Amadi Rowland Chinedu AbstractThe court is the creation of law; same also are its processes and procedures. Therefore every event of the court shall be as provided the creating law hence; anything orchestrated the court antithetical with the dictates of the creating law amounts to irregularity. This paper x-rayed the foregoing through the …
Noise nuisance and religious freedom: balancing religious activities and religious freedom when activities of religious houses bring discomfort to the neighourhood
Ekhorutomwen Gabriel Ekhator Abstract Noise pollution is one of the fastest growing environmental concerns in the world. Noise is not healthy for human beings. Noise from religious activities in Nigeria has become a peculiar and predominant menace suffered quietly people. Nigeria is a country with one of the largest number of churches and relatively …
AfCFTA: the role of law and policy in driving competitiveness for Nigerian businesses
Amaefule Uchechukwu Ernest Introduction Laws and policies are the life-blood for building a competitive business sector in any country. For there to be a thriving business environment, there should be far-reaching and viable laws and policies to regulate business activities in order to promote competitiveness and efficiency in the business environment. The competitive and burgeoning …
A critique of the role of the judiciary in deepening democracy and the Rule of Law in Nigeria adjudicating on political matters
P.E Idahosa esq. AbstractThe age-long principle of “separation of powers” allocates the governmental functions of law-making, enforcement/execution and interpretation respectively to the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary as organs of the state. This age-long doctrine as found in very many legal systems equally operates in Nigeria virtue of sections 4, 5 and 6 …
The social media bill: an avenue to protect the online safety of Nigerians
Uchechukwu Ernest Amaefule & Asomugha Ugonna Introduction The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the 5th of November, 2019 introduced the Anti-Social Media Bill (hereinafter referred to as the ‘bill’)to criminalize the use of the social media in peddling false or malicious information. The original title of the bill is Protection from Falsehood …
A world at the brink of hostilities: striking a balance between international law and international politics
Ugonna F. Asomugha Introduction The world over the years has been met with several hostilities which have threatened the territorial sanctity and sovereignty of States in the international scene. Most of these hostilities have been carried out the very developed States often referred to as ‘world powers’ who run roughshod on less …
Non-discrimination as an overarching principle of modern human rights law
Uchenna C. Amaefule Introduction Non-discrimination has been described as the ‘equal treatment of people in equal position and treating as unequal those in unequal position’. The opposite of non-discrimination is discrimination. Black Law’s Dictionary defines discrimination both as using a law to confer privileges on people or denying them same based on race, age, sex …
An Approach to Cross-Examination
Emmanuel Ikedinobi Introduction The concept of Cross examination, like most concepts of law defies the art of absolute comprehension. For me, it is loaded with apparent contradictions that tend to negate its true objectives. But if one is equipped with the rules and principles— constant practice is an added advantage too—one may become a true …
Law as a social medicine: a case of law abuse, addiction, and overdose in Nigeria
Ooreoluwa. O Agbede Abstract Discussions of the utility of the laws in Nigeria are not novel amongst scholars, lawyers, law students, and political scientists in Nigeria. Laws are generally agreed to serve multifarious purposes including goals parallel to medicine in man. The way Medicine has functions which vary from preventive, curative, and rehabilitative, so also …