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 …
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 …