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ABSTRACT War  is  gradually  taking  the  front  burner  in  international  politics.  In  some  case peaceful resolution of a crisis is possible and fully exploited  to achieve  peace and order in a state. However, where such attempt to resolve crisis fails, skirmishes and clashes  may  snowball  into  war.  The  impact  of  war  on  human  population  has invariably been sanguinary, devastating and catastrophic. Sometimes, the population of a nation  is completely extirpated ...

ABSTRACT This work identified non-performing loans as a major contributor to banking crisis. Albeit many loans were secured with mortgages, recovering them proved impossible owing to many factors which militate against realization of mortgage securities. This work therefore examined these factors that hinder realization of mortgage securities and proffered solutions to them in order to enhance debt recovery. The work discussed the canons of good lending; the factors that lenders ...

ABSTRACT Arbitration  is  a  private  consensual  means  of  resolving  disputes  and  is  the  most institutionalized  of  all  the  Alternative  Dispute  Resolution  (ADR)  mechanisms.  The principal Act for regulating Arbitration and Conciliation in Nigeria is the Arbitration and Conciliation  Act (Nigerian Act) enacted in 1988. The  enactment of the Nigerian Act followed  the  United  Nations  Commission  on  International  Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model  Law  on  International   Commercial   Arbitration,   1985  and  the  New ...

ABSTRACT War  is  gradually  taking  the  front  burner  in  international  politics.  In  some  case peaceful resolution of a crisis is possible and fully exploited  to achieve  peace and order in a state. However, where such attempt to resolve crisis fails, skirmishes and clashes  may  snowball  into  war.  The  impact  of  war  on  human  population  has invariably been sanguinary, devastating and catastrophic. Sometimes, the population of a nation  is completely extirpated ...

ABSTRACT Multinational  Oil Corporations  (MOCs)  are oil prospecting  and mining  industries with different subsidiaries  in joint venture agreement with State owned Oil Companies  in different regions of the world. In Nigeria, the activities of these MOCs are most prominent in oil producing communities in the Niger Delta Region. The MOCs operating in Nigeria have impaired the environment of the host communities through negative oil exploration activities resulting in oil pollution ...

ABSTRACT The evolution of the concept of corporate criminal liability of corporations is characterized by relentless struggles of the judiciary to overcome the problem of assigning criminal blame to fictional entities. Initially, a corporation was considered to be an entity devoid of a person in the strict sense; therefore, criminal guilt was considered to be quite difficult to establish in cases of aberrations of criminal nature by it.  The principle ...

ABSTRACT Considering  the importance  of arbitration in the settlement  of commercial  disputes  world over, this work has its focus on the effect of time limitation in the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in Nigeria being that the current legal position in Nigeria on the limitation period for enforcement of arbitral awards appears to be narrow and too limited compared to what obtains in other parts of the world especially in ...

ABSTRACT This   research   work   examined   the   enforceability   of   human   rights   norms   in environmental protection. And critically reviews the functionality of human rights law in environmental protection and how it can be made to drive enforceability in order to reduce the impact of environmental stressors.  The work treats the legal literature and theory of Environmental  law and  Human  rights  –and   factors  of enforcement  of human rights law in Nigeria .It establishes ...

ABSTRACT This study is a cross sectional study aimed at evaluating practice and determinants of child hood immunization in Idoha. This study is focused on identifying why children don’t receive immunization, and factor that encourage or deter immunization practice in the community. A total of 400 respondents were systematically selected from five villages in the community. Analysis  showed  that372  (98.2%)  of babies  had BCG.    354 (93.2%)  had  OPV and 348 ...

ABSTRACT It is the practice in most legal systems and jurisdictions for litigants in cases of fraud, misrepresentation, mistake etc to maintain that documents which they purportedly signed did not represent  the  exact  character, nature or content  which  they believed  the documents contained. Again, illiterate contracting parties often thumb printed on documents which in some instances are incorrectly read over to them as being correct whereas they may not be. ...

ABSTRACT Smuggling  involves  the illegal  importation  or exportation  of goods  either  to evade  the  correct  payment  of  duty  or  to  undermine  government  policy  on existing prohibition regulations.   The major effects of smuggling  include huge revenue   loss,   money   laundering,   exposure   of  local   industries   to  unfair competition with their foreign counterparts and insecurity of life and property. The  principal  legislation  for  combating  smuggling  in Nigeria  is the  Customs and  Excise  Management  Act  ...

ABSTRACT The United Nations which was founded in 1945 after the Second World War reflects humanity’s aspiration for peace; security and progress. Thus, one of the cardinal points of the preamble of the Charter of the United Nations is that members of the organization resolve to pool their resources together to actualize certain objectives. These objectives include inter alia; the practice of tolerance; to live in peace with one another ...

ABSTRACT The  escalation of criminal activities  in recent  times  in Nigeria  has  necessitated the invention of a new approach to crime control and prevention. Ordinarily, the police are saddled with the responsibility of crime prevention and control. However, the high rate of violent  crimes,  political thuggery,  kidnapping,  bombing,  vandalism,  prostitution and corruption has led to the adoption of community policing strategy in most localities to supplement the efforts of the ...

ABSTRACT This work identified non-performing loans as a major contributor to banking crisis. Albeit many loans were secured with mortgages, recovering them proved impossible owing to many factors which militate against realization of mortgage securities. This work therefore examined these factors that hinder realization of mortgage securities and proffered solutions to them in order to enhance debt recovery. The work discussed the canons of good lending; the factors that lenders ...

ABSTRACT The performances of corporate entities in Nigeria leave much to be desired. Due to poor performances,  corporate  entities  have  lost some  of the  confidence  which  they  hitherto enjoyed. This loss of confidence has led to the collapse of several companies. The major reasons for company failure are mismanagement and fraudulent practices by key players in the corporate terrain, as well as the inability of the in-built monitoring devices to ...

ABSTRACT The debate about whether economic and social rights can be or should be adjudicated and enforced by courts or other bodies in Nigeria has been on-going since the 1960s when the rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) were divided into two separate covenants. One contained economic, social and cultural rights; while civil and political rights were set out in the other. In the light of this, ...

Abstract Safety is one of the most important needs of man today. Safety at workplace on the other hand is paramount and cannot in any way be ignored. Many vibrant and resourceful person have lost their precious lives and some have suffered permanent and temporal incapacities just because safety measures were not put in place.  The June 3rd  2012 ill- fated Dana Airline crash in Lagos which claimed a lot ...

Abstract The geographical entity now known as and called Nigeria was formally occupied by about 250 independent nations before the advent of the Europeans into the West Coast of Africa. These nations had their distinct customs and laws, which they brought on board Nigeria. These customs and laws differ from place to place.  Customary law arbitration was and still remains a widely accepted option for settling disputes, particularly amongst people ...

ABSTRACT The quest for an international body authorised to regulate the conduct of states in international law and  prevent  war  and  aggression was  long  and  arduous; and  was seemingly achieved with the establishment of the League of Nations in 1919. International euphoria was short-lived however, as the League’s existence was truncated by World War 2 following which the United Nations (UN) was created in 1945 to maintain international peace and ...

ABSTRACT The National Industrial Court (hereinafter referred to as the NIC) was established in 1976 by the Trade Disputes Decree No 7 of 1976 with jurisdiction to settle trade disputes, the interpretation  of  collective   agreements  and   matters  connected  therewith.  There  were identifiable lapses in the status, powers and jurisdiction of the NIC that impacted negatively on its operations; the jurisdiction of the Court which was expressed to be exclusive was ...