This study will be significant to policy makers on the need to revisit the Gun Control Act in regard to curbing the unnecessary possession of arms by herdsmen without registration or license which makes carrying out of violent crimes easy.

This study will be relevant to the general public. Specifically to policy makers, it will redirect their focus on establishing laws to curb hate crime.

This study will be relevant to the general public. Specifically to policy makers, it will redirect their focus on establishing laws to curb hate crime.

Tobacco use in whatever form has been recognised as a source of illnesses and preventable deaths all over the world for decades. Nigeria arguably has a low smoking prevalence rate in the world, with an estimated of her population smoking. This pales in comparison to other countries such as Papua New Guinea, Chile, and the Russian Federation, where smoking prevalence rates are comparatively high. When compared to alcohol prevalence, smoking prevalence is low.

The Constitution of Nigeria clearly ensures the separation of powers as an underlining principle of the Nigerian governmental system. Separation of powers allows typical division of branches of government into a legislature, an executive, and a judiciary. It can be contrasted with the fusion or combination of powers like in the case of a parliamentary system, where the executive and legislature sometimes parts of the judiciary are unified, for the purpose of governance. Separation of powers as ... read more

Industrial harmony is very important both at the public and private sectors because of the negative impact of disputes in the labour sector. Trade dispute, when it occurs could be a very serious issue especially when it is allowed to degenerate into an industrial action. Few trade disputes get reported but the ones that are recorded help the government to get a proper analysis for the evaluation and policy purposes. Though quite a large number of disputes occurs without resort to strike, however... read more

The contract of employment is a specie of contract, and is Therefore governed by general principles of the law of contract, consensusad item, Being a kind of simple contract, contract of employment must also satisfy the elements of a valid contract. The vitiating factors are also applicable to it. What distinguishes a contract of employment from a simple contract, which chitty defines as a promise or a set of promises which the law will enforce1, is the degree of control that one party has over ... read more

to point out the reasons behind the non enforceability of some judgments and court orders and the way out, and to analyze the procedures for the enforcement of judgments and orders, in the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and challenges. The research methodology adopted in this research is the doctrinal method also known as library oriented research wherein recourse are made to statutes, case law, conventions, textbooks, journals, literature, e.t.c. Teleological research is als... read more

mechanism in addition to litigation so as to restore peace and tranquility among the Muslim Ummah. Katsina State being one of the 36 States of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has inherited the deeply rooted application of Shariah in its judicial system from the then Sokoto Caliphate.1 Katsina State has also in the year 2000 desired the formal reintroduction or 1 Suleiman, I. A Revolution in History: The Jihad of Usman Dan Fodio, Mansell, London (1986), p. 26; Suleiman, I. The Isla... read more

More recently, allegations of the possession of weapons of mass destruction, protection of democracy amongst others have variously been listed as grounds upon which the sovereignty of a state was tempered with. These new issues have no closed category and have variously threatened emerging states of its survival as this concept no longer possesses the limitations which it earlier had. More also civil unrest’s and factional fighting as in the case of Liberia, Si

Women are connected to other human beings through the biologically based activities of pregnancy, breast-feeding and heterosexual intercourse¹. However, throughout history, women have had to struggle against direct and indirect barriers to their self-development and their full participation in social, political, economic and cultural activities of different societies. Discrimination against women starts at birth, in the discriminatory

Quincy Wright, Quoted in International committee of Red Cross, ICRC “Answers to your Question” Published by ICRC, P 9. The Code of Hammurabi, 1754 BC. Lieber, Francis (Professor at Columbia College New York) at the request of Abraham Lincoln, drew up a series of instructions for union soldiers during the American Civil War. Dunant Henry ”A memory of Solferino”, (November 1862) P.7 ICRC International Humanitarian Law “Answers to your Question” ICRC p.4 Geneva Conve... read more

fulfillment, self realisation, love and peace, compassion, serenity, comfort and hope2. Allah describes marriage and marital relationships between man and woman as one of his great bounties on mankind for which they should be grateful and they should demonstrate their appreciation of his bounties by being God-fearing. Allah says in the Quran- Mankind, fear your lord, who created you from a single soul, created of like nature its spouse from a single soul, and from the pair of them sc... read more

akings to earn a living. The main objective of this work therefore, is to provide an appraisal on the impact of gender equality on women’s right to work in Islamic law with a view to highlight the correlation between gender justice and applicable limitations to women’s right to work outside their matrimonial home under Islamic law. It is contended that the “permissibility” which is the legal position of the right to work shall not be allowed to overshadow the obligatory responsibility wh... read more

arising from their act6. These customary laws of various communities have been enforced long before the advent of colonial rule. Thus Amokaye7 refers to this period as the first stage of development of environmental law in Nigeria. The introduction of common law principles and statutory laws by the colonial administration to regulate pollution activities marked the beginning of the second era. Under the common law principles, which forms part of Nigerian legal system it provides ... read more

arket, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is the apex regulatory body of the Nigerian Capital Market, while the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) regulates the Insurance Sector. Capital Market, in simple terms, is a market for raising long-term funds. It is that segment of the financial market which represents the intricate intermediation functions and processes of a network of individuals, institutions and financial instruments between the users and providers... read more

1999) S1 1999/78 provides that every prisoner must be provided as soon as possible after his inception into prison and in any case within 24 hours, with information in writing about those provisions of the Prison Rules and other matters which are necessary for him/her to know, including his earnings, privileges and the proper method of making requests and complaints. This is not so under the Nigerian Prison Legislation. There is an ill-conceived notion that prison inmates have no ... read more

bjectives must not be made the object of direct attack, they should be accorded necessary protection against the dangerts arising from military operation, such as indiscriminate attack that is expected to cause incidental less of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects or a combination thereof which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated. c

med conflict between nations, people and individuals. From earliest times, men have been pre-occupied with the problem of how to control the effect of violence and its attendant human sufferings with varying degrees of success. For example, prior to the middle of the 19th Century, agreements to protect victims of wars were of more transient character, binding only, upon the contracting parties thereto and based upon strict reciprocity. In reality, they constituted purely milita... read more

THE ROLE OF INTER-GOVERNMENTAL ACTION GROUP AGAINST MONEY LAUNDERING AND TERRORIST FINANCING IN WEST AFRICA (GIABA) IN COMBATING MONEY LAUNDERING AND TERRORIST FINANCING UNDER THE ECOWAS COMMUNITY