The essence of creation of man in any environment is to interact, relate and have dealings with each other, in these relationships, certain level of moral standards is expected to be maintained which has necessitated the need for a guiding of conduct. Hence, the introduction of the law which is regarded as rules, and principles set out in order to streamline the activities of man with each other. Natural law theory emphasizes that, law has a divine or supernatural origin and for human laws... read more

The traditional focus of International Law has been upon the rights and obligations of states while International Criminal Law regulates the conduct of individuals and also punishes those who commit heinous and barbaric crimes against others. The most prevalent of these crimes include genocide, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. After the end of World War II, the Allies tried Nazi leaders responsible for the massacre to demonstrate that such would not be permitted i... read more

According to some authors, the meaning of trust as a legal concept is traceable to the moral connotation of the term which eventually informed its jurisprudential basis. Literally, trust means confidence reposed in others. It was this moral obligation that was eventually developed into a legal concept by the English chancery court and it became part of the Nigerian legal jurisprudence through statutory enactments, its administration regulated by established principles of equity and statutes. In ... read more

The electoral process is a total process that includes registration of voters, identifying the political parties to be voted for, voting, counting of votes, and declaration of election results. This process is the foundation of civil societies. A strong civil society is vital and needed to serve as the bedrock of a stable democracy. It represents the reservoir of resources -- political, economic, cultural, and moral -- to complement and, when necessary, to check the power of the state. A dynamic... read more

There is no law that says the plaintiff or the prosecution must bring a million witnesses or evidence to court before he can succeed in his case. A court can convict on a single witness. A case is not decided by the numbers of witnesses, single credible convincing evidence is enough to convict in a case but there are some exceptions. The exceptions refer to by this learned mean the circumstances where corroboration will be required before any judge can decide his case. Although a judge can convi... read more

Law can be defined as the body of rule designed or formulated to guide human actions or conducts which are enforced among the members of a given society, the breach of which attract sanctions. However, in spite of the ambiguity created in defining law and failure to reach universally acceptable definition of the term law. Therefore, it is most pertinent to examine the meaning of law from the different schools. For instance the natural school lead by Thomus Acquina, he sees law as what is fair, ... read more

Man over the years has metamorphosed both physically and in ideas. This progressive undeniable dynamism in human nature has made it quit vital that man must be creative and not just that, but also innovative to satisfy his ever increasing unsuitable wants, thereby prompting some legal installation to this effect. This piece of work is propelled toward examining the creative work of man vis-Ã -vis the way he can be protected against any undue and unwarranted encroachment on his creative ability ... read more

Every economy is made up of a multitude of economic units and agents. Here are individuals, households, different forms, firms and the central authority. To carry on with its economic activities, it needs funds. These units engaged in production., distribution or consumption may require from other agents the service of their facilities of goods and services. Specialization and minute elivison of labour in modern economy have led to firms specializing in different ways. Some of these firms de... read more

The world is a global village. It is due to the global state of the world that bedsore becomes such an organic economic activity aimed at producing goods and services. In this light of this organic nature of business, it constantly changes with improvement in science and technology. Business man and women have seen the need to also change their mode of carrying out business activities. In order to keep abrest with the current practice and to effectively face the constant and new challenges exp... read more

Ever since, tedious mathematical problems in the organization is not a simple one, that is to say, the process can be said to involve a lot of procedures or protocols which ranges from insertion of figures for tedious calculation, processing of numbers and retrieval of errors. However, because of this, there is the need to accomplish an extensive research to discover the intricacies involved in the entire process. So the researcher decided to embark on this work design and implementation of a si... read more

Banking in Nigeria is said to have a long history since Nigeria become independent in 1960. According to history in 1872, the Africa Banking Co-operative Stated her operation in Lagos, Nigeria. The Operation of cooperation was transferred to the Bank of British of West Africa. However, as the populations of Nigeria citizens begin to increase the Banking System begin to encounter some predicaments due to the manual mode of banking operation. The document in technology made it possible for bank... read more

The Internet has become integrated into our lives as an important, if not very essential tool for information and communication (Fallows, 2005). The large quantity of information available online combined with heavy reliance on the Internet by information seekers raise issues of the credibility or quality of information found online. Credibility in this context refers to the believability or reliability of some information or its source (Hovland, Janis, s& Kelley, 1953). A long history of resear... read more

Since the overthrown of barter as a form of transaction in the history of mankind, transactions usually require the interchange of goods or services for a comparable abstract value such as money. On a daily basis, a large number of transactions are initiated by a wide range of economic actors in a given economic system. Every transactions, whether they include the procurement of products, monetary resources or services have two main settlement elements which are: the delivery of the products or ... read more

The media have been undergoing transformations from one phase to another since its inception. As the generations have evolved over the years, people have been able to access the media in many different ways such as television, newspaper and internet due to technological advancement (Heather, 2011). These evolving technologies continue to drive the development of the mass media. The media have been in existence since humanity has been attempting to develop methods of communication and extending t... read more

Result computation is an integral part of the running of an institution of learning, this is because the output of the computation reveals what a student is worth “academically” over a period of his or her stay in that institution. Universities often adopt and integrate a system of evaluation therefore issues related to result and it computation cannot be handled with levity as this goes a long way in shaping a student prospect of finding a career in the long run. Nowadays, the computer ... read more

The role of information in our societies today cannot be overemphasized. This is due to rapid growth in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICTs). As it is popularly said that knowledge is power and knowledge cannot be separated from information, infact information is the basic necessity of maximally harness the factors of production (Khalid 2013). Also Ezeh (2013) confirmed in his opinion that information remains one of the basic needs of life. Nnadi (2012) defined agricult... read more

According to Kleppner (cited in Okpoko, 2008, p.7), the practice of advertising is as old as man. The urge to advertise seems to be part of human nature. The oldest method of advertising is by town crying. It became the earliest medium of announcement in England in 1100AD. William Caxton, an early English printer made advertising history in 1478 when he printed a handbill now regarded as the first known printed English advertisement, which advertised the book he had printed (Kleppner, 2002, cite... read more

From the perspective of Craig (2000), contemporary development in journalistic reporting related to innovation in technology inevitably attracts interest. This means that the rise of digital technology, the convergence of media into multi-media formats and the ubiquity of the internet are focal points for contemplations about recent changes in journalism and possible future direction. According to Belmaker (2003), say with the introduction of smart-phone technology in news gathering, has been... read more

THE EFFECT OF LANGUAGE OF PROPAGANDA ON PERSUADING VOTERS IN NIGERIA: A STUDY OF ADAMAWA STATE

PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF MANAGING STUDENT HOTELS IN NIGERIA