

HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS IN A PANDEMIC
PROTECT PEOPLE IN CUSTODY AND IN INSTITUTIONS COVID-19, like other infectious diseases, poses a higher risk to populations that live in close proximity to each other for example in Ibadan or those who live in Batcher in Northern Nigeria no thanks to a poor urban and regional planning system in Nigeria. This disproportionately affects older
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HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS IN A PANDEMIC
Although sexual and gender-based violence is not uncommon in times of war or emergency as currently, we are fighting a war of survival from the virulent Covid-19 virus. The SGBV actors could be police or joint security forces engaged to enforce restriction orders by Federal and State Governments or it could be spouses who are
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Nigeria’s Exploitation of its Exclusive Economic Zone: Environmental Concerns – Amina Mahmud Jega
The laws regulating the use and exploration of the seas, ranging from internal to external waters of states have undergone centuries of evolution, from doctrines of the sea as res communis promulgated by Grotius in the seventeenth century, to a move toward protection of national interests exemplified in the work of RR Churchill and AV
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HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS IN A PANDEMIC
Although sexual and gender-based violence is not uncommon in times of war or emergency as currently and globally, we are fighting a war of survival from the virulent virus. The SGBV actors could be police or joint security force engaged to enforce restrictions order by FG and State Governments or it could be spouses who
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COVID-19: A CASE FOR THE SUSPENSION OF STATUTE OF LIMITATION LAW
By Victor Opatola This legal analysis is a call on the Nigeria National Assembly and other State House of Assembly to enact into law the suspension of the application of Statute of Limitation Law. This is due to the fact that interpretation of Statute of Limitation is strict and even at equity the ground of
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COVID-19: IMPACT ON NIGERIA’S ECONOMY
By Temple Ezebuike The world’s activities have been disrupted by the Covid-19 outbreak and this has affected conferences, legal gatherings, sporting events, political rallies and economic transactions. Economically, the global supply chain substantially relies on production from China and the disruption in China thus affects almost all economies and markets. As a result, American, European
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Former Director-General, Nigerian Law School, Dr. Kole Abayomi: Transition from Mortality to Immortality
The former Director-General of the Nigerian Law School, Dr Kole Abayomi SAN, died in the early hours of today in London at the age of Seventy-Nine (79) years. His death is no doubt a big loss to the legal community and of course to his great family. Dr. Kole Abayomi SAN was called to the
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The Legal Implications for Businesses and Companies in Nigeria in the Pandemic Period
By Opatola Victor Esq. Recently, the world has been hit with the rapid spread of the Covid-19 virus (Corona Virus) and Nigerian citizens are currently at an elevated risk of contracting this virus. With many scientists all over the world being tasked with finding a cure to this widespread epidemic, this brief article dabbles into
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CORONA VIRUS: ENFORCEMENT OF LOCKDOWN AND BRUTALISATION OF CITIZENS
It is no longer news that on the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, the Federal Government of Nigeria and various State Governments put in place some drastic measures to prevent the spread of the life-threatening scourge. The danger posed to humanity Nigerian citizens inclusive, by the ravaging pandemic has been taken very seriously by governments
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PRECEDENT UNBOUND: SUBSTANTIAL OR STRICT COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 13 OF THE OATHS ACT?
Trial and appellate courts have witnessed a barrage of objections and/or appeals premised on non-compliance with Section 13 of the Oaths Act, Cap. O1, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 (“the Act”) and the form set out in the First Schedule to the Act. The usual suspects – affidavits, witness statements on oath and
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