THE ROLE OF TRADITIONAL RULERS – SANUSI THE GENIUS: A CASE STUDY (2) “The time-hallowed tradition was bastardized by the British Colonial Masters in order to weaken the authority of the monarch, abolish slave trade, extend British Protectorate, and promote Royal Niger Company commercial enterprise”. LAST week, I commenced a discussion on the concept of traditional...Read More

BY J. O. AROWOSEGBE MAY 2013 Abstract This article examines the nature and extent of federal legislative powers under the Nigerian Constitution. Federal legislative powers examined are of three species. The first species consists of matters in the exclusive legislative list while the second derives from the concurrent legislative list to the extent prescribed therein....Read More

Kazeem O. Olaniyan, Esq Lecturer, Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan Nigeria   ABSTRACT Nigeria is a federation of 36 States, operating a presidential system of government with three levels of government namely, federal, state and local government. In terms of the Nigerian Constitution these tiers of government are...Read More

By: Dr Jimmy O. Chijioke and Olufemi Abifarin Introduction Initially, emphasis by writers was on domestic violence against children or what is popularly known as child abuse, child labour and child trafficking  but emphasis is now shifted to domestic violence against women.  So much energy and resources have been dissipated on campaign against domestic violence...Read More

Oyeniyi Ajigboye, Lecturer, Public and International Law Department College of Law, Afe Babalola University Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria   Abstract Health issues are challenges faced by the rich and the poor. This is also applicable to citizens of all nations. As such, over a period of time, there are international conventions, treaties, and agreements...Read More

Abstracts The Nigerian National Human Rights Commission like any other National Human Rights Commission needs evaluations/assessment in order to know, with precision, whether or not the purpose for it was established has been achieved. The Commission has been evaluated by writers on human rights. However, this paper hypothesise that criteria adopted in evaluating the Commission...Read More

Clement C. Chigbo Senior Lecturer, College of Law Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria.   Abstract Land is elemental. It is where life begins and it is where life ends. Land provides the physical substratum for human activity; it is the essential base of all social and commercial interaction. The significance of land in human affairs...Read More

ABSTRACT One of the primary purposes of Public Law is the continuation of the effective working of the public service, because acts by administrators must be taken with the right motives using the right procedures.  This article unearths the principles applied in the common law and civil law systems in determining the validity or invalidity...Read More

By Clement Odoje Department of Linguistics and African Languages University of Ibadan And Solomon O. Akinola Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Afe Babalola University, P.M.B. 5454, Ado Ekiti  Abstract The challenges of Machine Translation (MT) and in particular Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) have been explored and categorized. But little is known about African languages which...Read More

By: Fabamise Sesan INTRODUCTION Nigerian rules of recognition are based essentially on common law rules. Unsatisfied foreign judgements often give rise to problems of private international law. For it happens frequently that a plaintiff who has obtained a judgement in a country where the judgement debtor has insufficient or no property to satisfy the judgement...Read More