BY: E.MBANG AKPAMBANG, LL.M; B.L; LECTURER, FACULTY OF LAW, EKITI STATE UNIVERSITY, ADO-EKITI, NIGERIA “…the Federal High Court shall have and exercise jurisdiction to the exclusion of any other court in civil causes and matters – (g) any Admiralty jurisdiction, including shipping and navigation on the River Niger or River Benue and their affluents and on such other inland waterway as may be designated by any enactment to be an...Read More
Slapper, G. & Kelly, D., English Law, 2nd ed. (Routledge, New York, 2006) 704 ABSTRACT The article examines remedies in environmental law cases in Nigeria, in the light of problems faced by aggrieved litigants. It posits that despite the fact that there is a plethora of remedies and reliefs which a party can obtain as a result of a successful law suit, the impact of such available remedies are not...Read More
Written by: IKECHUKWU BERNARD OKAFOR, LL.B, LL.M, B.L Introduction There is a saying that lawyers do the same work as medical doctors. While doctors attend to the ailing body of human beings, lawyers attend to their troubled souls – the troubled souls of litigants seeking to obtain justice or settle their disputes through the legal institution. It therefore follows that the court can be likened to a hospital and a...Read More
BY: Dr. Olokooba S.M, Dr. Olatoke J.O. & Ijaiya N.O.A Abstract In 2007, the Amnesty International Research Team conducted a research on prisons condition in Nigeria. In their report, they described the situation in the Nigerian prisons as “appealing”. In 2010, a similar research on the constraints to the enforcement of prisoners rights in some states in the North-Central part of Nigeria was conducted by one of this writer in...Read More
