LAW PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 881. A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SECTION 144 OF THE 1999 CONSTITUTION: MUSA YAR’ADUA...

  » ABSTRACT On the 23rd of November, 2009, President Musa Yar’Adua left Nigeria for treatment abroad in an undisclosed country. For the next 80 days, nobody heard from or saw the federal republic of Nigeria. Even the vice president, Goodluck Jonathan, could not give any reasonable report of the president’s whereabouts. The activities of the federal executive council became suddenly shroud...Continue Reading »

  60 pages |  546 engagements | 

• 882. CONCEPT OF BAIL

  » The concept of bail vis à vis enforcement of fundamental rights in Nigeria has recently taken a centre stage of discussion amongst jurists and students alike. In a nutshell, bail is a security for attendance in court from commencement of proceedings to judgment.1 In determining whether to grant or refuse bail, the determinant factors appear to depend upon the peculiar facts of every case, v...Continue Reading »

  75 pages |  729 engagements | 

• 883. A CRITIQUE OF JEREMY BENTHAM’S IDEA OF LAW

  » INTRODUCTION The concept of law has always been controversial leading to all kinds of theorizing. This has constituted a problem to an easy understanding of law because law has been viewed and interpreted differently by different thinkers. Foremost in the understanding of law are issues such as correct interpretation, judicial precedence, justice and fairness, punishment and its limits, the rule o...Continue Reading »

  60 pages |  491 engagements | 

• 884. A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF ELECTION LAWS IN NIGERIA

  » 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, cul...Continue Reading »

  60 pages |  515 engagements | 

• 885. A LEGAL APPRAISAL OF THE ELECTRIC POWER SECTOR REFORMS IN NIGERIA

  » ABSTRACT Nigeria’s electric power sector requires substantial reform if the country’s economic development and poverty alleviation programme is to be realized. Currently, the country faces serious energy crisis due to declining electricity generation from domestic power plants which are basically dilapidated, obsolete, and in an appalling state of disrepair, reflecting the poor mainten...Continue Reading »

  75 pages |  527 engagements | 

• 886. MALICIOUS PROSECUTION UNDER THE NIGERIAN LAW

  » ABSTRACT This work was preoccupied with the examination of malicious prosecution under the Nigerian law. It was pointed out that malicious prosecution is an abuse of the process of the court by wrongfully setting the law in motion on a criminal charge. It is the malicious institution of unsuccessful criminal or bankruptcy or liquidation proceedings against another without reasonable or probable ca...Continue Reading »

  75 pages |  607 engagements | 

• 887. WILL A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS UNDER COMMON AND ISLAMIC LAWS

  » ABSTRACT The conceptual divergence in respect of the formation of a valid will under both Islamic and common laws will be examined and discussed. Starting from introduction which will introduce us to the general message of the work. The chapters therein have been divided into five. Chapter one deals with the introduction as mentioned above, and chapter two will talk on pre and post Islamic era of ...Continue Reading »

  70 pages |  431 engagements | 

• 888. DO JUDGES MAKE LAW (A CURSORY LOOK AT THE RECURRING QUESTION)

  » GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.0.0: INTRODUCTION Law is central to national governance and a nation can succinctly be described as a group of persons within a defined geographical confine and guided by given set of laws with a recognized governmental structure to make, execute and interpret the given set of laws. The whole idea of governance is circumvented around the idea of law hence the governmental fu...Continue Reading »

  95 pages |  1,121 engagements | 

• 889. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CONFLICT SITUATIONS AND CHOICE OF LAWS IN THE NIGE...

  » GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.0.0: INTRODUCTION The project looks into the problems which arise when one legal system has to deal with the legal rules of another in matters of private rights. More particularly, because the ultimate test of the recognition of foreign law is what courts do about it. This work is also concerned with how a court, sitting in one country treats a case of private litigation in ...Continue Reading »

  60 pages |  585 engagements | 

• 890. A HOLISTIC APPRAISAL OF THE CONCEPT OF TRUST UNDER THE NIGERIAN JURISPRUDENCE

  » Abstract 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 thr...Continue Reading »

  60 pages |  632 engagements | 

• 891. AN APPRAISAL OF THE COURTS AND CONSTITUTIONALISM IN NIGERIA:A DECADE OF DEMOCRAT...

  » ABSTRACT Democracy is undoubtedly the commonest system of government mostly practiced in virtually all the countries of the world because it ensures the observance of people‟s rights and freedom. It is however basically characterized by three independent arms of government namely; the Legislative, Executive and the Judicial arm of government. While the Legislature is responsible for making laws ...Continue Reading »

  60 pages |  465 engagements | 

• 892. AN EXAMINATION OF LAWS AND PROCEDURES REGULATING TRADE DISPUTE IN NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.0.0: INTRODUCTION TO STUDY 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 ...Continue Reading »

  60 pages |  504 engagements | 

• 893. EGBASE V ORIAREGHAN(1985); EFFECT OF NON EST FACTUM ON CONTRACT

  » ABSTRACT Man is by nature a social animal. An individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human…Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of the society, is either a beast or a god.This quote by Aristotle poignantly points out the fact that interactions with...Continue Reading »

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• 894. CONFESSIONAL STATEMENT UTILITY IN CRIMINAL TRIALS

  » A confession, proved as an exception to the rule against hearsay, is admissible as evidence of the truth of the matters adverse to the accused contained therein, if relevant to any matter in issue. It may, if the court thinks right, be relied upon to convict, even in the absence of other evidence. As Erie .J. said in R .v. Baldry1 “a confession well proved is the best evidence that can be pr...Continue Reading »

  65 pages |  518 engagements | 

• 895. OIL SPILLAGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION AN INDICTMENT TO HUMAN RIGHT AND ENVI...

  » TABLE OF STATUTES Associated Gas Re injection Act, Cap 26, LFN 1990 40, 48, 65, 67 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999. 38, 39, 47, 55 60, 62 65, 104 Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of waste and other matters 1992 73, 86 U.N. Convention on the High Sea, 1958 74, 86 Environmental Impact Assessment Act, 1992 40, 43 45,48, 69 72 European Environmental Age...Continue Reading »

  65 pages |  1,032 engagements | 

• 896. A SURVEY ON THE AFTERCARE SERVICE AND REINTEGRATION OF EX-CONVICTS IN NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 Background to the Study 1.2 Statement of the Problem 1.3 Purpose of the Study The purpose of this study is to examine the aftercare service and reintegration of ex convicts in Nigeria, with particular reference to Akwa Ibom State. Specifically, the objectives of the study are: To examine the obstacles to reintegrating ex convicts in Akwa Ibom State. To ascertain the state of reform...Continue Reading »

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• 897. THE MANAGEMENT OF BANKS AND THE RIGHT OF SHAREHOLDERS UNDER THE ASSET MANAGEMENT...

  » ABSTRACT The Asset management corporation of Nigeria Act seeks to establish the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria for the purpose of efficiently resolving the non – performing loan assets of banks in Nigeria and for related matters. Within the years under review of this study, the banking industry, as well as Nigeria economy was characterized by unprecedented financial and economic cri...Continue Reading »

  60 pages |  570 engagements | 

• 898. INVESTIGATE A SURVEY ON THE AFTERCARE SERVICE AND REINTEGRATION OF EX-CONVICTS I...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Laws are made in every society to regulate the behaviour of people and to ensure that individual live according to expectation of the society. However, crimes are committed in the society daily. Once convicted, criminals are imprisoned. The Nigeria prisons service is charged with the responsibility to keep convicts. It keeps custody, reform, reh...Continue Reading »

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• 899. PROTECTION AND REDRESS FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME IN NIGERIA: AN APPRAISAL OF THE ROLE...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study The pathetic circumstances of victims of crime in the world have been so worrisome that, Pino Alarcchi[1] once said, “We must agree amongst ourselves that we want a world where there will be no hiding place for the criminals … and where there will be adequate support for their victims”. The essence of the research is vividly c...Continue Reading »

  60 pages |  525 engagements | 

• 900. WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN AFRICAN CONSTITUTIONS: A DESIDERATUM OR A MERE FEMINIST UTOP...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study It would appear correct to say that the subject of women’s rights is one of the most contentious and seemingly nebulous aspects of human rights jurisprudence. The struggle for the recognition and enforcement of women’s rights spans through centuries and global borders; yet a lot of nations of the world still have reservations about t...Continue Reading »

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