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Umoh, P. U. "Precedent in Nigerian courts /." Enugu : Fourth Dimension Publ. Co, 2003. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/359674739.pdf.
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Obiokoye, Iruoma Onyinye. "Eradicating delay in the administration of justice in African courts: a comparative analysis of South African and Nigerian courts." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/942.
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"A well functioning judiciary is a central element of civil society. It is the sole adjudicator over the political, social and economic spheres. Judiciaries in many African countries suffer from backlogs, delays and corruption. In countries such as Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda, speedy resolution of disputes is becoming increasingly elusive. Although many African countries have constitutional provisions against delay, and have identified congestion, excessive adjournments, local legal culture and corruption as some of the major causes of delay, nevertheless, the problem continues to be a feature in African Courts. In Nigeria, the average period to commence and complete litigation is six to ten years. In some instances, the litigation period is even longer. For example, in the case of Ariori v. Muraimo Elemo proceedings commenced in October 1960 and took 23 years to reach the Supreme Court of Nigeria. In South Africa, despite many programs and projects in place to solve the problem, delay in the administration of justice is still a problem. Appraising the extent of the problem, Penuell Maduna addressing the National Judges Symposium stated: “The public is perturbed by substantial backlogs in the criminal courts and in finalising prosecutions...” Mindful of the increase of this problem, especially in view of the consequences it poses, this study perceives a need to eradicate delay in the administration of justice. Thus, this study analyses the problem of delay in Nigerian and South African Courts with a view to ascertaining the nature, extent and causes of delay in the two countries, and suggests possible solutions to the problem. South Africa and Nigeria were chosen because they have similar judicial systems and experience delays in judicial proceedings." -- Chapter 1.Prepared under the supervision of Mr. Abraham J. Hamman, Faculty of Law, University of Western Cape, South Africa
Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2005.
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Belgore, Y. "Problems with oil pollution injury litigation in the Nigerian legal system : can Nigerian litigants gain access to courts in England and the U.S.A.?" Thesis, University of Dundee, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.547856.
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Olokotor, Ndudi. "Judicial attitudes to enforcement of transnational awards under the New York Convention : a critical assessment of the English and Nigerian courts." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2017. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/24950/.
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Abusharaf, Adila Mustafa. "Transnational litigation of local oil pollution damages, a study of environmental tort claims by Ecuadorian, Nigerian and Sudanese oil communities against multinational oil companies before the courts of the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ53772.pdf.
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Badejogbin, Rebecca Emiene. "A comparative analysis of the court structures in Nigeria and South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24102.
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This research is centered on carrying out a comparison between the current court systems (with particular reference to structures) in Nigeria and South Africa. A pertinent question that comes to bear in relation to court systems, is whether the current court structure in South Africa should be adopted by Nigeria? The response to this question is vital for the avoidance of the adoption of a court structure by Nigeria basically for the reason of its seeming successful implementation in South Africa without giving credence to other factors like the salient distinctiveness of their experiences and the legal systems that operate in both countries which I addressed in the dissertation. In this dissertation, I specifically concentrated on the various courts currently adopted by each country. In chapters three and four, I indentified and examined all the courts in the current court structure of each country, their composition, role, jurisdictions, operations, and other related means of adjudication vis a vis tribunals, arbitrations and even the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. I carried out a comparative analysis in chapter five between the Nigerian and South African court systems with particular reference to the structures of the courts to indentify the strengths and weaknesses of each structure and the indirect and direct threatened reorganizations i.e the proposed reforms in the two countries and their likely effects and repercussions in the enhancement of justice delivery. Prior to looking at the structures of the courts, I generally looked at the role of the judiciary in both countries and their application of judicial concepts like independence of the judiciary, doctrine of judicial precedents and principles of natural justice. I briefly looked at the history of both legal systems and the evolution of their court structures, the current make up of each legal system, which includes their form of government, democratic set ups and the interrelatedness of each organ of government with the judiciary. The relevance of looking at these legal conceptions is merely to create a background understanding and the appreciation of the makeup and contents of the courts in both countries on which the research is centered. In carrying out a comparative analysis of the courts of these two countries I identified their similarities and differences and concluded by making findings and proposals towards a more effective court system for Nigeria. In my conclusion in chapter six, I made observations, suggestions and proffered solutions for the way forward towards achieving a more viable court structure for Nigeria by adopting some strong points from South African court structure.Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Layonu, Abiodun Ishola. "Tradition and modernity : the customary courts in Oyo State, Nigeria." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.638050.
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NWOSU, ONYEMA BEN. "L'analyse des couts d'enseignement dans l'etat d'imo au nigeria." Paris 7, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA070018.
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La plupart des pays africains, y compris le nigeria, ont augmente regulierement leurs depenses publiques d'education depuis leur independance. Mais pour la raison de la faible croissance economique et de la montee du chomage des diplomes dans la region, les ressources publiques allouees a l'enseignement sont generalement en baisse depuis la deuxieme moitie des annees 1970. Malgre la tendence generale a diminuer les depenses d'education, la croissance rapide d'effectifs scolaires dans l'etat d'imo du nigeria fait monter regulierement la part de l'education dans le budget de l'etat. La part de l'education dans le budget familial augmente aussi, mais tous les couts que les familles imputent a l'enseignement n'y appartiennent pas. Certains couts de l'enseignement ont l'incidence directe sur le produit de l'education. Ce sont les frais de scolarite, les depenses des materiels et d'equipements scolaires, les salaires, etc. Il y a aussi les couts indirects de l'education. Ce sont le temps consacre aux etudes, le manque a gagner de l'etudiant, le cout d'opportunite de la societe, etc. Le troisieme cout est ce qu'on appelle les couts annexes. Le probleme du financement de l'education dans l'etat d'imo remonte jusqu'a l'annee 1970, l'annee qu'on a mis fin a l'enseignement prive dans l'etat. L'annee 1976 a vu naitre le programme d'enseignement primaire gratuit. En 1978, le gouvernement federal du nigeria qui s'engageait a financer integralement ce programme est revenu sur sa decision. L'augmentation rapide d'effectifs scolaires provoquee par ce programme augmentait la charge a supporter par l'etat d'imo. Dans l'etat d'imo, la participation des entreprises au financement de l'education n'existe pratiquement pas. L'expansion du systeme d'enseignement a entraine l'augmentation des depenses d'education, 8% du budget de l'etat en 1970 et 20% du budget de 1983. Malgre l'augmentation en pourcentage du budget de l'etat d'imo alloue a l'education, le financement de l' enseignement se heurte contre le manque des fonds. Face a cette situation, l'etat d'imo a reintroduit les frais de scolarite en 1981. Cette penurie des fonds conduisait a la reduction des depenses en capital. Pour maintenir l'equilibre entre la disponibilite des fonds et les depenses d'education, il faut que l'etat supprime les subventions accordees aux etudiants, fasse appel aux fonds prives et ralentisse le flux d'etudiants a l'enseignement superieur.
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Nast, Heidi J. (Heidi Joanne). "Space, history and power : stories of spatial and social change in the palace of Kano, Northern Nigeria, circa 1500-1990." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=41055.
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The dissertation records changes in the Kano palace landscape between 1500 and 1990. Patriarchal practices that shaped the initial palace layout at vernacular domestic and state levels are outlined. Royal women were secluded and male slaves occupied public household domains, state strongholds. Later increases in eunuchs' and slave women's powers and spaces are also recorded. The demise of slave women's political realms and the rise of an autocratic and militaristic male state structure following the Fulani jihad of 1807 are then detailed. Lastly, the impact of British imperialism on the landscape of male and female slavery is presented. Because male slaves were placed publicly, they were the main receivers and negotiators of colonial change, and their spaces underwent the most forceful change.Throughout the analyses, landscapes are seen as politically created and communicative material structures. Examination of epistemological relations used in landscape analyses demonstrates important linkages between how field research is structured and relations of power.
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Babalakin, B. O. "The supreme court and constitutional developments in Nigeria (1960-1985)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.383050.
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Aladetola, Opeyemi. "Analysis of the Nigerian Supreme Court's constitutional duty regarding women's inheritance right under customary law." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24935.
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Customary law existed before the enactment of formal laws to govern the affairs of Nigerians. It started as behavioural norms that grew to be widely accepted by the community and became law. Inheritance rights are recognised under Nigerian customary law. Most customs provided for a way in which a person's properties could be distributed upon his death. However, most of these customs did not make provision for women in the distribution of a deceased estate. This disparity between the inheritance right of a man and woman was very prominent in the distribution of landed properties. Upon the demise of a man, his estate becomes family property and his eldest male child inherits it on behalf of other male members of the family. Where the deceased dies without a son, his brother inherits the estate. Notably, the Constitution did not abolish laws that existed prior to its enactment. It provides that these laws shall continue to exist subject to its provisions, the Constitution provides for its supremacy over every other law, and that the court has a duty to invalidate any law that is inconsistent with its provisions. The Court found the opportunity to alter the unfair discriminatory position against Nigerian women and develop customary law in line with Constitution in the case of Anekwe v Nwekwe. Here, the defendant (brother of the deceased) sought to evict the plaintiff (widow of the deceased and her female children) from the property of the deceased because she had no male child. He claimed that based on their customary law female children are excluded from inheriting property. The Supreme Court then invalidated this customary law of male primogeniture for being repugnant to natural justice, equity and good conscience. Although the decision of the court solved the problem of discrimination, it failed to develop customary law by invalidating only the discriminatory aspect of the customary law. Lessons can therefore be drawn from the minority decision of the South African Constitutional Court in the case of Bhe v Magistrate of Khaylistha, where recourse to developing the customary law was posited. This study will examine to what extent the court has applied customary law to bring it to conformity with the Constitution, drawing from other African countries especially South Africa. It utilises literature review and case law analysis, arguing that the court needs to review the Anekwe v Nwekwe case and make a more declarative position that brings customary law up to date with modern realities. It will recommend that the courts should in consultation with the people develop the customary law of inheritance.
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Baudin, Philippe. "Le magmatisme mésozoi͏̈que a cénozoi͏̈que du fossé de la Bénoué (Nigéria) : géochronologie, pétrogénèse, cadre géodynamique." Aix-Marseille 3, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991AIX30049.
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Le fosse de la benoue est une structure intraplaque de 1000 km de long orientee ne-sw, qui represente le segment occidental du systeme des rifts medio-africains. Sa genese est liee a l'ouverture du domaine equatorial de l'atlantique sud, qui a debute des le cretace inferieur. Un magmatisme mesozoique a cenozoique, tres diversifie mais de faible volume, accompagne l'evolution de cette megastructure. De nouvelles donnees petrographiques, mineralogiques, geochimiques et radiometriques permettent d'apprehender la nature, l'age et le cadre geodynamique de ce magmatisme. Celui-ci est represente par des roches plutoniques (gabbros, syenites) et volcaniques (essentiellement des basaltes, parfois des phonolites ou des rhyolites associees). Les datations #3#9ar/#4#0ar conduisent a distinguer trois grandes periodes d'activite magmatique: 1) jurassique terminal a albien (141 a 106 ma); 2) albo-cenomanien a santonien (95 a 87 ma); 3) paleocene a eocene (65 a 47 ma). La premiere s'inscrit dans l'episode tectonique de distension majeure syn-rift du fosse alors que les deux dernieres correspondent a des mouvements verticaux flexuraux consecutifs a des reajustements thermiques de la lithosphere. L'activite magmatique cesse dans la partie ne du fosse des l'albien superieur (vers 106 ma) alors qu'elle persiste jusqu'a l'eocene dans la partie sw (47 ma). Ceci traduit une migration de l'activite magmatique depuis l'extremite ne du fosse vers la marge atlantique. Le magmatisme du fosse est de type alcalin ou tholeiitique. Les roches a affinite tholeiitique sont caracterisees par des rapports initiaux #8#7sr/#8#6sr(0,7042-0,7065) plus eleves et #1#4#4nd/#1#4#3nd(0,5125-0,5127) plus faibles que ceux des roches alcalines (#8#7sr/#8#6sr:0,7028-0,7037; #1#4#4nd/#1#4#3nd:0,5126-0,5129). De par leurs compositions chimique et isotopique, les termes basiques de la benoue sont comparables aux basaltes intraplaques des iles oceaniques; la croute continentale ne semble pas avoir joue le role significatif dans leur genese. Les basaltes de la benoue deriveraient de deux reservoirs mantelliques principaux: 1) les basaltes a affinite alcaline sont caracterises par une signature geochimique de type himu proche de celle des basaltes de la ligne du cameroun et de celle des basaltes de l'ile ste-helene; 2) les basaltes a affinite theoleiitique renferment un composant mantellique de type em1. L'analogie entre le magmatisme du fosse et le volcanisme intraplaque des iles oceaniques suggere l'intervention d'un panache asthenospherique sous la benoue. Celui-ci represente probablement la source principale des basaltes a affinite alcaline. Les basaltes a affinite tholeiitique deriveraient du manteau lithospherique continental enrichi. L'activite magmatique qui a accompagne l'evolution du fosse de la benoue, constitue un lien, dans le temps et dans l'espace, entre la province magmatique du plateau de jos (215 a 140 ma) et la ligne volcanique du cameroun (65 ma a l'actuel). Cette migration spatio-temporelle du magmatisme dans cette partie de l'afrique suggere que ces trois provinces magmatiques (jos, benoue, cameroun) representent trois jalons d'une meme histoire ayant debute au jurassique et impliquant une dynamique de l'asthenosphere et de la lithosphere a laquelle sont lies l'ouverture de l'atlantique et le deplacement de la plaque afrique. Ces trois provinces pourraient avoir ete alimentees par un meme point chaud qui se situerait actuellement a l'aplomb de l'ile ste-helene
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Akanji, Olugbenga Rotimi. "Incarceration of Nonviolent Offenders at the High Court in Oyo State, Nigeria." Thesis, Walden University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10742944.
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The nonuse of community correction in the Nigeria criminal justice system has led to increased recidivism, contributed to prison congestion, introduced the risk of prison victimization, and lacked the provision of a rehabilitative structure for nonviolent offenders. The purpose of this phenomenological research study was to explore Nigerian judges’ use of alternatives to incarcerations for nonviolent offenders. Dolinko retributive punishment theory provided the theoretical framework for this study. Ten participant judges comprised the study sample from a purposeful and criterion random sampling method. Data were collected from participants through structured interviews and were coded manually, sorted, and analyzed using the Saldana data coding process framework. According to study findings, judges were inclined to use alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent offenders. Also, community correction could reduce overcrowding in prisons and provide the opportunity for self-improvement for nonviolent offenders supervised in the community. The implications for positive social change include a better understanding and implementation of community corrections for Nigeria judiciary and policymakers and the use of alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent offenders, which would improve rehabilitation, reformation, and reintegration of offenders into society.
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Hameed, Ayisat Titilola. "The National Industrial Court of Nigeria : what future for occupational health and safety." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=226063.
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The importance ascribed by a nation to the subject of occupational safety and health is reflective in the growth, sustainability and the national development of an economy. Besides the economic benefits stood to be derived from an occupational safety and health structure that is constantly nurtured, there is also the human rights issue. Less industrialised nations still grapple with fundamental challenges brought about by occupational health and safety, challenges which more advanced nations seem to effortlessly address. Nigeria falls into the former category, hence, the interest of this thesis. The knowledge of this menace has been in the consciousness of stakeholders in Nigeria particularly in the recent past years. However, no significant action has been taken to alleviate the situation. There are instruments that deal with the subject of occupational health and safety but they all seem to have their attendant issues which make them either inoperable or of insignificant benefit to the situation of workers in Nigeria. The tardy attitude of the Nigerian Law makers also does not help the situation. This thesis is therefore of the view that until the period the Nigerian Government is able to get its bearing right in designing a suitable piece of legislation that shall address the challenges caused by occupational health and safety, it is possible to seek an alternative approach that shall serve as a safety net towards the protection of workers particularly those that are most vulnerable. This alternative approach that the thesis proposes is the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN), a Court that recently acquired the status of a superior court of record and conferred with extensive Constitutional powers over occupational safety and health matters amongst others. It is the anticipation of this thesis that the Court shall make a positive impact where legislation had failed to succeed in its bidding.
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Ali, Fatimah Binta. "Body Weight Self-Perceptions and Experiences of Nigerian Women Immigrants." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6962.
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Low-income immigrants in the United States experience declining health with increasing length of stay in the country. Their declining health over time has been associated with increased smoking, obesity prevalence, and higher risk for developing diabetes and heart disease. How immigrants perceive their body weight and size, influenced by social interaction, culture, gender, and acculturation is also significant to healthy weight maintenance. Not knowing one's healthy weight could result in body weight misperception and resistance to attaining a healthy weight. The aim of this qualitative study, based on the social constructivist framework, was to understand Nigerian women immigrants' (NWI's) body weight self-perceptions (BWSPs), their experiences with weight changes after immigration, and what it meant to them within their historical, immigration, and cultural contexts. Data were collected from audio recorded interviews of 8 purposefully selected NWIs living in Middle Tennessee. After a process of content analysis of transcribed interviews using NVivo, participants' BWSPs were described and interpreted using hermeneutic phenomenology. The key findings of this research were that participants perceived themselves overweight compared to when they had just immigrated to the United States; believed that age, marriage, change in environment and food contributed to their weight gain; and were not accepting of their weight gain, which led them to eating healthier and moving more in order to lose weight. Findings from this research have social change implications for reducing health disparities by disseminating timely health information accessible to immigrants to educate them about nutrition and physical activity behaviors for healthy weight maintenance.
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Ojo, Victoria Olayide. "The Boko Haram violence from the perspective of International criminal law." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5175.
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Magister Legum - LLMThis paper will explore the history of the outbreak of religious related violence in Nigeria and the response of Nigeria and the African Union to the acts of the Boko Haram group both legally and procedurally. The intervention of the ICC as a viable option to combat the scourge of the group will also be examined. Other options such as trial in the Court of third States under the principle of universal jurisdiction and a special court jointly facilitated by the States involved will also be assessed.
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Oloyede, Tobi F. "The Resilience of Female Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in Southwest Nigeria: An Interdisciplinary Analysis." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3814.
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Female survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Nigeria endure harsh and traumatic experiences that affect their rights as women and their well-being. As the phenomenon of IPV persists in Nigeria, it is not only a family problem but a critical social and psychological problem. This study examined Nigerian female survivors’ hidden strength, agency, and resilience, rather than their powerlessness and vulnerability. Analysis of survey questionnaires, interviews, and secondary scholarship reveals that some Nigerian female survivors of IPV are able to cope whilst navigating stressful and traumatic experiences. The results also show that survivors’ ability to thrive and cope under stress not only results from individual traits and use of agency, but also from external support. This study infers sociocultural change and female empowerment. The results propose a need for interventions and further research on the development of the concept of resilience in female Nigerian survivors of IPV.
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Imoedemhe, Ovo Catherine. "National implementation of the complementarity regime of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court : obligations and challenges for domestic legislation with Nigeria as a case study." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/36077.
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The thesis is an analysis of how the complementarity regime of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) can be implemented in member states, specifically focusing on African states and Nigeria. Complementarity is the principle which outlines the primacy of national courts to prosecute a defendant unless a state is ‘unwilling’, ‘genuinely unable to act’, assuming the crime is of a ‘sufficient gravity’ for the ICC. This thesis argues that a mutually inclusive interpretation and application of complementarity should be followed because it will increase domestic prosecutions and reduce self-referrals to the ICC. African states need to have appropriate legal framework in place; implementing legislation and institutional capacity as well as credible judiciaries to investigate and prosecute international crimes. The mutually inclusive interpretation of the principle of complementarity entails that the ICC should provide assistance to states in instituting this framework while being available to fill the gaps until such time as these states meet a defined threshold of institutional preparedness sufficient to acquire domestic prosecution. The minimum complementarity threshold includes proscribing the Rome Statute crimes in domestic criminal law and ensuring the institutional preparedness to conduct complementarity-based prosecution of international crimes. Furthermore, it assists the ICC in ensuring consistency in its interpretation of complementarity. The thesis uses the policy-oriented approach, to define the relationship between the ICC and states as one of interdependence and to demonstrate that decision makers at the domestic level need to join the international community to implement complementarity. Complementarity has been stipulated in the Rome Statute without a clear and comprehensive framework of how states may implement it. The thesis proposes a framework that will hopefully help member states to overcome this problem.
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Ebobrah, Solomon Tamarabrakemi. "Towards effective realisation of the right to a satisfactory environment in the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: a case for domestic horizontal application." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/1210.
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"Although the African Commission recognised that non-state actors (in this case the transnational corporations (TNCs)) contributed to the violations that prompted the SERAC communication, it failed to hold the TNCs accountable for the violations. The Commission rather held the state party responsible [for] failing to prevent the violations in its territory. The reason for the failure of the Commission to hold the non-state actor accountable is obvious. As Anderson has noted, 'conventional jurisprudence contends that human rights are enforceable only against the acts of omissions of the state rather than the acts of private entities'. Consequently, especially in international fora, violations by non-state actors have gone largely unaccoutned for. Hence, commentators have argued in favour of seeking an appropriate regime for holding non-state actors accountable for such violations, some arguing for horizontal application at international fora. However, non-state actors lack the status to allow Charter institutions exercise jurisdiction over them. This leaves the option of domestic systems as fora for their accountability. Thus, the emerging principle of horizontal applicability of human rights in domestic jurisdictions and the assumption of independent judiciaries provide the premises for this study. ... Chapter 1 contains a general overview of the study. In Chapter 2, the essay examines the scope and content of the right to a satisfactory environment as contained in the African Charter. Chapter 3 examines the existing framework for the realisation of the right to a satisfactory environment under the African Charter. The SERAC case is considered briefly in this chapter as an example of the difficulty to arrest non-state actor violations in the existing framework. Chapter 4 presents the case for horizontal application of article 24 of the African Charter at the domestic level as a complimentary approach to realisation of the right. The debate on horizontal applicability of human rights is highlighted to show that it is not yet widely accepted but it is presented as a basis for this option. The recent Nigerian case of Gbemre v SPDC is examined as an example of the possibility of horizontal applicaton of the article 24 right in a domestic tribunal. Chapter 5 summarises the conclusions from the study and makes recommendations in support of applying the African Charter based right horizontally in domestic courts." -- Introduction.Mini Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2006.
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Nwuke, Okechukwu Vitalis. "Leadership Transition Strategies for Medium-Sized Family Businesses' Sustainability." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4315.
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Medium-sized family businesses are major contributors to economic activities and job creation in Nigeria, but more than 50% of such family businesses fail after leadership succession. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore the strategies that owners of medium-sized family businesses use to sustain the businesses after the leadership transition from the founders. The population for this study included 3 family business leaders in Lagos and Port Harcourt in Nigeria who have sustained their family businesses after the leadership transition from their founders. The conceptual framework for the study was based on the transformational leadership theory and the theory of planned behavior. Data collection was through semistructured face-to-face interviews and from company documents and artifacts. Data analysis was supported by follow up questions and member checking to enhance the credibility and trustworthiness of interpretations. The 4 themes that emerged were the founders' desire and support for transition, preparation of successors, trust and credibility of successors, and clarity of vision for both the founders and the successors. The findings from this study could contribute to positive social change by providing family business owners with strategies for managing leadership transitions to enable them to sustain their business operations after these transitions. Sustaining the family businesses might lead to a reduction in unemployment and enhance the incomes and well-being of the family members, communities, and Nigerian economy.
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Zare, Aïda. "Variabilité climatique et gestion des ressources naturelles dans une zone humide tropicale : une approche intégrée appliquée au cas du delta intérieur du fleuve Niger (Mali)." Thesis, Montpellier, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015MONTS186/document.
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Les sécheresses des années 1970 accentuées dans les années 1980 et les aménagements hydroagricoles ont eu pour conséquence une certaine dégradation des ressources naturelles du delta intérieur du fleuve Niger (DIN). Cette dégradation des ressources naturelles associées à la pression croissante de la population sur le milieu a conduit à une gestion conflictuelle de ces ressources. De plus, le système d’exploitation actuel des ressources et le fonctionnement hydrologique font du DIN un écosystème complexe à gérer. Dans ces travaux, nous adoptons une approche intégrée et pluridisciplinaire pour aborder la problématique de gestion des ressources du DIN. L’approche mobilise l’hydrologie, la sociologie, l’agronomie et l’économie. L’analyse des données hydrologiques a permis de mettre en évidence une différence significative entre les dates de passage des maximums des fleuves Niger et Bani qui alimentent le DIN. Cette différence impacte les calendriers des principaux systèmes de production contribuant ainsi à exacerber les conflits. Les stratégies de gestion élaborées avec les parties prenantes, allient des pratiques de sécurisation et de maîtrise de l’eau, d’intensification, de régénération des ressources, de renforcement des capacités et des incitations économiques. Par ailleurs, dans un contexte de variabilité climatique accrue, nous avons analysé les perceptions d’un échantillon de pêcheurs, d’éleveurs et de cultivateurs sur la prévision du climat et sur l’intérêt des prévisions climatiques et des crues. Il ressort que les besoins en information climatique des usagers d’une plaine inondable comme le DIN se rapportent surtout aux dates de début de saison, de passage des maximums de crue, de la date d’arrivée des crues et des hauteurs maximales de crue. L’intérêt économique simulé de l’information climatique pour un système agraire de riziculture inondée présente un gain moyen de 10%. Par contre le coût des éventuelles erreurs de prévision serait particulièrement élevé pour les producteurs avec un déficit moyen sur le revenu de 24%The droughts of the 1970s intensified in the 1980s and the development of irrigation schemes upstream of the Inner Niger Delta in Mali (IND) have resulted in the degradation of natural resources. This degradation of natural resources associated with the increasing population pressure on the environment has led to a more conflictive management of these resources. In addition, the current operating system of resources and the hydrological functioning of the IND make the management of the ecosystem more complex.In this work, we adopt an integrated and multidisciplinary approach to address the IND resource management issues. The approach mobilizes hydrology, sociology, agronomy and economy.The analysis of hydrological data has highlighted a significant difference between the maximum passing dates of the two rivers that supply the IND. This difference impacts the schedules of the main production systems thus contributing to exacerbate conflict. The management strategies developed with stakeholders combine the practices of security and water control, intensification, resource regeneration, capacity building and economic incentives. Moreover, in a context of increased climate variability, we analyzed the perceptions of a sample of fishermen, herders and farmers on climate prediction and their interest of climate and flood forecasts.. It appears that the need for climate information of floodplain users as IND relate mainly to the onset date of rainy season, flood maximum passaging date, the arrival of floods and flood peak heights.The simulated economic value of climate information for an agrarian system of flooded rice obtains an average gain of 10%. As against the cost of possible prediction errors is particularly high for producers with an average deficit on income of 24%
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Toure, Bayanatou. "Gouvernance des bassins versants transfrontaliers ouest-africains : appropriation et développement partagé des eaux du Niger dans les portions Bénin-Niger-Nigéria." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017BOR30027.
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Cette thèse vise la continuité des questions d’échelle à travers la gouvernance de l’eau qui ne peut s’établir à un seul niveau mais doit au contraire envisager tous les niveaux à la fois. Cela constitue une difficulté méthodologique majeure que la gestion internationale ne parvient encore à résoudre. La subsidiarité en était un moyen avec l’inconvénient de séparer brutalement les niveaux d’échelle. Mais le bassin versant considéré comme un espace de projet délimité, dont la gestion ne vise pas seulement son administration mais la coordination de politiques, induit une gestion au-delà des découpages administratifs, avec un processus décisionnel continu et négocié entre acteurs aux pouvoirs de différents niveaux, aux intérêts et aux logiques divers, souvent contradictoires. S’il est partagé par nature, en faire un bien commun impose de franchir l’obstacle de « l’égoïsme » qui peut être attaché à la souveraineté de chaque État sur son territoire. La réalisation d’ouvrages majeurs se détache du principe de « chacun chez soi ». C’est justement ce principe souverainiste qui engendre des hydro-conflits transfrontaliers. Ainsi, s’interroger sur la signification concrète du concept de gouvernance par l’exemple des eaux partagées du fleuve Niger dans ses portions Bénin, Niger et Nigéria, c’est poser le principal problème qui permet de hiérarchiser les différentes pièces du calcul. À travers une démarche inclusive, il sera question d’établir un diagnostic de gouvernance du bassin versant du Niger, d’identifier les impacts d’une telle approche sur le développement des ressources en eau et d'appréhender les pratiques sociales des usagers de l'eau notamment ceux impliqués dans le développement de l’agriculture irriguée et ceux qui subissent les impacts environnementaux qu’engendrent les infrastructures hydrauliques d’envergure à l’instar de Kainji et de JebbaThis thesis is the continuity of scale through the water governance that cannot be established at one level but must instead consider all levels at once. This was a major methodological difficulty that international management is still able to solve. Subsidiarity was a way with the disadvantage to brutally separate scale levels. But the watershed is considered as a project space delimited, whose management is not only the administration but the coordination of policies, induced a management beyond administrative cuts, with an ongoing decision-making process and negotiated between actors in the powers of different levels, interests and various, often contradictory logic. It is shared by nature, make a common good requires the hurdle of "selfishness" that can be attached to the sovereignty of each State over its territory. The realization of major works stands the principle of "everyone home." It is precisely this sovereigntist principle that generates cross-border hydro-conflits. So, wonder about the real meaning of the concept of governance by the example of the shared waters of the Niger River in Benin, Niger and Nigeria portions, this is the main problem that allows to prioritize the different parts of the calculation. Through an inclusive approach, it will issue a diagnosis of governance of the catchment area of Niger, to identify the impacts of such an approach on the development of water resources and to understand the social practices of users of water including those involved in the development of irrigated agriculture and those undergoing environmental impact generate the large-scale like Kainji and Jebba hydraulic infrastructure
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Ekeke, Alex Cyril. "Access to justice and locus standi before Nigerian courts." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43108.
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Locus standi is a Latin word for standing. Traditionally, it implies that a litigant must have
sufficient interest to apply to the court for the enforcement of the right of another person,
challenge the actions of the government, have a court declare a law unconstitutional or even to
litigate in the interest of the public otherwise the application will not be successful.
The interpretation of locus standi before the courts in most common law jurisdictions is liberal.
Nigerian courts, however, interpret the principle of locus standi strictly, in the sense that standing
is accorded the person who shows cause of action or sufficient interest. This position denies
access to justice to many Nigerians who are poor or have no knowledge of their rights as the
courts position on standing prevents NGOs or other individuals from applying to the courts on
their behalf or litigating in the interest of the public.
Presently, the Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedure) Rules 2009 regulate the practice and
procedure for the enforcement of human rights before Nigerian courts. The Rules encourage the
courts to ‗welcome public interest litigation in the human rights field‘ and not to dismiss or strike
out human right cases for want of locus standi. However, it is doubtful if the courts will accept
this invitation.
This study looks at the context of the interpretation of the principle of locus standi by Nigerian
Courts and its effect on access to justice and public interest litigation by NGOs and individuals.
It also examines the impact of the provision for locus standi of the Fundamental Rights
(Enforcement Procedure) Rules 2009.
Finally, this study provides an analysis of the interpretation of this concept in other common law
jurisdictions such as Kenya, India, United Kingdom and South Africa who once interpreted the
concept strictly but now interpret it more liberally. This comparison is necessary to show that
Nigerian courts are isolated in their position in the interpretation of locus standi and that there is
need for the courts to conform to international best practice.Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2014
Centre for Human Rights
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Izu, Benjamin Obeghare. "Music and associated ceremonies displayed during Ugie (festival) in the Royal Court of Benin Kingdom, Nigeria." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/6721.
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This study examines the Oba of Benin Royal Ugie ceremonies, which is an annual religious and cultural event celebrated by the Benin speaking people of Edo State, Nigeria. As a communal and spiritual activity, the Oba and people of Benin kingdom mark the Ugie festivals with Musical and dance performances. Within this context, the study adopts the historical and participant approaches as its method of contending that some events during the Oba of Benin Royal Ugie festival ceremonies are colorful theatrical performances.
The organizational structure of the Oba of Benin Palace as it relates to the observance of Ugie festival ceremonies is also discussed in this research. This study also examines the role Ewini music plays in the various Oba of Benin Royal Ugie festival ceremonies, thereby looking at its origin, socio-cultural context, formation procedure, instrumentation, and organizational set-up.
This research also recommends different ways in which music practitioner can benefit by applying a theatrical approach to the study of these royal Ugie ceremonies and its music and also the ability of the festival ceremonies to continue to act as an instrument of stability and unity for the people of Benin kingdom, by bringing people from different walks of life together during the performance at Ugie ceremonies. For clarity, all non-english words are defined in the glossary section on page 73.Art History, Visual Arts & Musicology
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Kumswa, Sahmicit Kankemwa. "Going the distance : a description of commuter couples in Jos, Nigeria." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25132.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 193-206)This thesis describes a family variation among urban Nigerian couples called a commuter marriage. A commuter marriage in this study is defined as a union between a dual earner/dual career couple where the husband and wife have decided to live apart from each other due to work commitments until such a time as is convenient for them to live continuously together again. This separation is mainly undertaken to improve their financial and career prospects. The study seeks to understand what dynamics are involved in a commuter marriage in Jos, Plateau State. The Life Course Perspective, with a focus on the gendered life course perspective, serves as a theoretical framework for this study. The perspective assumes that families undergoing the same transitions are likely to display the same characteristics which may not be necessarily relevant for all families in the same life stage, while the gendered life course perspective acknowledges the gendered context. At the same time the cultural context of the Nigerian society in terms of family norms are taken into account. An overview of commuter marriages, including characteristics of commuter marriages and non-traditional marriages linked to commuter marriages are provided. The differences between established and adjusting couples were repeatedly underlined. The research has an underlying interpretivist paradigm, therefore a qualitative research methodology was deemed best for the study. A semi-structured interview guide and time diaries were used to obtain data from seventeen participants. It was found that a commuter marriage is costly financially, socially and emotionally. An emphasis on the male provider and the wife as the manager of the resources was highlighted. Commuter couples report that their greatest support system constitute their family members who show the most understanding to their situation. Commuter fathers were generally passionate about their fatherly roles, but had conflicting feelings about balancing work and family, feeling the family is losing out. Generally, commuter couples in this study showed a sincere desire for the commuting relationship not to span an indefinite amount of time.
Sociology
D. Phil. (Sociology)