Civil Litigation in Nigeria
Civil Litigation in Nigeria

Author: Abdullahi, Ibrahim

Publisher: Malthouse Press

Published: 2018-05-22

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 9785557863

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This book highlights in a most condensed form judicial pronouncements by the superior courts of records as they relate to practice and procedures in civil litigation in Nigeria. Judicial pronouncements on civil aspects of the law in Nigeria are on the increase, rendering brief-writing more challenging, if not herculean, in the absence of a resource guide for the citation of authorities and knowing which changes have taken place in the law. For lawyers not to be taken by surprise in courts when issues relating to practice and procedures are raised without notice, makes the need to have a resource book that should serve as a quick guide the more compelling. This book is thus intended to be a reference guide.

Urbanisation and Crime in Nigeria
Urbanisation and Crime in Nigeria

Author: Adegbola Ojo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-06-22

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 3030197654

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This book uses crime-science and traditional criminological approaches to explore urban crime in the rapidly urbanising country Nigeria, as a case study for urban crime in developing nations. In Africa’s largest democracy, rapid unmanaged growth in its cities combined with decaying public infrastructure mean that risk factors accumulate and deepen the potential for urban crime. This book includes a thorough explanation of key concepts alongside an examination of the contemporary configuration, dynamics, dimensions, drivers and potential responses to urban crime challenges. The authors also discuss a range of methodological techniques and applications that can be used, including spatial technologies to generate new data for analysis. It brings together history, theory, trends, patterns, drivers, repercussions and responses to provide a deep analysis of the challenges that confront urban dwellers. Urbanisation and Crime in Nigeria offers academics, researchers, governments, civil society organisations, citizens, and international partners a tool with which to engage in a serious dialogue about crime within cities, based on evidence and good practices from inside and outside sub-Saharan Africa.

Colonial Systems of Control
Colonial Systems of Control

Author: Viviane Saleh-Hanna

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 2008-04-18

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 0776618237

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A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the first comprehensive presentation of life inside a West African prison. Chapters by prisoners inside Kirikiri maximum security prison in Lagos, Nigeria are published alongside chapters by scholars and activists. While prisoners document the daily realities and struggles of life inside a Nigerian prison, scholar and human rights activist Viviane Saleh-Hanna provides historical, political, and academic contexts and analyses of the penal system in Nigeria. The European penal models and institutions imported to Nigeria during colonialism are exposed as intrinsically incoherent with the community-based conflict-resolution principles of most African social structures and justice models. This book presents the realities of imprisonment in Nigeria while contextualizing the colonial legacies that have resulted in the inhumane brutalities that are endured on a daily basis. Keywords: Nigeria, West Africa, penal system, maximum-security prison. Published in English.

AN APPRAISAL OF PLEA BARGAINING UNDER NIGERIA CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
AN APPRAISAL OF PLEA BARGAINING UNDER NIGERIA CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

Author: ROSEBELLS UVIOVO

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-12-18

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 1794815600

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The book examined the concept of plea bargaining under the Nigeria criminal justice system. Plea begins as practiced today in Nigeria was not known or provided for in any Nigeria statues before the Economic and Financial crimes commission was established through the provision of section 1 of the Economic and Financial crimes commission (Establishment) Acts, 2004. Plea bargain was only seen for the first time after the establishment of the commission in 2004 under the administration of Chief Olusegun Obasenjo as the president of Nigeria. The application of plea bargain by the Economic and Financial Crime commission is usually based on the provision of section 14(2) of the enabling law that gives the Commission power to compound any offence punishable under the act of accepting the sum of money.

A Practical Approach to Civil Procedure
A Practical Approach to Civil Procedure

Author: Stuart Sime

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-08-15

Total Pages: 653

ISBN-13: 0199678715

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Written by an expert in the field, this classic text can be trusted to provide a thorough and highly practical overview of the key principles and procedures employed in the civil courts, making it an invaluable source of reference for students and litigators alike.

Islamic Criminal Law in Northern Nigeria
Islamic Criminal Law in Northern Nigeria

Author: Gunnar J. Weimann

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 9056296558

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Annotation. In 2000 and 2001, twelve northern states of the Federal Republic of Nigeria introduced Islamic criminal law as one of a number of measures aiming at "reintroducing the shari'a." Immediately after its adoption, defendants were sentenced to death by stoning or to amputation of the hand. Apart from a few well publicised trials, however, the number and nature of cases tried under Islamic criminal law are little known. Based on a sample of trials, the present thesis discusses the introduction of Islamic criminal law and the evolution of judicial practice within the regions historical, cultural, political and religious context. The introduction of Islamic criminal law was initiated by politicians and supported by Muslim reform groups, but its potential effects were soon mitigated on higher judicial levels and aspects of the law were contained by local administrators. This title can be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789056296551.