This research explores the impediments to inheritance under Islamic law, identifying key factors that disqualify individuals from inheriting assets left by deceased relatives. The study focuses on primary impediments such as homicide (Qatl), difference of religion, apostasy (Riddah), and slavery, while also considering the controversial inclusion o... Continue Reading
Any act of a company outside the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the company or the statute(s) creating the company are Ultra Vires. Traditionally, such acts are VOID and neither the company nor third parties derive any benefits from such transactions. Attempts to moderate the harsh consequences of the Ultra Vires Rule have failed to yiel... Continue Reading
The importance of Criminal Law as a vehicle for the advancement of humanity cannot be over emphasised. This is the law on which men place their ultimate reliance for protection against all the deepest injuries that human conduct can inflict on individuals and institutions.1 This, then, is the basis for the definition of offences and the stipulation... Continue Reading
The 1975 ECOWAS Treaty made by the founding fathers of the West African Regional Integration Philosophy was revised in 1993 in view of the developments in the region and the new world order. ECOWAS is still today, the common partnership through which Member States attempts to aggregate their common dream and aspiration for a prosperous United Econo... Continue Reading
The choice of this topic is apt and timely, in view of the functions and roles which the topic plays in the modern day Nigeria. In any given society, Nigeria inclusive, laws are often made to regulate certain conducts and behavioural attitudes of the people. Each individual has to conduct himself within certain a standard of behaviour. An individua... Continue Reading
As a result of interactions between individuals, it is normal for dispute to arise. Islamic Law had provided the procedures through which such dispute can be judicially determined. Nigerian Courts are enjoined to apply procedural Rules enunciated by Makili School of jurisprudence. Full application of Islamic Civil procedure in Nigeria has been limi... Continue Reading
Globalisation dissolves political, social and economic boundaries and pools the world into a single entity. At the investment front, globalisation has forced nations to realign their investment laws with international trends so as to be integrated into the international financial highway. This Thesis essentially seeks to analyze the effects of glob... Continue Reading
Petroleum has become the number one resource in the world because of its universality. All other resources are demanded in varying scales, but not petroleum. However the catch is that while demand increases, existing production of this pearl declines. In Nigeria, the problem appears to be a double-edged sword. Declining production and the apparentl... Continue Reading
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate. This Thesis, “Islamic Law of Business Transactions with particular reference to Sale of Goods”, is a humble attempt from my side to put my contribution, though dismal, along the line of those who have genuine interest to uncover the rich culture of Islamic Law, albeit, in a language other t... Continue Reading
Africa’s existing international boundaries are a product of the colonial partition in the 19th Century. Following independence, the colonial territories became sovereign nation states divided by the lines of colonial demarcation along with a series of commercial, linguistic, political and legal barriers. These barriers, imposed and reinforced by ... Continue Reading
Aviation is one of the greatest and important unique inventions of man in the area of transportation. Since 17 December 1903 near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina when a bicycle repairer Orville Wright propelled himself through the air a distance of 120ft the first powered flight in a heavier-than-air aircraft known to human, air transportation has been ... Continue Reading
This thesis has found out that the court does not have an efficient means of coercion to apply delivered decisions, there by making the enforcement of the court’s decision cumbersome; decision of the court dealing with sanctions on member state who fail to fulfil their obligations are more complex than the interpretation of ECOWAS text; the resea... Continue Reading
Increasing cases of dissatisfaction with the activities of members of board of directors of companies provoked the thought of researching into the subject of the practice of multiple directorships under Nigerian company law. At common law, multiple directorship is a situation where a director is on the board of two or more companies. The Nigerian c... Continue Reading
The institution of family property is a popular form of land-holding under customary laws of Northern Nigeria and Northern Cameroon. In the past, land was in abundance but population was scanty and there was no law governing the use of land as well. Land as a commodity was therefore, free for all and sundry. Alienation of land by sale, as well as d... Continue Reading
Justice and fairness is the basis of the relationship between government and its citizens. It is in fact the pivot around which all civilised social existence revolves. History has taught man that in restive moments and times of social stress the quest for justice assumes greater dimension and significance. Presently, most developing societies, suc... Continue Reading