ABSTRACT

In most Nigerian communities, participation in decision making is gendered, reflecting the structure of the dominant patriarchal ideology. The advent of the petroleum industry in the country has further entrenched the problem by undermining the voices of women regarding the distribution of the benefits of the industry in host communities. This development is a stark contradiction of the efforts of the government as captured in the various international and Nigerian legislations, including the National Gender Policy…
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INTRODUCTION

WHAT IS CORRUPTION?

Corruption has been  described as the behavior of officials in the public and private sectors, involving improperly and unlawfully enriching themselves and/or those closely related to them, or inducing others to do so, by misusing the position in which they are placed (Agbu, 2003).

ABSTRACT
Procedures guiding relationships in the physical world may not fit those in the cyberspace. To this end policies and laws made to check criminal infractions in the physical world may need re-evaluation to fit the peculiarities of the cyberspace. Cybercrime as one of the peculiarities of the cyberspace came in the wake of the evolution of the internet. It is against this backdrop that efforts are being made at both international and local levels to draw up…
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Abstract

Traditionally, trade unions are usually constituted for the purpose of regulating the terms and, conditions of employment of workers. To this extent, whether a union is a trade union or may not generates serious legal controversy. In most developing countries however, trade unions have pushed the frontiers of their assignment beyond mere regulation of terms and conditions of employment of workers. In Nigeria particularly, trade unions have been involved in myriads of activities which do not have…
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ABSRACT 

Security is the basic preoccupation of every individual, community or nation.  This is because security affects not only under a secure atmosphere that individual within a state can engage in productive ventures to meet their respective needs.  Similarly, it is under a safe and secure atmosphere that the state can mobilize both its human and natural resources for meaningful development.  To provide this much needed security therefore, service personnel in internal security operations come in contact with…
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Practice of Politics

• Perpetual struggle to maintain such power either by performance or stark
• Stark use of force
• Use of this force or power to allocate benefits all the while
• To Rosco Pound’s functionalist school, the essence of politics should be the administrative and judicial balancing of competing social interests

INTRODUCTION

• Contracts are a part of our everyday life, arising in collaboration, trust, promise and credit. We are exposed to contracts in all areas of our life .
• Contract law is an interesting subject that is relevant to each of our daily lives as most people will enter into contracts on a daily basis.

RELEVANCE OF CONTRACT LAW

• Regulation of transactions in Market Economies
• Ensures that contracts are binding
• Contract Law empowers actors in modern society with right principles for operation
• Contract Law makes for planning – eg land lord –tenant relationship

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