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Research Article DOI: 10.68193/jilj.2024.0q98v0og

ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR 2023-2024: CONTENDING LEGAL ISSUES ON DEFENCES OPEN TO ISRAEL

Musa Y Suleiman^*

To put the genocide tendencies of men under the guise of war on check, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide (the Convention) and the Rome Statute among other humanitarian international legislations were enacted. Israel experienced the massacre of its citizens in the hands of Hamas on the 7/10/2023. About fourteen hundred people were killed and over a hundred persons abducted...

Jun, 2024 pp. 175-187 7 views 2 downloads

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Research Article DOI: 10.68193/jilj.2024.b8sg4nd8

AN APPRAISAL OF THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL IN NIGERIA AND ITS IMPACT ON RULE OF LAW AND DEMOCRACY

Baamlong, Denaaneh Daniel^*, Makplang Fwangson Musa

Human rights issues have not only become a global concern but remarkable interest aimed at protecting and promoting universal respect for, and observance of human rights. The right to a fair trial is one of the universally applicable right guarantees recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and also constitutionally. Using the doctrinal method of legal research, this article apprais...

Jun, 2024 pp. 189-206 7 views 2 downloads

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Research Article DOI: 10.68193/jilj.2023.u2j2t13f

EXISTING STRATEGIES FOR AMELIORATING HOUSING CHALLENGES IN NIGERIA: AN APPRAISAL

Issa Akanji Adedokun^*

The right to adequate shelter is a right that is universally acknowledged both nationally and internationally. Despite this global recognition, housing right appears elusive due to the increasing rate of urbanisation resulting in acute housing deficit. The problem of housing is more pronounced in developing countries such as Nigeria than in developed countries. To this end, this paper, through a t...

Jun, 2023 pp. 189-209 9 views 2 downloads

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Research Article DOI: 10.68193/jilj.2023.avk4zx1j

HARMONISING THE SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY WITH CONTRACT LAW

Sylvester N Anya^*

Exponents of the social contract theory claim that the theory offers the philosophical and political platform for advancing the legitimacy of State and the bindingness of criminal law. Not much work has been done to ascertain the extent to which the social contract answers the description of a contract according to contract law. This paper concedes that the social contract can be distinguished fro...

Jun, 2023 pp. 210-232 5 views 1 downloads

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Research Article DOI: 10.68193/jilj.2023.d63tpedh

HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE TREATMENT OF PERSONS ON REMAND IN PRE‐TRIAL DETENTION

Sarah Rinmicit Garba^*

The issue of human rights violations has been at the forefront of most discussions in Nigeria especially in the Correctional Service System. Even though the aim of imprisonment has been to serve as a retribution for offences committed and to serve as a deterrent to others as well as reformation of the offender, investigations have revealed that the prisons are at the fore‐front of abusing the basi...

Jun, 2023 pp. 233-257 5 views 3 downloads

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Research Article DOI: 10.68193/jilj.2023.pjyex7pl

THE NEED TO CRIMINALIZE MARITAL / SPOUSAL RAPE IN NIGERIA

Sarah Rinmicit Garba^*

Marital/Spousal rape in marriage is non‐ consensual sex in which the perpetrator is the victim’s spouse. It is a form of domestic violence which has been condoned or ignored by law and the society at large. The reasons for the reluctance by many countries (especially Nigeria), not to criminalize and prosecute marital rape can be attributed to the failure of a precise definition in our laws, the t...

Jun, 2023 pp. 258-280 7 views 2 downloads

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Research Article DOI: 10.68193/jilj.2023.7l1o7nwm

THE RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN CONFLICT IN PERSPECTIVE: INTERROGATING THE EFFICACY OF THE UNITED NATIONS IN SAFEGUARDING INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

Paul Adole Ejembi^*

The 24th of February, 2022, will go down in the annals of history as a day of grim sobriety and palpable disruption of the hitherto international rules‐ based order. It was the day Russia invaded Ukraine in defiance of the provisions of paragraph 4 of article 2 of the United Nations Charter of 1945 which unequivocally prohibits the threat or use of force by Member States of the United Nations (UN)...

Jun, 2023 pp. 281-301 5 views 2 downloads

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Research Article DOI: 10.68193/jilj.2023.zwz3umbz

ASSESSING THE RIGHT TO PROTEST UNDER THE NIGERIAN LAW

Ernest Ogwashi Ugbejeh^*, Grace Dallong‐Opadotun

Protest is one of the potent means of drawing the attention of the government and demanding a reflection of the yearnings and aspirations of the people in her policies. In Nigeria, the right to protest of any Nigerian is guaranteed and protected under the international law and Section 40 of the 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended). Guaranteeing the right to protest is subj...

Jun, 2023 pp. 302-319 5 views 1 downloads

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Research Article DOI: 10.68193/jilj.2023.13l6wzbp

DISSECTING THE PROVISIONS OF HIGH COURT OF PLATEAU STATE CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 2020, TOWARDS EXPEDITIOUS DETERMINATION OF CIVIL LITIGATION

Arome Moses Okwori^*

The High Court of Plateau State (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2020 emerged after 33 years of application of the repealed Plateau State High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 1987. The evolution of the Rules in 2020 can be regarded as a landmark event given that the repealed Plateau State High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules 1987 had outlived its usefulness. The level of social, economic and technological adv...

Jun, 2023 pp. 320-343 5 views 3 downloads

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Research Article DOI: 10.68193/jilj.2023.oud6hqo0

REGULATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY: A FEASIBLE SOLUTION TO INSUFFICIENT POWER GENERATION IN THE NIGERIAN POWER SECTOR

Yodah Yakubu^*, Yahaya Aliyu Abubakar, Sa’adatu Muhammed Datti

The access to clean energy is crucial for the socio‐economic growth and poverty eradication of every nation. However, Nigeria's power sector has been plagued by issues such as inefficient generation and distribution of electricity, leading to a shortfall in meeting the energy demands of the populace. This has resulted in a decrease in the standard of living and limited the country's economic growt...

Jun, 2023 pp. 344-356 6 views 2 downloads