Browsing by Author "*Animashaun O.O.*"

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    Entrepreneurship and the Legal System: The Law’s Response to Unemployment
    (Department of Jurisprudence and International Law, Faculty of Law, Kogi State University, Ayingba, 2014) *Animashaun O.O.*
    Nigeria is classified as a failed state due to widespread insecurity, decayed and non-existing infrastructure, and badly planned economy. The decayed state of Nigeria results into a badly planned educational system and an ill-suited curriculum which threw up unemployable youth into the economy annually. The unemployment level which has reached a dangerous level whereby over fifty percent of the productive population is either unemployed or underemployed is a cause of concern for the international community, the Nigerian government and the citizenry. This paper, through a review of the literature and case law, analyses the various laws and policies enacted by the Nigerian governments in combating unemployment. The paper found that the laws and policies aimed at combating unemployment in Nigeria is less than successful due to corruption, faulty implementation of the laws and policies, among others. The paper also found that Nigeria governments have been paying lip service to sustainable development goals. The paper looks at the adequacy of these laws and policies, and makes appropriate recommendations.
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    Entrepreneurship and the Legal System: The Law’s Response to Unemployment
    (Department of Jurisprudence and International Law, Faculty of Law, Kogi State University, Ayingba., 2014) *Animashaun O.O.*
    The failure of the Nigerian state is confirmed by the decaying and non-existing infrastructure, policy somersaults, badly planned economy and unplanned educational system which threw up unemployable persons into the economy on a yearly basis. The article examines the laws as it relates to employment generation or otherwise, and concludes that the massive youth unemployment manifest through the upward swing in terrorism, kidnapping, armed robbery, prostitution, fraud, corrupt practices, homo-sexuality and other unacceptable social vices. This article therefore recommends that there is the need to enact appropriate statutes to arrest the situation, amongst other recommendations.
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    Poverty and Unequal Access to Justice by the Poor in Nigeria: Lessons from other Jurisdictions In Nationalism and Economic Justice in Nigeria
    (Department of Philosophy, OAU/Obafemi Awolowo University Press, 2014) *Animashaun O.O.*
    The global financial crises have enlarged the rank and multiplied the suffering of the poor significantly. The power elites who are the architect of the crises have created safe pathway for their rank while the poor and the middle class bear the brunt of the problem. In Nigeria, evidence abound that the poor and the disadvantaged are vulnerable to various human rights abuses. One of such is the unequal access to justice that undermines the possibility of equality in society. It is against this backdrop that this treatise examines obstacles the poor faces in accessing justice and proposes some ways in which these problems may be addressed. The article highlights various social, political and legal obstacles that are peculiar to the poor; and those that, though are applicable to the affluent, but create more problems for the poor because of his status. The article goes on to analyse the concept of fundamental rights as enshrined in the 1999 Nigerian Constitution and the impact on the rights of the poor to access justice. Furthermore, the article evaluates the capabilities of the court system as a whole, as well as the judiciary, and identifies the principle of independence as the main requirement. The article also examines the institutional and procedural obstacles that the poor encounters when seeking justice and suggests policy responses for overcoming them in order to avert anarchy in the society. However, if for whatever reason, this access to redress from injustice is denied, the poor’s hope is automatically dashed and they become disillusioned and lose confidence in the whole system. In most cases, they take the laws into their own hands and resort to violence and self-help. Ethnic Militias such as Egbesu boys, Bakassi boys, Odua People’s Congress, election related violence, “Operation Wet-e”, pipeline vandalisation in the Niger Delta, even coup d’état have been linked with injustice. Drawing inspirations from other jurisdictions, the article explains why justice is so important for poor people and introduces a broad range of responses in the areas of legal and institutional reforms.
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    Scope, Extent and Limitation of State’s Power to Tax in Nigeria and other Commonwealth Jurisdictions
    (Faculty of Law, Lagos State University, Ojo, 2016) *Animashaun O.O.*
    Taxation is eulogized by some experts as the elixir needed to fuel development in any polity while others criticized it as confiscation of private wealth and punishment for hard work and industry. The former claimed that the power of the state to tax is unrestricted in a unitary state and only limited by constitutional demarcation of powers in a federal state while the latter maintained that the power to confiscate the wealth of others must have serious restrictions. The overwhelming and awesome nature attributed to tax made Judge Marshall to pronounce that “the power to tax involves the power to destroy.” Another judge of a different orientation responded that “the power to tax is not the power to destroy while this court sits”. Consequently, the contention is continuous. The object of this work is to examine the extent to which the state, through the governments and its agencies could tax its subjects. Is the power of the state to tax absolute or limited? The paper examines the power of the sovereign state to tax in various jurisdictions and the limitations applicable in each jurisdiction
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    The Dearth of Peace and Unity in Nigeria: The Law as the Culprit
    (Bahiti & Dalila Publishers/ IBB University, Lapai., 2016) *Animashaun O.O.*
    The Nigerian state is a large expanse of land totalling approximately 923,768 square kilometres, with over 250 distinct ethnic groups, with distinct languages, custom, beliefs, mores and culture. This diversity presents unique opportunities as well as problems, as the different nations and ethnic groups within the Nigerian state have varied, diverse and distinct hopes, desires and aspirations. The interest and activities of a nation may be diametrically opposed to that of another or other nations within the Nigerian state, thereby breeding conflict, controversy and disunity within the polity. In states that have the fortune of such diversity, the main factor used to foster unity and enduring peace is the law. The Nigerian state has failed in this ramification. Unjust and out dated laws, selective application of the law, bad procedure in selecting judicial and law enforcement officers, unduly long delays in delivering judgment and indiscriminate grant of amnesty to political convicts are special features that characterized the polity. The paper examines the way by which the application of law or the lack of it and the defects stated above have eroded the fabric of the Nigerian society and undermine her unity. The paper provides substantial exposition of the problems and offers antidotes that are likely to cement the societal fabrics and ensure unity.