Browsing by Author "Aishat Abdul-Qadir Zubair"

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    Combating Corporation-Induced Elenvironmental Pollution in Nigeria Vide Shari'ah Mechanism
    (Alliance University, Bengaluru, India, 2022-11-25) Ahmed Abiodun Muhammed-Mikaaeel; Aishat Abdul-Qadir Zubair
    The menace of environmental pollution is not limited to a particular clime. The scourge is being felt globally. Efforts to combat the menace is still ongoing at global, regional and national levels. Nigeria, as a sovereign nation, has suffered and is still suffering the menace of environmental pollution. The discovery of crude oil in commercial quantity gave birth to corporation-induced environmental pollution. National effort towards combating the corporation-induced pollution gave rise to series of legal frameworks while the country continues to experience environmental degradation. Against this backdrop, this paper looks for options beyond the conventional corporate law vide Shari’ah mechanism. This paper, which employs the Qualitative Research Design, adopts both the doctrinal and non-doctrinal legal research approaches. For the doctrinal approach, content analysis was adopted to analyze the primary sources like texts of Fiqh and legislations as well as the secondary sources such as textbooks, journals, articles, reports, among others. With the aid of comparative analysis, the paper compares approaches to corporation-induced environmental protection under the conventional law and Shari’ah. The paper further presents a visual representation of the various views using thematic analysis with the help of ATLAS.ti software. The paper contends that environmental pollution signifies corporate governance failure. It also argues that despite the availability of legal framework for environmental protection, the menace of corporation-induced pollution is persistent owing to certain challenges. It is contended that Nigeria has never considered Shari’ah perspective in protecting its environment. Hence, Shari’ah approach is recommended for combating corporation-induced environmental pollution in Nigeria.
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    Combating Corporation-induced Elenvironmental Pollution in Nigeria Vide Shari'ah Mechanism
    (Alliance University, Bengaluru, India, 2022-10-31) Ahmed Abiodun Muhammed-Mikaaeel; Aishat Abdul-Qadir Zubair
    The menace of environmental pollution is not limited to a particular clime. The scourge is being felt globally. Efforts to combat the menace is still ongoing at global, regional and national levels. Nigeria, as a sovereign nation, has suffered and is still suffering the menace of environmental pollution. The discovery of crude oil in commercial quantity gave birth to corporation-induced environmental pollution. National effort towards combating the corporation-induced pollution gave rise to series of legal frameworks while the country continues to experience environmental degradation. Against this backdrop, this paper looks for options beyond the conventional corporate law vide Shari’ah mechanism. This paper, which employs the Qualitative Research Design, adopts both the doctrinal and non-doctrinal legal research approaches. For the doctrinal approach, content analysis was adopted to analyze the primary sources like texts of Fiqh and legislations as well as the secondary sources such as textbooks, journals, articles, reports, among others. With the aid of comparative analysis, the paper compares approaches to corporation-induced environmental protection under the conventional law and Shari’ah. The paper further presents a visual representation of the various views using thematic analysis with the help of ATLAS.ti software. The paper contends that environmental pollution signifies corporate governance failure. It also argues that despite the availability of legal framework for environmental protection, the menace of corporation-induced pollution is persistent owing to certain challenges. It is contended that Nigeria has never considered Shari’ah perspective in protecting its environment. Hence, Shari’ah approach is recommended for combating corporation-induced environmental pollution in Nigeria.
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    LEGAL AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OF ISLAMIC BANKS IN NIGERIA AND MALAYSIA: A REVIEW OF LITERATURE
    (Faculty of Law, Benue State University, Nigeria, 2022-12-31) Ahmed A. Muhammed-Mikaaeel; Aishat Abdul-Qadir Zubair
    Legal and regulatory framework for corporate governance of Islamic Banks in Nigeria has received bellyful of criticisms from several quarters owing to various claims of their inadequacy and unsuitability. Worse still, report has it that Islamic Banks in Nigeria enjoys no special legislation for its corporate governance contrary to what obtains in similar clime. The foregoing thus prompted this research by literature review approach. Relying purely on doctrinal method, this paper examines the legal and regulatory framework for corporate governance of Islamic banks in Nigeria and Malaysia vide review of existing literature. Hence, from the literature reviewed, the paper finds that Islamic banks in Nigeria were subjected to laws which were originally conceived for the corporate governance of conventional banks in Nigeria; that there is no single legislation enacted specially for corporate governance of Islamic banks in the country contrary to the case in Malaysia; that the existing legal and regulatory framework for corporate governance of Islamic banks in Nigeria are not only defective and unsuitable but also have the potentials to defeat the purpose for which Islamic banks were established. The paper thus recommends that it is high time Nigeria borrowed leaf from Malaysia by enacting a special legislation for the corporate governance of Islamic Banks in the country. Corporate Governance; Islamic Banks; Legal and Regulatory Framework; Nigeria; Malaysia.