Browsing by Author "Akaje Halimat Tope"

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    Assessment of Government’s Attitude Towards Environmental Rights’ Protection in Nigeria
    (Department of Commercial and Property Law (now Department of Commercial and Industrial Law) Faculty of Law, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, 2026) Akaje Halimat Tope; Muhammed-Mikaaeel Ahmed Abiodun
    Menace of environmental pollution in Nigeria has threatened the achievement of the sustainable goals on good, quality environment and well-being. Despite the availability of the various robust environmental legislations in the country, attitude of government towards environmental right protection has been portrayed badly. To this end, this study assesses the attitude of government towards environmental right protection in Nigeria with reliance on the non-doctrinal method of legal research. Through the qualitative approach, the study focuses on environmental pollution issues in Nigeria, environmental right in Nigeria, and Government’s efforts and effectiveness of the existing mechanisms in the protection of the environment in Nigeria. The study samples the opinions of the relevant 32 stakeholders in the field of environmental laws and made succinct findings. The study finds that there exits environmental pollution issues in Nigeria and such existence has brought to fore the enormity of environmental pollution and its attendants impacts on the environment and the citizens at large; the right to a healthy environment is not adequately protected in Nigeria and there is need to protect the right in order to enhance environmental sustainability; and there exists negative attitudes of Government towards environmental right protection in Nigeria which has weakened the existing mechanisms in the management of environmental issues in Nigeria. The study suggests active involvement of the judiciary by way of judicial activism and attitudinal changes on the part of the Nigerian government
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    CHALLENGES TO THE APPLICATION OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW IN NIGERIAN COURTS
    (Department of Commercial and Property Law (now Department of Commercial and Industrial Law) Faculty of Law, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, 2025-09-20) Akaje Halimat Tope
    The global concern for the growing crisis of development and environment has led to the emergence of International Environmental law and adoption of several treaties to deal with environmental issues. Nigeria is a signatory to many environment treaties but few of these treaties have been domesticated into the Nigerian Law. This paper therefore discussed the application of International Environmental Law in Nigerian courts. It also discussed the challenges to the application of International Environmental law by Nigerian Courts. It relied on information from textbooks, journals, newspapers and internet materials. The paper also found that the importance of International Environmental Law to environmental protection globally and particularly Nigeria cannot be over emphasized. It revealed that the application of International Environmental Law in Nigerian Courts is confronted with many challenges; these challenges bother on domestication, judicial attitude, locus standi and remedies. It concluded that the provisions of section 12 (1) of the Nigerian Constitution, which stipulates that a treaty must be domesticated before it can have the force of law in Nigeria is a major hindrance to the application of International Environmental Law in Nigerian Courts. The paper recommended tackling the challenges to the application of International Environmental Law in Nigerian Courts, such as domestication of treaties, widening of locus standi, capacity building for judges.
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    COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGIES OF OTHER JURISDICTIONS: LESSONS FOR ENHANCING SECURITY MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA
    (Department of Jurisprudence and Public Law, 2025-12-31) Olatinwo Khafayat; Amuda-Kannike Abiodun SAN; Akaje Halimat Tope; Oniye Shuaib; Yahaya Ganiyu; Abdulkareem Abdulfatai; Ayinla- Ahmad Bilikis; Eletu Khairat
    Undermining the extent to which insecurity has become endemic in Nigeria currently would be tantamount to denial syndrome or refusal to accept reality. It has become a plague in which individuals’ solace for the restoration of peace and security is no longer rested in the government. In other words, citizens do not have confidence in the security system in place in Nigeria for protection of lives and properties. Whilst this is the reality, the bane of ensuring security in Nigeria hugely rests on the government. The Constitution places the duty of ensuring security on the government, and to ensure this, there are several federal security outfits and agencies (Nigeria Police, Army, Air force, NSCDC, SSS, etc.), the State Policing system (like the Amotekun in the south-west zone), and other policies put in place. The questions are, why are these efforts not yielding positive outcomes? Why do the citizens still sleep with an eye open? Why is the level of insecurity still higher than in some other countries when Nigeria is known as the giant of Africa? It is the intention of this paper to analyse and compare the security strategies of some countries with a rather low level of insecurity (having in mind the peculiarity of Nigeria as an African country) with that of Nigeria. The analysis is to reveal whether Nigeria, as a country, can learn from such strategies for the protection of lives and properties in the country. Appropriate recommendations on the better approach by the Nigerian government to curb the incessant killings and kidnappings shall be made.
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    E- Path To Effective Justice Delivery: The Nigerian Courts In Perspective
    (Covenant University Press, 2015-06-11) Akaje Halimat Tope; Asonibare Adelowo Stephen
    The need to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the judicial system in Nigeria has necessitated the use of modern information and communication technology (ICT). The conventional method of justice delivery in Nigeria is marred with avoidable delays in the dispensation of justice and lack of transparency. However, the constraints of conventional methods of judicial system in Nigeria can only be solved by embracing the electronic justice system. Hence, ICT should be employed in conducting most of the activities in Nigerian Courts, considering its successful adoption and use in some other jurisdictions. This article therefore, aims at examining in extensio a way out from the conventional methods of justice delivery in the area of e-filing of court processes e.g. originating processes, Motions, addresses, briefs and other processes; e-recording of court proceedings; e-archives (to facilitate retrieval of judgments, rulings, etc); and e-probate etc. In doing so, the paper will focus on towing the path of electronic ways in enhancing effective justice delivery in the Nigerian Courts as an antidote to the delays being experienced in the service delivery associated with the conventional method. To achieve this, reliance has been placed on secondary source, emanating from books, case laws, articles in learned journals, conference papers and other relevant materials. This paper will enlighten Lawyers, Judges, Litigants and other stakeholders in the justice sector on the need to embrace E-justice delivery with the resultant effect of enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of the judiciary as an arm of the government in Nigeria
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    POVERTY REDUCTION AND LIVELIHOOD PROGRAMMES IN ILORIN KWARA STATE: LEGAL ISSUES IN PERSPECTIVE
    (Faculty of Law Federal University Oye -Ekiti, Ekiti State, 2024) Akaje Halimat Tope
    Nigeria has been rated as one of the poorest countries in the world as many citizens of Nigeria live below the poverty line. The Kwara State Bureau of Statistics estimated the poverty rate of the state to be 80.54 percent in 2010, Ilorin, being the capital of Kwara State, also has its fair share, as some residents are living with poverty. Hence, this paper seeks to discuss the livelihood programmes that have been embarked upon in Ilorin for the purpose of improving the lives of the vulnerable and marginalized residents. This paper relies on information from textbooks, journals, newspapers, and internet materials-doctrinal method of legal research. This paper reveals that livelihood programmes are valuable tools to reduce poverty but many factors such as corruption, nepotism, politicking, etc inhibit the sustainability and effectiveness of livelihood programmes in lifting people out of poverty in Ilorin. The paper also reveals that legal issues are embedded in the implementation of livelihood programmes, such as land ownership and access, environmental and social safeguards, human right issues and legal remedies for violation of rights, Transparency and accountability in programme implementation, etc. The paper concludes that adherence to legal provisions in the implementation of livelihood programmes enhance their sustainability and effectiveness. The paper also makes recommendations to surmount the challenges confronting the successful implementation of livelihood programmes in Ilorin, such as provision of adequate funding for livelihood programmes by government, monitoring of livelihood programmes