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» How to Structure the Proposed Special Courts for Electoral Offences
By IKECHUKWU A. OGU | Published 06/5/2010 | Law and Justice | Unrated

The promise by President Goodluck Jonathan to set up Special Courts for Electoral Offences is laudable, although I do not know the form the special courts will take. It is the appropriate structure of the proposed special courts I intend to explore here. No doubt, a lot of electoral offences get committed any time elections are held in Nigeria. Electoral offences are part of the sore features of the recurring decimal that is non-free, unfair, incredible and violence-ridden elections witnessed in our country.

» This Graveyard called Nigeria

The nation has become a lawless jungle where the basic laws of preservation are constantly being violated. Nigerians face dangers daily from many causes, both obvious and obscure. Death lurks behind every Nigerian, in Nigeria, like a Siamese twin that failed the surgeon’s knife. We stare at death in the face, breathe death and live death daily.

» THE NIGERIAN LAWYER AND ABUSE OF COURT PROCESS
By Kayode Oladele | Published 03/2/2010 | Law and Justice | Unrated
One of the problems inhibiting the rule of law and proper administration of justice in Nigeria today is the rise in the abuse of court process by lawyers and their clients even sometimes with the active connivance and participation of some unprincipled judges on the bench who are entrusted with very wide powers and who forget that those powers come with them the responsibility to be fair to all.. 
» Nigeria: A constitutional crisis? What crisis?
By Oladele Osinuga | Published 12/23/2009 | Law and Justice | Unrated
Whilst the personality of the office holder of the presidency changes as dictated by the wishes of the electorate, changes to the presidency as an institution are dictated by what are laid down in the constitution being the supreme law of the land. The Yoruba's have a saying, which when translated reads, "you don't seek, what you haven't lost". So in essence why invent a so-called constitutional crisis when at the present time none exists.
» Do We Have An Immigration Amnesty?
By Azuoma Anugom | Published 01/31/2009 | Law and Justice | Rating:

This is a summary of the final settlement in the case of Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) v. USCIS), 306 F.3d 842 (9th Cir. 2002), 976 F.2d 1198 (9th Cir. 1992), 717 F.Supp. 1444, 709 F.Supp. 998 (W.D.Wash. 1989). This is a class action lawsuit challenging the INS's interpretation of "known to the Government" and "continuous unlawful residence" for those who entered the U.S. on a nonimmigrant visa before January 1, 1982, and who applied for purposes of the legalization program.



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