ABSTRACT The performances of corporate entities in Nigeria leave much to be desired. Due to poor performances, corporate entities have lost some of the confidence which they hitherto enjoyed. This loss of confidence has led to the collapse of several companies. The major reasons for company failure are mismanagement and fraudulent practices by key players in the corporate terrain, as well as the inability of the in-built monitoring devices to perform their roles. The management and governance...
Abstract Safety is one of the most important needs of man today. Safety at workplace on the other hand is paramount and cannot in any way be ignored. Many vibrant and resourceful person have lost their precious lives and some have suffered permanent and temporal incapacities just because safety measures were not put in place. The June 3rd 2012 illfated Dana Airline crash in Lagos which claimed a lot of lives and the recent crashes that could have been averted if the aviation sector had taken ...
ABSTRACT Multinational Oil Corporations (MOCs) are oil prospecting and mining industries with different subsidiaries in joint venture agreement with State owned Oil Companies in different regions of the world. In Nigeria, the activities of these MOCs are most prominent in oil producing communities in the Niger Delta Region. The MOCs operating in Nigeria have impaired the environment of the host communities through negative oil exploration activities resulting in oil pollution that led to incr...
ABSTRACT War is gradually taking the front burner in international politics. In some case peaceful resolution of a crisis is possible and fully exploited to achieve peace and order in a state. However, where such attempt to resolve crisis fails, skirmishes and clashes may snowball into war. The impact of war on human population has invariably been sanguinary, devastating and catastrophic. Sometimes, the population of a nation is completely extirpated through bloody massacre geared towards the...
ABSTRACT The debate about whether economic and social rights can be or should be adjudicated and enforced by courts or other bodies in Nigeria has been on-going since the 1960s when the rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) were divided into two separate covenants. One contained economic, social and cultural rights; while civil and political rights were set out in the other. In the light of this, can it cogently be argued that the International Covenant on Economic, Socia...
ABSTRACT Uganda announced the discovery ofcommercially viable amounts ofoil deposits in 2006. This was followed by much jubilation as oil is expected to uplift Uganda’s economy from fangs of poverty and transform her economic development. Howeveri the discovery ofoil has occurred within the Albertine Rjft region, which is one ofthe richest biodiversity hotspots. Unfortunately, at the time the oil exploration starte4 Uganda did not have the requisite law and Personnel with requisite technica...
ABSTRACT The major purpose of the study was examining risk management in the Oil and gas companies facing a myriad of risks in today's global marketplace especially in Uganda using Tullow oil as a case. The risks range from volatile commodity price~ which are less linked to basic supply and demand but more to global socio-economic factors, to increased health, safety and environmental pressures. These are just few examples of the serious risks and threats that can impact oil and gas companies...
ABSTRACT This research work examined the enforceability of human rights norms in environmental protection. And critically reviews the functionality of human rights law in environmental protection and how it can be made to drive enforceability in order to reduce the impact of environmental stressors. The work treats the legal literature and theory of Environmental law and Human rights –and factors of enforcement of human rights law in Nigeria .It establishes that several theories have emerge...
ABSTRACT The evolution of the concept of corporate criminal liability of corporations is characterized by relentless struggles of the judiciary to overcome the problem of assigning criminal blame to fictional entities. Initially, a corporation was considered to be an entity devoid of a person in the strict sense; therefore, criminal guilt was considered to be quite difficult to establish in cases of aberrations of criminal nature by it. The principle of vicarious liability instead of criminal...
ABSTRACT The research assessed the relationship between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Although the establishment of the International Criminal Court was welcomed, and many people thought it to be a measure to avoid the accusations of double standards, or “victor’s justice,” which marked some previous international criminal tribunals, the research question was, whether the relationship between the ICC and the UNSC does not unnecess...
ABSTRACT The major purpose of this study was to analyze trade facilitation and its impact on East African regional trade, analyze non tariff barriers and their impact on EAC trade. To achieve this major purpose, four research objectives were formulated and these included: to analyze trade facilitation in East Africa and establish its impact on trade within the region, to identify various NTBs and their impact on regional trade; to discuss key provisions of EAC Customs Management Act and how t...
ABSTRACT This study explored an overview of the legal regime for oil revenue in Uganda which intended to help the people of Uganda and government to üriplement their expectations from oil. This requires putting in place new legislations for oil and gas administration and management of petroleum revenues. This research provides details on how the anticj~ated revenues shall be managed and integrated into the existing government systems with a view of miti~qating the overall impact of these rev...
ABSTRACT In Uganda, land use continues to change over time. Land use and forestry governance have continued to influence each other. There is increasing xiv public attention and debate about land tenure and forest degradation, privatization, and encroachment on land, and forest governance in Uganda. Poor governance is one of the main reasons for the decline of forest resources. This thesis is from a study that looked at land use and forestry governance in parts of central Uganda. The research...
This article simply examines the Pensions Reform Act 2014 and applicability to individuals and organization in Nigeria. It goes further to discuss the guidelines and procedure to register under a micro pension plan provided for under the Act. It concludes by emphasizing that smaller organizations can participate under the via a micro pension plan.
Abstract Bank fraud, defalcation and forgeries have unprecedented prepositions and dimensions in the banking industry. Fraud in Ugandan is epidemic and has its root firmly entrenched in the social setting1 . A report of the Uganda Bankers Association indicates that albeit the good performance of the financial system in supporting the economy through intermediation and operation of the payment system, the financial sector faces the problem of bank fraud which unfortunately is on the increase. ...