There is a unique relationship between the bar (lawyers) and the bench (judges) that exists in no other profession. However, this relationship is fraught with the hazards of tempers that sometimes seethe in the stormy billows of the courtroom and of antagonisms t...

The idea of human rights is one of the great issues of our time. It is both an expression of a spiritually, moralistic argument and a coping with a concrete contemporary historical concern. Human rights become an issue where they are violated, where the ...

Arguably, urbanisation, which entails spatial, social, and temporal phenomena, is social process that describes the manner in which cities grow and societies become more complex. From this point of view, urbanisation is not a new phenomenon in Nigeria in particular,...

The main argument of this paper emerges from the submission that the advent of globalization resulted in the dynamics that influenced the Nigerian dress culture, particularly among Lagos residents. While insisting that with the aid of globalization through mass medi...

Before the emergence of colonial rule in Nigeria, pre-colonial societies had well-organised political and judicial institutions that guided customary laws and orderliness. Among the means employed in implementing order and laws was the ‘prison’ locally referred to as ‘Tu...

Often, a particular historical event, phenomenon or process “defies” inclusion in a specific ideal type or terminology which we are used to using to indicate the particular event. One example of note is the Prague Peace Conference of 1813, which does not meet...