Browsing by Author "Essien, Isaac J."

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    CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA: DIMENSIONS AND IMPLICATION FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
    (Department of Public and International Law, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2013-04-04) Essien, Isaac J.; Abdulkarim, Abubakar Kana; Okoronkwo, S.C.C.; Musa, Habiba
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    DEVELOPING A CYBERLAW CURRICULUM FOR NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES
    (Department of Public and International Law, Nasarawa State University, Keffi., 2014-06-29) Okebukola, Elijah Oluwatoyin; Abdulkarim, Abubakar Kana; Essien, Isaac J.; Aliyu, Halima Doma
    This paper identifies the contents of existing courses in relation to those of cyberlaw. This exercise demonstrates that certain areas in cyberlaw are already in existing courses. Notwithstanding, the paper will analyse contemporary legal and social needs with a view to justifying the introduction of cyberlaw. This analysis will be in the context of topics, issues, areas, rules and principles that are relevant to cyberlaw but not contained in existing courses. Finally, the examination of certain computer-related courses demonstrates how they are either subsumed by or distinct from cyberlaw. Apart from the main matters, the paper addresses relevant but fringe questions such as the appropriate spelling of the proposed Should it be ‘cyberlaw’, or ‘cyber law’?
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    Is Corruption Mala Prohibita or Mala In Se?
    (Department of Public and International Law, Nasarawa State University, Keffi., 2016-05-17) Okebukola, Elijah Oluwatoyin; Abdulkarim, Abubakar Kana; Essien, Isaac J.
    All crimes are bad, but some are more heinous than others. This is the notion behind the concepts of mala in se and mala prohibita. These concepts are deployed by jurists and scholars to determine the level of heinousness of penalised conduct. The classification of an offence as mala in se or mala prohibitum is important for several purposes including sentencing and how seriously society should view the conduct in question. It is in this context that this paper makes an enquiry as to whether corruption, being one of the most discussed crimes in Nigeria, is inherently bad or bad only because the law declares it to be so. This analysis serves as a theoretical basis that may be applied in sentencing and other juridical exercises that involve the classification of penal legislations.
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    Law, Economy and Sustainable Development: X-Raying the Nexus
    (Department of Public and International Law, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2016-03-04) Essien, Isaac J.; Musa, Habiba; Husseini, Aliyu; Saleh, H.S.; Zakari, Mohammed Yaro; Okebukola, Elijah Oluwatoyin
    Law has come to play a pivotal role in shaping a nation’s economy. The law defines the economic policies of a country and the direction these policies should take in enhancing the developmental requirements of a nation. The economic development of a nation will be rudderless and have little or no impact if it is not anchored on a solid and sustainable base. In order for a nation to achieve these, the need to have a robust and continuous interface between the law and the country’s economic directive principles for sustainable development becomes imperative. This paper is aimed at examining the interface between the law, economy and sustainable development which has become the new economic development model of the world. Economies of nations of the world are now tailored towards sustainability of resources in a manner that creates an intergenerational responsibility that ensures utilization of resources by the present generation in recognition of the requirements of future generations to the use of those resources for their benefits too. Ultimately, sustainable development encourages the use of renewable that will lead to a reduction and less dependence on finite resources of the world, thereby giving such resources longer lifespan to enable future generations benefit from such resources too. This paper concludes that the connecting point between the three concepts here is the purpose they are meant to achieve.