As part of our “Development Law Book Series,” we have focused this edition on the financial services laws and development. Here we are focused on the overarching legal framework within which financial services operate in Nigeria and the need for reforms to put it on the path of steady growth. This is due to the…
This is the first in the series called “Development Law Book Series.” We have focused this edition on the conceptual notion of development law and the need to re-evaluate the general approach in order to reap the value of our economic reform processes. As usual, it has focused on the overarching legal framework operative in…
Nigeria’s judicial procedures are plagued with an obnoxious practice, widely known as “holding charge,” whereby the police obtains the endorsement of a court which lacks jurisdiction, to remand a criminal suspect in prison custody indefinitely. Suspects held under the holding charge regime may remain in detention as awaiting trial prisoners for upwards of five years…
