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LAW AS A SOCIAL MEDICINE
Discussions of the utility of the laws in Nigeria are not novel amongst scholars, lawyers, law students, and political scientists in Nigeria. Laws are generally agreed to serve multifarious purposes including goals parallel to medicine in man. The way medicine has functions which vary from preventive, curative, and rehabilitative, so also can a law be to prevent, cure and rehabilitate a sick society. These different health care functions can be discussed with the curative function of law thus: What should be the course when the medicine is the cause of the sickness? or when the sickness is due to overdose of drugs, or drug abuse? The writer explains the illness of Nigeria from the perspective of the sociological jurisprudence, concluding that not just any law is sufficient as a medicine but a carefully prescribed law, the same way prescription has to be done by an expert for the drug to function maximally in the human body, noting that in reality, the law can either act to cure, prevent and rehabilitate the society of social ills or destroy, exacerbate and permit societal ills.
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WILL THIS NIGERIA EVER CHANGE
The State of Nigeria, is a land mass of 923,768 km2 consisting of over 520 languages, over 250 ethnic groups and tribes. There are about 17 major Languages in Nigeria and some languages have several dialects, e.g. the Yoruba language in Nigeria, is divided into about 5 dialects. Now I’m not citing all of these for sake of mentioning, all of these is to show the most important thing about Nigeria, Diversity. Our Diversity in the area known as Nigeria starts from our pre-colonial existence before the decision to put each together and name it “NIGERIA”
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THE OVERSIGHT FUNCTION OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY: BRIEF DISCUSSION OF “THE RUBBERSTAMP LEGISLATURE” SINCE 1999
The rationale behind powers and functions separation is hinged on the principle that “when the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty” 1. The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 2. provides for the powers and functions of the legislature, executive and the judiciary respectively, clearly distinguishing between their different functions and giving each a certain degree of control over the other while providing for their coordination and co-operation.
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RIGHTS OF THE CHILD: NIGERIA’S LEGAL AND PRACTICAL POSITION
In the past, children were not granted and af orded any special protection, the onlyprotection some children were granted flowed from their parent’s status, makingtheprotection to these privileged few to be one af orded by means of discriminationviasocial class and status of each child’s parents’ social stratum. Children in recent timesaround the world are being given the deserved attention resulting in variousdeclarations and conventions which have gotten universal acceptance. This writerwhile taking a look at the Nigerian position addresses the need for practical protectionrather than legal protection as the legal framework in child rights in Nigeria have hadno practical implementation despite the somewhat rich flavour of legal provisions, international and municipal, of their protection
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AFRICA AND HUMAN RIGHTS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.
The root of most Human Rights discussions in Africa stems from Western inputs anddevelopments. This tracing of everything human rights in Africa to sources beyondAfrica gives the impression that the idea of the better morality, better religion, better idea of rights as distinct from wrong and better idea of human rights was introduced by foreign forces into our “barbaric practice and tradition”. The writer as a prelude to our discussion will be examining the concepts "Africa" and “human rights”, going further to refutethe erroneous assertion as evidenced supra that human rights is a relativelynew concept to Africa, concluding the discussion with a subtle outlook of the AfricanCharter.
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ATTEMPTED SUICIDE: PUNISHMENT OR REHABILITATION
This writer takes a look at societal and psychological factors of suicide and attempted suicide, philosophy and psychology of suicide and causes of suicide, concluding that suicide attempts are calls for help to the society which should be replied with assistance and rehabilitation not punishment and state brand as criminals.
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THE DOCTRINE OF SEPARATION OF POWERS OVER TIME AND A CASE FOR THE REVIEW OF NIGERIA’S POWER SEPARATION MODEL
The doctrine of separation of powers is utilised as a device against despotic utilisation of government power by any person or institution. The essay discusses the doctrine’s importance, stating that its pure application is neither objective nor is it practicable. The writer discusses the doctrine’s models in several polities and the absence of a universal power separation model, the historical development of the doctrine from the mere practice of power separation to the theory of mixed government and the doctrine itself, highlighting that the doctrine constantly aims to preventing the over-concentration of powers. This writer notes that since the doctrine’s past was morphable to develop to the present, the present should be morphable enough to assimilate other principles as long as the aim remains achievable. The writer concludes with the doctrine’s challenges in Nigeria, making recommendations, germane, to its effective application in Nigeria.
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