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This book highlights in a most condensed form judicial pronouncements by the superior courts of records as they relate to practice and procedures in civil litigation in Nigeria. Judicial pronouncements on civil aspects of the law in Nigeria are on the increase, rendering brief-writing more challenging, if not herculean, in the absence of a resource guide for the citation of authorities and knowing which changes have taken place in the law. For lawyers not to be taken by surprise in courts when issues relating to practice and procedures are raised without notice, makes the need to have a resource book that should serve as a quick guide the more compelling. This book is thus intended to be a reference guide.

This book is on the nature and practice of legal education in Nigeria, with comparative material sometimes deployed to shed light on current local situation. The primary goal of legal education is to prepare students for the profession. To do this, a faculty will need to pay attention to a theory of learning to guide it in implementing a programme that will serve the mission. It is hoped that the basic information here provided on the basic structure and content oflegal education and ensuing challenges should point in more fruitful directions to all in the legal profession in Nigeria.

This book contains the 9th Inaugural Lecture Series 2018 of the University of Lagos, Nigeria, delivered by Dafe Otobo on 4 July 2018. According to Professor Otobo, "e;this is a small part in the on-going attempt at placing state policies, organisational, managerial and workers practices in Nigeria, if not Africa and elsewhere, into truer perspective."e; Aside from updating trade unionism and related developments in Nigeria, it is easily a thought-provoking and thorough-going critique of dominant received theories on labour and employment relations.

Mohammed Chris Alli is a retired Nigerian Army Major General who served as Chief of Army Staff from 1993 to 1994 under General Sanni Abacha's regime and was military governor of Plateau State Nigeria from August 1985 to 1986 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida. Many years later, he was appointed interim administrator of the state during a 2004 crisis in the state following ethno-religious killings in Shendam, Yelwa Local Government. In this anthology, organized as a symposium on Mohammed Christopher Alli's work, he is identified as one of those critical and rational thinkers, philosophers, albeit, a General in the Nigerian Army, whose work finds a befitting logical space in the contemporary African philosophical tapestry. The book also captures the elements of military misrule in Nigeria and its undue influence on the body polity; it is a critical survey of past military misadventures, and a satire against false federalism, it is a firm warning against future corruption and impunity in the military.

Professor Darah turned seventy on Wednesday November 22, 2017 and to celebrate his very productive career, his colleagues and many of those he has mentored thought it appropriate to mark his official exit from the university in a dignified way by commissioning for publication, in the now acceptable festschrift tradition, the highly compelling and outstanding collection of essays titled: Scholarship and Commitment: Essays in Honour of G.G. Darah. The book is a ground-breaking collection of essays; some are couched as tributes to the ebullient celebrant, there are others on more serious discourses in the areas of literary theories and criticism, language and linguistics, popular literature and politics, the African woman, identity and contemporary realities, oral literature, the news media and cultural studies. The essays, on their own, attest to the vivacity and liveliness as well as the encouraging state of health of publishing in the Nigerian academia, which in this collection alone, parades forty-two essays in different fields or discourses.

The Oily Marriage, Professor Hope Eghagha's third published play, delves into the socio-cultural and political conflicts, conflicting emotions, and dilemma which the discovery and exploitation of crude oil present to the people of the Niger Delta in Nigeria. It functions at the personal level and the level of inter-ethnic relations and how sometimes the solutions to problems become intertwined with and undermined by selfish and personal interests. The image of the exploiter looms large in the play as business and commerce are locked in mortal combat for the soul of the region. How these issues play out in the twenty-first century is the concern of the playwright in this fast-moving drama of ideas.

Law, Environmental Sustainability, Land Use Planning and Protection in Nigeria is a unique new textbook that presents a diverse, comprehensive, and coordinated approach to issues of land use planning and environmental management and protection in Nigeria. It builds on recent advances in environmental law, planning theories and sustainable development to provide students with the foundation they need to understand approaches that can mitigate impacts of land use practices and enhance environmental protection and sustainable development. While providing a base of knowledge in international and national environmental laws, its primary emphasis is on describing and explaining emerging approaches, methods, and techniques for environmental land use planning, and sustainability. The book is an important new text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental planning, land use and natural resource management, and a valuable resource for professionals and others concerned with issues of environmental planning and land use.

Volumes 1 and Volume 2 of Nigerian Petroleum Industry, Policies and Conflict Relations contain the following on the oil and gas industry in Nigeria: basic production statistics; nature and activities of operators; official oil and gas policies; relevant laws and regulations; regulatory agencies; pricing of refined petroleum products; marketers and their challenges; consumer and community relations and reactions; crimes and vandalisation of pipelines and other infrastructure; refineries and refining issues; role of law enforcement and intelligence agencies; involvement of the National Assembly and its relevant committees; strategic issues and other impacts of local and international politics. A comprehensive and exhaustive discussion of each and everything thing about the Nigerian petroleum industry by experts in and outside academia research institutes and think tanks, top functionaries in relevant ministries, government departments and agencies, past and current heads of state/presidents, past and current ministers, prominent and knowledgeable legislators, politicians of all descriptions and at all levels, top newspaper columnists, discerning local and foreign critics,interviews and transcribed broadcasts and press releases by same, officials of non-governmental organisations and a host of those loosely referred to as civU society organisations, civil and political activists of all hues, so-called international development agencies, some diplomatic missions,and the dead-panned apologists for successive governments. An immensely invaluable documentary source-book, more especially to regulators, the NNPC group, policy makers, researchers and social scientists in tertiary institutions and public and private sector think tanks, local and foreign operators, observers and those with interest in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria.

Volumes 1 and Volume 2 of Nigerian Petroleum Industry, Policies and Conflict Relations contain the following on the oil and gas industry in Nigeria: basic production statistics; nature and activities of operators; official oil and gas policies; relevant laws and regulations; regulatory agencies; pricing of refined petroleum products; marketers and their challenges; consumer and community relations and reactions; crimes and vandalisation of pipelines and other infrastructure; refineries and refining issues; role of law enforcement and intelligence agencies; involvement of the National Assembly and its relevant committees; strategic issues and other impacts of local and international politics. A comprehensive and exhaustive discussion of each and everything thing about the Nigerian petroleum industry by experts in and outside academia research institutes and think tanks, top functionaries in relevant ministries, government departments and agencies, past and current heads of state/presidents, past and current ministers, prominent and knowledgeable legislators, politicians of all descriptions and at all levels, top newspaper columnists, discerning local and foreign critics,interviews and transcribed broadcasts and press releases by same, officials of non-governmental organisations and a host of those loosely referred to as civU society organisations, civil and political activists of all hues, so-called international development agencies, some diplomatic missions,and the dead-panned apologists for successive governments. An immensely invaluable documentary source-book, more especially to regulators, the NNPC group, policy makers, researchers and social scientists in tertiary institutions and public and private sector think tanks, local and foreign operators, observers and those with interest in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria.

This book is basically about the legal protection of intellectual property in Nigeria. Its nine chapters dwell on copyright trademarks, patents, industrial designs and the legal protection of intellectual property in Nigeria. Attempt is made at providing an overview of the law relating to the subject in order to facilitate a solid grounding in the law as a starting point from which various political, theoretical or other perspectives can be developed. There is substantial reliance on the relevant Nigerian statutes on copyright, trademarks, patents and industrial designs as contained in the Laws if the Federation 2004 and also on the reported cases decided in this area of our law by Nigeria courts over the years. References have also made to the case and statutory laws in some other jurisdictions, especially where Nigerian legislative enactments need a reform. It is very simple and comprehensive and not solely aimed at providing a basis just for undergraduates but also for postgraduate courses, in addition to being useful to teachers, lawyers, judges, magistrates and even non-lawyers or general readership.

Combined together in three volumes are the author's writings on labour and employments relations in Nigeria spanning over three and a half decades. Volume two covers the Nigerian industry-specific employment relations, comparative labour relations and cross-cutting African development issues.

In four hundred and eighty moons ago or thereabout, when Africa was a huge farmland, there lived a king in a place known today as Niamina Dankunku, who was endowed with dignity as a result of his wisdom and unquestionable character and well known within the Senegambia, Guinea and Mali region. He had two wives and six children, his first son Ishaq was to succeed him upon his death, but Sheriff, his second son, and his mother Awa, led Ishaq astray and planned to kill him. Maimuna, the Jinn who loves Ishaq, was afraid to tell him. But Mariama, a friend of Maimuna, also a Jinn, stepped into their relationship and made things more difficult for Maimuna... Athough the play is entirely fictional and any resemblance to any person death or alive is coincidental, it, of course, reflects some of what is typical in human affairs today - jealousies, intrigues, rivalries and compromises.

In this debut collection of poems, Fire in Paradise, Uzoechi Nwagbara explores the human condition through the prism of the Niger Delta where oil exploitation has environmental, political, economic, cultural, and other implications. The poet sings the tale of a people who are marginalized and brutalized for their bounty of oil. At the same time he envisions hope in the people's resistance. There is much experimentation in form and style as the passionate poet deploys irony, repetition, images of a wasteland, and other tropes to register his themes... Doubtless, this is an exciting and strong poetic outing and a welcome addition to contemporary African poetry. - Tanure Ojaide, Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

In April 1927, the British colonial government introduced a "head" tax to the former Warri Province. On July 1927, the people of the Province revolted against the imposition of the tax. The decision for the mass uprising was taken at a Joint Congress of all the ethnic groups - the Urhobo, Itsekiri, Ijaw and, Isoko, and Ukwuani - held at Igbudu Quarters of Warri township. The introduction of "head" tax by the British colonial oppressors, represented by Major Walker, Deputy Inspector-General of Police in the Province, turned out to be an incendiary fuse, and conflagration followed. How would one pay tax on one's God-given head? The 1927 Anti-Tax Movement in Warri Province spread across the River Niger to Owerri Province in 1929 where women led the revolt in what is generally known as "Aba Women Riot" in colonial records. When studied against the backdrop of contemporary Nigeria/Niger Delta politics, the 1927 revolt was a landmark in the "resource control" struggle of the oppressed, marginalized, and exploited people of the oil-rich Niger Delta.

The lectures in this book were delivered at significant points in Professor Nnolim's career. 'Literature and the Common Welfare' (1988) was his inaugural lecture, his declaration that he had come of age as an academic, as a young Professor of literature. In August 2000, he delivered 'Literature, the Arts and Cultural Development' to announce his induction as a member of the Nigerian Academy of Letters in which he was finally admitted as a Fellow in 2005. In this lecture, Nnolim makes strong claims about the validity of literature in Nigeria's national life. In August, 2007, Professor Nnolim delivered 'The Writer's Responsibility and Literature in National Development'. Here he re-emphasizes the importance of literary studies in Nigeria's national life and goes on to lament the total neglect of Nigeria's artists, writers, and world class intellectuals in national life. The fourth lecture, 'Morning Yet on Criticism Day: the Criticism of African Literature in the Twentieth Century', was given as a laureate of the Nigerian National Merit Award, 2009. It unifies Professor Nnolim's various pleas for the role of literature in national development but particularly re-emphasizing the problem of language in Nigeria's creative writing and urging governmental intervention in the matter.

In the dark days of the military and a mafia seizes the life of a nation crippling it down. A fight for the soul of the nation is waged with patriots ready to let it all out but time seems to have a joker of its own waiting,With the thrill and dangers of the time, this is the story of that fight zoomed in through the eyes of a soldier willing to give his all.

This is an apt publication for modern times, in which 'Sharia' has become a byword for an unacceptable social system, and is vilified as such; when crime is rife in communities governed by Sharia; and when in the non-Islamic West, the Islamic social and criminal justice systems are subject to intense public scrutiny and criticism, but remain little understood. The author presents a clear and factual account of the Islamic criminal justice system, expounding what he considers to be the real issues of Sharia, often ignored or misrepresented by both Islamic and Western scholars, and explaining its wider Islamic context and ethics, its Arabic roots, classical heritage and terminology, and its relevance to contemporary Muslim societies. Contents: concept of crime; features of Islamic criminal liability; defences to Islamic criminal liability; 'Hudud' crimes; 'Zina' - adultery or fornication; 'Qadhf' - slander or false accusation; 'Hadd' offence of 'al-sariqa' - theft; 'Hadd' offence of 'shurbul khamr' - wine drinking; 'Hiraba' - brigandage or highway armed robbery; 'Riddah' - apostasy; 'Baghye' - rebellion or treason; 'Qisas - retaliation; 'Ta'azir' punishment.

Vice president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Issa Aremu, has been writing a column in the Daily Trust, Nigeria for several years and has been an occasional contributor to a number of other Nigerian publications. Covered in this volume Prof. Aremu recounts his personal experiences with individuals whose ideas, lives and brilliant minds have been applied to the critical examination of the human condition, the African condition: Fidel Castro; Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Wole Soyinka, Fela Kuti and others.

Vice president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Issa Aremu, has been writing a column in the Daily Trust, Nigeria for several years and has been an occasional contributor to a number of other Nigerian publications. Covered in this volume:the Nigerian government's labour and employment policies; structural adjustment measures; the challenges of labour law and legislative authorities; compensation and wage policies; the challenges facings union organisation; mass employment and unemployment; the standard of living of working people; pension schemes; industrial conflict and strikes; and the coverage of industrial relations and trade unionism in the print media.