A Critical Analysis of the Legal Mechanisms For Combating Money Laundering in Nigeria

Money laundering is a global phenomenon. Political leaders, civil servants in government and business elites in the public sector usually commit it. These are people who are entrusted with managing public funds for the benefit of the larger society but they turn around to betray such trust and confidence reposed on them and cart away huge sums of money stashing it in foreign banks that connive with them. They carry on the illicit activities by creating phantom companies, over-pricing contracts, using fronts and paying for contracts not executed or poorly executed. Many jurisdictions, including Nigeria, worried about this malaise have but the crime is yet to be drastically reduced. It is these worry which stimulates this discourse and which galvanizes this piece to advocate for more global actions against the scourge of money laundering across the world

Criminalisation of torture in Nigeria: a Desideratum

The use of torture as a mechanism of extortion and a routine method of interrogating persons suspected of having committed criminal offences has assumed an alarming proportion. In Nigeria, security operatives particularly the police, adopts torture for obtaining confessional statements. The country is yet to adopt the United Nations Convention Against Torture 1987. This paper explores the nature and use of torture by the state and private entities in Nigeria and, evaluates the constitutional standpoint thereof. It presents arguments for the necessity of criminalising torture in line with instruments adopted by the international legal community and the criminal statutes enacted by many jurisdictions

An Overview of Accessorial Liability in Nigerian Criminal Jurisprudence

Accessorial Liability is a crime in all known legal systems. In Nigeria, an accomplice is regarded as an accessory to whatever type of crime, be it a felony, a misdemeanour or a simple offence, committed by the principal. There is also the principal offender who does the act or makes the omission, which constitutes the actual offence. Sometimes, the principal offender commits the offence, but following from his cowardly disposition, he runs away as a fugitive to avoid arrest and punishment and another person receives and hides him. That person who provides an escape route for the principal offender is known as an accessory after the fact. It is generally this set of accessories, which provide the watershed for this paper

Taxonomy of Institutional and Legal framework for Environmental control in oil and gas industry in Nigeria.

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