Towards sustainable development of environmental resources in Nigeria: examining the limitations

Many unsustainable activities such as, wood logging, bush burning, unregulated hunting of wildlife, over–grazing, deforestation, oil spills, gas flaring, Artizinal mining, urbanization which usually result to some adverse environmental impact like climate change, loss of carbon sink, desertification, pollution, depletion of biological resources, coastal erosion and flooding are the major limitations to sustainable development of environmental resources in Nigeria. However, in order to prevent the total annihilation of environmental resources and to conserve same for the benefits of both present and future generations’ legislations and policies have evolved which aim at achieving sustainable development of Nigeria environmental resources. This paper examines the concept of sustainable development of environmental resources in Nigeria and its limitation. The study makes some recommendations to navigate the identified limitations.Keywords: Sustainable development, Environmental resources, Limitations, Nigeri

Cultural practices and human rights implications on HIV/AIDS discrimination and other related issues in Nigeria

In today’s fact changing world law is generally acknowledged as a veritable instrument for the extension of liberties in all societies including Nigeria. In all these societies, the most overwhelming concern in the 21st century is the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Before now, the critical concern by governments and organization around the world have been the social, economic and psychological effects of HIV/AIDS as ‘a global emergency and one of the most formidable challenges to human life and dignity, and the active enjoyment of human rights, which undermines social and economic developments throughout the world and effects all levels of society. In the world over considerable efforts are being made to tackle this endemic disease headlong, because of its economic, social and cultural adverse impact in the life of nations. One of such meaning of tackling the disease is through the enactment of legislations on the subject. For instance Nigerian government recently enacted HIV/AIDS Anti – Discrimination Act, 2014 among other laws and policies to address the challenges of HIV/AIDS in the country. The focus of this paper is to use the HIV/AIDS Anti-Discrimination Act, 2014, to justify the enactment of national legislation on AIDS in Nigeria with particular reference to gender discrimination law and human rights. Consequently, this paper will highlight the challenges facing the efforts of the government on HIV/AIDS issues and lastly some recommendations will be profferedKeywords: HIV/AIDS, Cultural Practices, Human Rights, Discrimination, Nigeri