THE IDEA OF NATURAL RIGHTS; A NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE Being a Paper presented at PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR SERIES OLABISI ONABANJO UNIVERSITY‚ AGO-IWOYE‚ OGUN STATE ON THE 4TH SEPTEMBER‚ 2006 AT OGD LECTURE THEATER By OMOTOSO‚ SHARON ADETUTU ABSTRACT This paper attempts a philosophical appraisal of the idea of natural rights‚ issues and problems associated with human
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corporate companies with a lot of power‚ and instead of using that power for good they manipulate innocent people and cause them suffering. Ford gathers a group of criminals uses their skills to make those companies suffer in return. In the episode the Nigerian Job Victor Duben acts as though‚ he has been stolen from; when in fact he was the one that wanted to steal‚ what he pretends what was stolen from him. When‚ Nathan Ford and his new crew found out that Victor did not pay them for the job they had
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QUESTION Often in practice‚ necessity and private defence has always been confused. Discuss the fundamental differences between the two. DISCUSSION The two grounds of justification known as necessity and private defence are closely related. In both cases the perpetrator protects interests which are of value to her‚ such as life‚ physical integrity and property‚ against threatening danger. The distinctions between these two grounds of justification are the following (Snyman C.R: 2008): (1) the origin
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significant rigging in places. This stranglehold is fast being diluted. The first effort of developing a viable progressive alternative government was in the 1964 elections with the formation two political groupings (formative two party system) Nigerian National Alliance (NNA) and the United Grand Progressive Alliance (UGPA) which failed miserable to win the election due to partial boycott‚ widespread rigging and clandestine manoeuvrings of the incumbency. Such as the imposition of State of emergency
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Do you think the change from ‘provocation’ to ‘loss of control’ has changed the law for the better or moved too much in the opposite direction? Loss of self control is the new special and partial defence to murder‚ latter to the reform. The new defence was introduced by ss54 and 55 of the Coroners Justice Act 2009. This new defence replaces the old defence‚ better known as Provocation. Although introducing the new defence was designed to change the law for better (referencing to the old one)
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Comparative Education Volume 33 No. 1 1997 pp. 87± 95 The Environment of Crises in the Nigerian Education System CORDELIA C. NWAGWU ABSTRACT The Nigerian education system witnessed tremendous expansion between independence in 1960 and 1995. However‚ the rate declined after 1986 when economic depression resulted in the introduction of the Structural Adjustment Programme. A population explosion‚ frequent changes in the government due to military coups‚ a depressed economy and unplanned and uncontrolled
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FDI and Economic Growth: Evidence from Nigeria By Adeolu B. Ayanwale Department of Agricultural Economics Obafemi Awolowo University Ole-Ife‚ Nigeria AERC Research Paper 165 African Economic Research Consortium‚ Nairobi April 2007 THIS RESEARCH STUDY was supported by a grant from the African Economic Research Consortium. The findings‚ opinions and recommendations are those of the author‚ however‚ and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Consortium‚ its individual members or the
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Public International Law Case Study By: Benedicte Akambu Module Code: LG134 Student Number: 14553233 Question One a) Explain the concept of state sovereignty. When we look at the concept of state sovereignty‚ first of all we must look at the word sovereignty. We may ask ourselves questions like what does the word mean‚ what is the concept driven behind this word
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based economic system needs political institutions supportive of the free market concept. Thus Nigeria‚ like any other nation‚ has been involved in political engineering partly to achieve this goal. Like many other African economies‚ the Nigerian economy has been mixed. However‚ the level of government participation has been reducing in line with globalisation trend and market base resource rationalisation concept. In this spirit‚ the Federal Government sold its shares in many firms and privatized
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Judith Jarvis Thomson’s defence on abortion Most arguments concerning the abortion issue hinge on the moral status or standing of the fetus with respect to the rights it possesses and the obligations that are directly owed to it. These arguments typically fall into two commonly termed categories: pro-life and pro-choice. Pro-life advocates tend to place the status of the fetus first. They argue human beings including a fetus‚ have an intrinsic value that confers them the right not to be unjustly
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