1. INTRODUCTION Nigerian economy has passed through various developments from time immemorial with different economic policies. Before 1986, a medium-term “Development Plan” was adopted for key development frameworks aimed at restructuring the economy. For instance, the First National Development Plan (NDP) of 1962-1968 was propounded with the aim of Read more…
1.0. Introduction One of the most typical types of violence against women is domestic violence, often known as intimate partner violence. In all contexts, intimate partner violence affects a wide range of social, cultural, and religious groups. Violence in relationships is a possibility for both men and women. Read more…
1. Introduction The Nigeria Data Protection Bill, as released on 6th of October, 2022 by the Nigeria Data Protection Bureau, is a step towards the enactment of conclusive legislation on the subject of data protection. There have been several attempts to ensure the enactment of a Data Protection Bill in Read more…
In accordance with the powers conferred upon it under Section 61 of the Federal Inland Revenue Service Establishment Act, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) last year released the Non-Interest Finance (Taxation) Regulations 2022 (“NIFTR 2022”), with a commencement date of 1st April, 2022, to provide a fulcrum for the Read more…
1.0 Introduction The word ‘euthanasia’ was derived from two Greek words – ‘euthokos’ and ‘thantos’ which mean ‘cheerful’ and ‘death’ respectively. According to the Black’s Law Dictionary, euthanasia, which is also called ‘Mercy Killing’, is an act or practice of painlessly putting to death persons who suffer from painful and Read more…
ChatGPT (GPT standing for ‘Generative Pre-Trained Transformer’) is a large conversational dialogue and language model developed by OpenAI (an artificial intelligence research non-profit company, established in 2015 by Twitter owner Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba, and Sam Altman)which makes research and access to information smooth-sailing. The AI-powered chatbot came Read more…
Introduction Arbitration is a dispute resolution process agreed between parties that involves the submission of a dispute to one or more arbitrators who issue an award.[1] It is an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanism because it enables the parties to settle their conflict amicably and outside of the jurisdiction of the courts. Read more…
1. INTRODUCTION Nigerian economy has passed through various developments from time immemorial with different economic policies. Before 1986, a medium-term “Development Plan” was adopted for key development frameworks aimed at restructuring the economy. For instance, the First National Development Plan (NDP) of 1962-1968 was propounded with the aim of placing Read more…
We at HARLEM Solicitors are consistently living by the honour of our founding vision of service and humanity, of inclusion and diversity. Our Principal Partner, Babatunde I.G. Lawal, Esq., led a team of HARLEMITES to the Abuja FCT venue of the Call to Bar ceremony (on both Tuesday, 6th November, Read more…
Introduction The issue of penalty for crossing legal boundaries is one that has piqued the curiousity of many scholars for many years. Although it has been criticized as a form of penal sanction, imprisonment of offenders remains a common punishment for crime as authorized by local and international human rights Read more…