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Plea Bargaining Procedures in Tanzania: An Analysis of the Efficacy of the Laws

The criminal justice in Tanzania is delivered to offenders through the established criminal justice system. It consists of series of government institutions like the police, prosecution services, defense attorneys, courts and prisons. However, due to increase of population and rate of crime in Tanzania, the criminal justice system encounters some challenges. The congestion in prisons […]

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An Analysis of the Anti-Corruption Legal Framework and the Capacity to Apprehend Public Sector Corruption in Nigeria

Nigeria is dealing with a variety of problems. These issues, which include poverty, insecurity, kidnapping, ethnic and religious strife, poor governance, and many more, can be linked to corruption. Despite the magnitude of its GDP, Nigeria gets one of the poorest ratings for governance and corruption. This performance is directly related to the fact that

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Enforcement of Informal Sector Taxation to Expand Revenue Base in Nigeria: A Review

This paper evaluates the enforcement of informal sector taxation. It shall focus on the self-employed and Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in order to expand revenue base in Nigeria. It attempts to answer the main question – how to bring into tax net, the hithertho untapped segment, called ‘’informal sector economy’’. Taxation sensitization of informal

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An Examination of the Dispute Settlement Mechanism within the Competition Legal Framework in Tanzania

Competition is an economics term which generates its origin from the ultimate point of view that excludes the seller from provision of services and or goods in a substandard manner while charging the consumers more. This is usually done by business firms as a market strategy in order to ensure their monopolization is sustained. The

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The Naija Factor in the Implementation of Public Private Partnership (PPP) Projects in Emerging Economies – The Nigerian Experience

The study examines local realities that militate against successful deliveries of PPP projects in emerging economies with particular reference to Nigeria’s PPP space. The Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) Act has, inter alia, expressly enabled the practice of PPP, defined the roles of stakeholders, and stipulated the minimum standard for PPP arrangements in Nigeria. In

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Women and Children as Victims of Acts of Terrorism in Nigeria

Terrorism is a global menace that transcend national boarders. It is targeted against government and its national security. Terrorism through the Boko Haram group first emerged as a religious jihadist group around 1999 in Nigeria. Few years down the lane in metamorphosed into a dangerous terrorist organisation, with its activities targeted against government organisations and

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The Institution of a “New Form” of Filiation in Cameroonian Law in the Light of Scientific and Technological Progress: Filiation by Medically Assisted Reproduction

Without creating a new Galileo trial, Law 2022/014 of 14 July 2022 relating to medically assisted reproduction (MAR) in Cameroon has enabled the legislature to encourage medically assisted reproduction while rejecting techniques for marketing or using human material that are contrary to fundamental rights, human dignity and ethics. The concept of surrogate motherhood (GPA), for

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The Legal Regime for the Conservation of Biodiversity in India: An Overview

India is a land of rich biodiversity including flora, fauna and aquatic animals. From a biodiversity angle, the whole country can be divided into 18 biosphere reserves and 4 of the 36 biodiversity hotspots. Western Ghats is the richest biodiversity zone in India consisting of 7402 species of flowering plants and 1814 species of non-flowering

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Land Administration in Nigeria and the Geographic Information System: An Overview of the Kaduna Geographic Information Service Law, 2015

The Kaduna Geographic Information Service (KADGIS) Law, 2015 enacted on 23rd December, 2015 replaced the Ministry of Lands, Surveys and Country Planning with the Kaduna Geographic Information Service (KADGIS). The KADGIS saddled with the administration of land in Kaduna State so performs such functions as the issuance of certificates of occupancy, registration of land transactions

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Petroleum Exploitation and the Question of Resource Curse in Nigeria: Has the Petroleum Industry Act 2021 played any Role?

The adoption of petroleum as an alternative source of energy by the turn out of the 19th Century has led to monumental development of the global economy of nations whether blessed with the resources or not. This has not been the case for Nigeria. As the 9th largest producer of crude oil and natural gas,

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