Browsing by Author "Abdulraheem-Mustapha, M.A"

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    An Empirical Assessment of the Extent of Compliance with the Composition of Family Court under the Nigerian Child Rights Act, 2003A
    (Published by the Department of Legislative Support Services, National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, National Assembly, Abuja., 2023) Abdulraheem-Mustapha, M.A
    Juvenile justice administration is an important component of social and distributive jus tice that focused on the well-being and welfare of children. Ordinarily in Nigeria, a child below the age of eighteen who is in conflict with the law or beyond parental control/in need of care and protection may have his/her case determined in the Family/Juvenile court. However, such a child may not get justice because of the absence of experienced hands in the mater. It is in the light of this that the major legal frameworks that regulate the administration of juvenile justice in Nigeria advance/promote mixed tribunal in the Family/Juvenile courts. However, in practice, the practice and procedure vary in the Family/Juvenile courts, resulting to injustice to a lot of juveniles as large number of them technically fall outside the scope and protection of these laws. Against this background, this paper assesses the level of implementation of the mixed tribunal in the administration of juvenile justice and analyzes the inherent problems and challenges faced by juvenile offenders in the procedural process of their trials in Nigeria. With the aid of a qualitative research methodology, the paper finds that the level of compliance with mixed tribunal is very low. It therefore recommends the reform of the regulatory frameworks on mixed tri bunals in order to state the roles of assessors/lay judges and benchmarks for their com positions and sizes in the administration of juvenile justice in Nigeria. Keywords: Corrective Institution, Family/Juvenile Court, Juvenile Justice Administra tion, Juvenile Offenders, Mixed Tribunal
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    Reflecting on the Effect of COVID-19 on Access to Tertiary Education for Persons with Disability: Nigerian Colleges of Education in Perspective
    (Published by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, 2023) Abdulraheem-Mustapha, M.A
    Persons with disability continue to be marginalized and discriminated against by the trend of non-inclusion of ‘special education’ in the curriculum of almost all Colleges of Education in Nigeria despite the promulgation of special regulatory frameworks that protect their right to access equal tertiary education. Surprisingly, COVID-19 pandemic has called for reflection on the access to tertiary education for persons with disability in Nigeria. This is as a result of the introduction of new models of e-learning and virtual teaching. Thus, a shift of emphasis to inductive education as against segregated approach is imperative. Arguably, the stigmatization of person with disability in the traditional face-to-face learning will be reduced as the introduction of these models by the pandemic serves as protection against any barrier and discrimination to access tertiary education in Nigeria. Against this background, this article makes an empirical investigation on the extent of compliance of Colleges of education with regulatory frameworks on access to tertiary education for persons with disability with the new teaching strategies/models which COVID-19 has uncovered. The article reveals that the non-inclusion of special education in 112 Colleges of Education in Nigeria out of 113 Colleges is a grave impediment to the achievement of the goal of “Education for All.” It concludes that the recent development of mandatory e-learning and virtual teaching will go a long way to enhance equal right to tertiary education for persons with disability in Nigeria as the model holds great potential to be an avenue for their inclusion in learning. The article recommends political will to implement the provisions of the extant regulatory frameworks on ‘special education’ and the initiation of programmes for the training of support personnel and teachers/lecturers for the Colleges of Education in Nigeria. Keywords: Access to Tertiary education, Colleges of education, COVID-19 pandemic, Special education, Persons with disability, Regulatory framework
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    Untying the Predictive Factors of Juvenile De- linquency: A Global Analysis.
    (Published by Department of Jurisprudence and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin., 2013) Abdulraheem-Mustapha, M.A