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Item An Overview of the Concept of Legislative Assembly's immunity in Nigeria(Akungba Law Journal, Faculty of Law, Adekunle Ajasin University, 2009) Imam, Ibrahim; Abdulraheem-Mustaph, Mariam A; Olookoba, Saka MuhammedIn virtually all established and emerging democratic nations in the world today, there is some sort of immunity from prosecution for members of the Legislature, Congress, Bundestag or Parliament, often these rights are addressed in a country's constitution or statute. the legitimate purpose of this immunity is to allow legislators to freely express themselves and adopt policy position without fear of politically motivated retribution or molestation. this paper does examine legislative immunity in Nigeria, the justification for same putting in mind the fact that legislative business in modern democracy is now enormous and demanding. it concluded that immunity for legislature is ssignificant to guarantee free and progressive legislative business for development.Item An overview of the law, practice and prospects of African Development Bank(EBSU Journal of International Law & Judicial Review, Faculty of Law, Ebonyi State University, 2014) Imam, Ibrahim; Olookoba, Saka Muhammed; Olatoke, J. O.; Ijaiya, N. O. AOne of the concerted efforts of African treaties aimed at economic integration was the establishment of the African development bank (AFDB). The bank was established for the purpose of promoting economic and social development in Africa by providing loans and grants to African government regional member countries (RMC’s). However, as lofty as this aims are, there are some teething clogs barricading the functionality of the African development bank. The thrust of this paper therefore is to examine the origin and development of the bank vis-à-vis the law regulating its operations. In the final analysis, the paper posits that the working together of the African development bank. African development fund and Nigerian trust fund with other international organization like world trade organization (WTO) and the international monetary fund (IMF) would shape and accelerate the actualization of the functionality of the African development bank internationally.Item Sustainable development and rule of law: unlocking legislative committee's creativity(UNIZIK Law Journal, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Anambra, 2011) Imam, Ibrahim; Abdulraheem-Mustaph, Mariam A; Olookoba, Saka Muhammed; Owoade, A. A.In modern democracies, the legislature has numerous duties. As significant stage organ in any democratic development, it examines the legislative proposals in the process of their passage and is entrusted with overseeing executive responsibilities and keeps an eye on government activities. Legislative committee system is the most vital structure that permits the legislators or compartmentalize their labor and specialize in particular areas of activities. It is the most significant legislative mechanism and therefore commonly called “miniature legislatures” or “microcosms” of main legislative bodies. Therefore, this paper intends to analyze the function and role of the Nigerian legislative assembly committees in the post 1999 era to date and its contributions to sustainable development and rule of law through legislations. In doing so, this study identifies and examines the factors that has considerable influence in the working of the legislative committees in general and the Nigerian legislative assembly committee in particular. This paper considers the relationship between sustainable development and committee system in democratic society by, focusing on the national assembly. The goal is to identify the realm of committee’s function in legislative assembly and legislative process that are necessary for sustainable development in Nigeria societies where exclusive and holistic legislative action remain pervasive. Is it possible to employ committees system to achieve sustainable development?Item Sustainable development and rule of law: unlocking legislative committee's creativity(Journal of Contemporary Law, Department of Commercial and Property Law, Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria, 2012) Imam, Ibrahim; Olookoba, Saka Muhammed; Abdulraheem-Mustapha, Mariam A.Defamation is one of the actionable wrongs at common law that has to do with injury of character which is usually attribute to human beings. This paper examines if a company, being a juristic legal person also has power and authority like every other normal human being to institute action for defamation. In doing this, the paper examines the concept of juristic personality of a company, it is locus standi to sue for an action in defamation, legal provisions for the proof of defamation and gravity of injury to character that qualifies for defamation. This paper posits that even if there are administrative shortcomings in a company; that does not in any way extinguish her right to maintain an action for defamation sine the philosophy behind the recognition of the company’s right is the need to protect it from unjustifiable imputation which may affect and lower it in the estimation of the eyes of the right thinking members of the society.