Sokunbi Adetoyese Politics of Political and Constitutional Reforms in Nigeria. Andrew Heywood in his book, Global Politics (2010) identifies that politics, in its broadest sense, he defines it as the activity through which people make, preserve and amend the general rules under which they live. As such, politics is inextricably linked to the concepts of conflict and cooperation, which means politics is a social phenomenon with the characteristics of both struggle between opposing groups,
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national: no police department in the country is known to be completely free of misconduct. Yet it must be fought locally: the nation's 19,000 law enforcement agencies are essentially independent. Nowadays every type of thing that is seen as wrong in the aspect of a group is considered to be a criminal activity The state of California, for instance, has created 1,000 new crimes in the past 25 years, while Michigan currently has 3,102 crimes on the books. New York City alone has 10,000 crimes, rules and codes
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CONTENT PREFACE …………………………………………………………………….…..…3 CHAPTER 1 Theoretical basics of mergers and acquisitions processes………..........5 1.1. The economic substance of M&A ………………………………………………5 1.2. Financing M&A…………………………………………………………………9 1.3. Valuation matters……………………………………………………………….11 1.4. M&A failure……………………………………………………………………13 CHAPTER 2 International M&A experience..............................................................16 2.2. The M&A
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Strengthening the Ombudsman Institution in Asia Improving Accountability in Public Service Delivery through the Ombudsman About the Asian Development Bank ADB’s vision is an Asia and Pacific region free of poverty. Its mission is to help its developing member countries reduce poverty and improve the quality of life of their people. Despite the region’s many successes, it remains home to two-thirds of the world’s poor: 1.8 billion people who live on less than $2 a day, with 903 million struggling
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Juvenile Justice Prevention Act will help local state and county municipalities’ kick-start programs to assist today’s youth. Keywords: juvenile delinquents, incarceration, racial disparity, juvenile justice, racial discrimination, jail, juvenile courts The history of juvenile delinquency and racial disparity has gone hand in hand for a very long time and appears to have no end in sight. The first thing that needs amending is the mind set of people that feel one race of people is better than
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1777 Congress adopted The Article of Confederation. This attempt to structure an American government failed; The Article of Confederation was unsuccessfully because it restricted the national government; most power was concentrated on the states’ level. The states kept their autonomy. The national government was lack of authority, it was hard to collect taxes from each state; foreign trade was suffering because foreign counties which wanted to conduct business with the United States had to negotiate
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On Sunday, March 29th 2013 an ExxonMobil pipeline that was carrying crude oil burst leaving the backyards of homes destroyed, and causing the residents to evacuate; thousands of barrels of heavy crude oil flowed from the pipeline and vandalized the town (CNN.com). Occurring mainly in Mayflower, Arkansas and on March 31, people living in the homes were forced to leave due to the unhealthy living conditions that the pipeline created. (CNN.com) The residents of this town filed a class-action lawsuit
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overwhelming 97% of votes in favor of the non binding referendum favoring statehood. With statehood on the horizon, it is time to reorganize their government in hope of rebuilding what was lost. One of the most important aspects that we will explore here, is how to organize their court system from bottom to top. A strong judicial branch will be the glue that will hold everything together through the enforcement of legislation. Puerto Rico partly collapsed because rules and regulations were not implemented
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Introduction: Courts today are backlogged by months and sometimes even years, as a result, it is now commonplace to use Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) to resolve these disputes. More agreements often contain mandatory arbitration provisions that are legally binding and enforceable. In addition, almost every court or administrative agency empowered to hear cases now requires mediation as part of the formal adjudication process (Spangler, 2003). Abstract: Arbitration plays a
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Email: mtladan@gmail.com Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 License TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Introduction Brief Overview of the Development of Environmental Law in Nigeria Major Drawbacks of the Defunct Federal Environmental Protection Agency (FEPA) Act and Regulations 1991-2006 Lessons Learnt Establishment of NESREA: A New Dawn 5.1 Mandate and Powers of NESREA 5.2 Enforcement Powers of NESREA 5.3 Rationale for the 2009 - 2011
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