This article focuses on the extant corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. The oil and gas sector of Nigeria has been beset by a lot of problems not limited to violence, kidnappings, eco-terrorism, and maladministration amongst others. One way of...

Due to the failings of the regulatory framework in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) tend to act as watchdogs over the activities of government. This article focuses on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which has been localized in the...

Access to food is essential to human survival and the ‘right to food’ is a human right whose fulfilment impinges on the realization of most other human rights. Nigeria is a signatory to many international and regional treaties involving the right to food. Although the Nigerian constitution...

This paper focuses on the Agreement for the Establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). It argues that commercial activities in precolonial Africa was akin to the phenomenon of lex mercatoria in medieval Europe. It discusses two major tenets embedded in the AfCFTA: the...

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic across the world, it has been reported that older persons have suffered acute hardship and fatalities more than any other age group. According to the World Health Organisation the fatality rate among older persons is five times the global average, and...

Precolonial African societies and institutions also developed structures and norms that embodied the uniqueness of their own trading arrangements. This paper will discuss some of the wholly indigenous trading devices or mechanisms that related to commercial trading in precolonial era in...

Environmental justice is a new paradigm for achieving healthy and sustainable environment or communities and it is a culmination of more than 500 years of struggle by people of colour in the USA to achieve this (Ekhator 2014). Historically, environmental justice emerged as a counter measure to...

Multinational Corporations (MNCs) have been at the centre at the centre of scandals over poor labour standards. In many parts of the world, workers are subjected to bad working conditions. This paper advocates for the strengthening of the extant labour standard regime