The Power of the Attorney-General to Enter a nolle prosequi Under the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria: An Analysis of the Issues Involved
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 2, December 2021
Pages:
41-54
Received:
22 August 2020
Accepted:
10 November 2020
Published:
9 July 2021
Abstract: The 1999 Nigerian Constitution bestows on the Attorney-General the power to enter a nolle prosequi in criminal proceedings. Since the coming into effect of the Constitution above on 29 May 1999, some Attorneys-General in Nigeria have hidden under the Constitution above to free persons standing trial in court for serious criminal offences through the exercise of the constitutional power of nolle prosequi for their selfish interest or political considerations or selfish or vested interest of Nigerian leaders or other interest other than the interest of justice, contrary to section 174 (3) or section 211 (3) of the Constitution above. This article analyses the issues involved in the constitutional power above. The research methodology adopted is mainly doctrinal analysis of applicable primary and secondary sources. The article finds that the exercise of the constitutional power above for the selfish interest or political considerations of the Attorney-General is unconstitutional. The article concludes that the problem of some Attorneys-General in Nigeria entering nolle prosequi in criminal trials under the Constitution above for their selfish interest or political considerations and so on under the guise or subterfuge of entering nolle prosequi in the public interest and so on should be effectively addressed or tackled in Nigeria. The article recommends the subjection of the exercise of the constitutional power above to the permission of the court in line with the approach in other countries, including the United States of America (USA) and Kenya.
Abstract: The 1999 Nigerian Constitution bestows on the Attorney-General the power to enter a nolle prosequi in criminal proceedings. Since the coming into effect of the Constitution above on 29 May 1999, some Attorneys-General in Nigeria have hidden under the Constitution above to free persons standing trial in court for serious criminal offences through th...
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Role of School in Promoting Sustainable Mental Health of Students - A Qualitative Study
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 2, December 2021
Pages:
55-60
Received:
9 April 2021
Accepted:
10 May 2021
Published:
10 November 2021
Abstract: Every individual aspire to live a healthy and prosperous life free of diseases and disorders. Living a healthy life implies not necessarily a physical state of well-being, but also it includes one’s good mental health too. A person may be born with a predisposition to a mental health disorder or he or she may acquire disorders due to negative influences from environments during his or her lifetime. Therefore shaping someone’s state of mind in a positive way, addressing mental, emotional or behavioral problems from a very early age is extremely important. Quite naturally, influence of schools in this regard is immense and a supportive, flourishing school environment act to a great extent to promote mental health of a child positively. Present studyaims to understand and highlight key aspects from the responses that come up as specific measures or activities taken by school or teachers for good mental health of the children and also to find out different measures/activities taken by a school or the teachers for promotion of positive and sustainable mental health among the students The method employed being the Interview method and the tool used being the Questionnaire designed by the researcher for interviewing teachers in a high school. Interviews of five assistant teachers of the school were conducted based on the questionnaire prepared and their responses were noted on the questionnaire. Qualitative analysis of the quantitative interpretation of the data collected were discussed to achieve in depth understanding of the role played by school in promoting sustainable mental health of a student.
Abstract: Every individual aspire to live a healthy and prosperous life free of diseases and disorders. Living a healthy life implies not necessarily a physical state of well-being, but also it includes one’s good mental health too. A person may be born with a predisposition to a mental health disorder or he or she may acquire disorders due to negative influ...
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Investigating the Marshall-Lerner’s Condition Regarding the Intermediate Goods Importing in Iran’s Economy
Shaban Mostafaee,
Hasan Aama,
Parvaneh Kamali Dehkordi
Issue:
Volume 7, Issue 2, December 2021
Pages:
61-68
Received:
6 October 2021
Accepted:
28 October 2021
Published:
19 November 2021
Abstract: The Marshal-Lerner’s condition is an answer to this question: Can a devaluation of the currency improve the balance of payments (net export value) in the country's interest? This condition is with some hypotheses that one of them is the independence of exports from imports. Concerning the statistical evidences of Iran’s economy based on the statistics of the Central Bank, it is specified that more than 80 percent of Iran’s imported goods are the intermediate goods (investing and intermediate). Therefore, in this research, we have examined the mentioned condition by considering exports as a function of imports. Firstly, regarding the exports as the function of imports, the Augmented Marshal-Lerner’s condition has been extracted, then for investigating the Marshal-Lerner’s condition in Iran using the Auto-Regression Distributed Lag (ARDL) during the 1961-2020, we have estimated the demand functions of import and export. The scientific results of the study show that by violating the condition of independence of exports and imports, an amount equal to the elasticity of imports relative to the real exchange rate in the elasticity of exports relative to imports is added to the Marshall-Lerner’s condition. The experimental results of the research, based on the estimation of the extractive model of the scientific sector, do not confirm the establishment of the Augmented Marshall-Lerner condition in the Iranian economy. Therefore, the devaluation policy cannot help improve the trade balance.
Abstract: The Marshal-Lerner’s condition is an answer to this question: Can a devaluation of the currency improve the balance of payments (net export value) in the country's interest? This condition is with some hypotheses that one of them is the independence of exports from imports. Concerning the statistical evidences of Iran’s economy based on the statist...
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