ir.bowen.edu.ng:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/476 These are articles published in journals by academics staff and postgraduate students in the Law programme Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:17:57 GMT 2026-04-05T04:17:57Z ir.bowen.edu.ng:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/2523 Title: Hazardous wastes control in Nigeria: A legal analysis Authors: Emejuru, Emenike; Empire, Hechime Nyekwere Abstract: Wastes, whether in solid or any form, are generated by the activities of man. Hazardous wastes, as the name applies, are not only inimical to human health but to the ecosystem and the entire human environment because of its pollutant nature. The unchecked activities of man has severally led to the degradation of human environment at all levels of human activities both domestic, industrial, etc, hence the need to fashion out regulatory regime to check and police the human activities occasioning the discharge of hazardous wastes into the environment. This work therefore examines the control and management of hazardous wastes in Nigeria through legal instruments in order to know whether Nigeria has actually had sufficient legal vigour to combat the menace of hazardous wastes. This work considers, of course, not all legal instruments on hazardous wastes in Nigeria but some of the laws and international conventions on the control of hazardous wastes particularly as it affects Africa. This work x-rays major sources of hazardous waste in Nigeria. This work furthermore, spotlights, inter alia, the collection of hazardous wastes; the treatment of hazardous wastes, and the disposal of hazardous wastes in Nigeria via legal instrumentalities. It lings on Federal and not State’s legal instruments. Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT ir.bowen.edu.ng:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/2523 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z ir.bowen.edu.ng:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/2522 Title: Nigerian capital market: Issues, problems and prospects Authors: Oladele, Olayiwola O. Abstract: This article appraises the legal and institutional frameworks of the Nigerian Capital Market and the extent to which the market has achieved the purposes of those frameworks. It identifies some core issues and problems faced by the market and investors which include ensuring certainty of contract and protection of property rights of investors, efficacy of information disclosure by publicly quoted companies in prompting investment and securing the value of investment, protecting investors from unfair practices by corporate insiders and professionals, and systemic protection against financial failure of market professionals and participating financial institutions. It found the regulatory institutions and law adequate in structure and contents. However, it established that information disclosed by securities issuers is to complex for the understanding of most retail investors. Added is weak enforcement regime in the face of which regulation failed to prevent abuse of securities clearing and settlement procedure, market rigging and other manipulative activities of core market operators and corporate insiders, including violation of margin regulations through excessive insider borrowings and securing of repayment of bank loans with the securities purchased with the loans, with contagious effect resulting in failure of the lending institutions. It concludes that the market has prospects, but demands purposeful regulation to ensure fair, efficient and transparent dealings for the protection of investors and the economy. Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT ir.bowen.edu.ng:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/2522 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z ir.bowen.edu.ng:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/2394 Title: Audit committee in corporate governance Authors: Oladele, O. O. Abstract: There is an increasing effort globally to combat fraud and malpractices in companies so as to make corporate dealings trustworthy. The effort calls for ensuring the integrity of companies' financial statements, compliance with accounting standards and legal requirements as well as institutionalizing of qualitative and effective internal control and risk management policies. To achieve all of these, law and policy in leading and emerging markets require every public company to intermediate the relationship between the auditors and management of audited companies by setting up an audit committee or its equivalent with clearly defined facilitative functions. This article evaluates the conceptual basis for composition, duties, rights and ethics of audit committees to determine the latter's suitability to contemporary and emerging challenges, considering that auditing is a professional engagement with legal and professional ethics implication. It does so with a view to recommending a framework that will not make the committees exist merely as another layer of ineffective bureaucracy. From a transatlantic to global survey, it rests on the Nigerian situation. In Nigeria, the present appraisal finds a contemporarily weak, as well as purposed to achieve independence and balance of power audit committee. That committee is recyclable yearly through a democratic system that is prone to making subjective and wrong choices in the absence of comprehensive regulatory guidelines. That committee has an open-ended mandate, and is required to serve gratuitously, subject to no liability for shirking. It is submitted that the committee, as presently constituted and mandated, is unsuitable to the emerging functions of audit committees. In the light of this finding, this article submits a ways out of the current global corporate failures arising from unethical and totally criminal financial statements' manipulation, as well as weak internal controls over regulatory compliance. That path begins with a paradigm shift in the need for composition, role, duties, rights and liability of audit committees. Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT ir.bowen.edu.ng:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/2394 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z ir.bowen.edu.ng:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/2393 Title: The Nigerian capital market regulation Authors: Oladele, O. O. Abstract: The capital market is a vital instrument of economic growth. It is a market where capital funds (equity and debt) are traded. Thus, it offers corporate business organizations and government the forum and means to raise long-term funds at a cheaper cost than that of the money market. The Nigerian Capital Market is an important market in Africa, second only to the South African market in terms of sophistication and market capitalization. Government and self-regulatory organizations regulate the capital market because of its importance to the economic growth of the country. The regulation seeks to ensure that the market is fair, efficient and transparent to such an extent as to adequately protect investors and the economy, the latter from the systemic effect of market failure. This article presents an overview of the Nigerian Capital Market and its regulatory structure. It defines a capital market and discusses the functions of a capital market, as well as the objectives for the establishment of the Nigerian Capital Market. It traces the evolution of the capital market as well as its regulation, and evaluates the current structure for regulating the market and for selling disputes among market participants. In conclusion, it offers suggestions for a more effective regulation of the market, so as to enable it cope with new challenges. Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT ir.bowen.edu.ng:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/2393 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z