Salim Bashir Magashi

LEGAL AND ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES TO JOURNALISM PRACTICE IN NIGERIA: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

The agitation for marginalization among some ethnic and to some extent, religious groups in Nigeria has become a common trend in recent times. These agitations have taken the dimension of majority-minority divides depending on who is in power. The media is largely to blame for this divide because of the manner in which law and ethics of media pract...

AN EXAMINATION OF THE USE OF HUMAN REASONING (IJTIHAD) AS A SOURCE OF LAW IN THE EARLY PERIOD OF DEVELOPMENT OF ISLAMIC LAW

In Islamic law, the express textual injunction in the Quran and Sunnah are - limited in number, while the incidents and problems of life are unlimited and unending. It would therefore be unreasonable and illogical to assert that all the problems and exigencies of life will be covered by the textual injunction. Reason demands that rules of law shoul...

IMPLEMENTING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: GOOD GOVERNANCE AS AN APPROACH

This paper examines the importance of good governance in the realisation of the right to development. Basically, the paper argues that cormuption is a bane to good governance and consequently. to the realisation of the right to development. Thus, in line with international best practices and with or without the justiciability of human rights before...