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The effect of the eggshell rule is that a tortfeasor shall be unable to limit the extent of his liability for damage with the defense that the victim had a pre-existing condition that aggravated the injury or damage beyond the reasonably foreseeable degree.

One of the most constant sources of inter-governmental wrangles, which any federal system is likely to confront is the distribution of financial resources among the various levels of government.

The political narrative of "Old Order, New Order and Reform Order" still tends to carry out "bourgeois selection" about which ones are retained as memories and which ones must be forgotten. The Jokowi era had to let go of those shackles.

The Regulatory Oversight for Mergers and Acquisitions in Nigeria is vested in the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (the ‘Commission’ or FCCPC) by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2018 (FCCPA or Act).

It is important to note that the specific impacts of road taxation in Nigeria can vary depending on the design of tax policies, the effectiveness of revenue collection and allocation mechanisms, and the overall governance and management of road infrastructure

While examiners examine, adjusters investigate. They are expected to physically inspect damage and act as impartial advisers, giving clear and unbiased conclusions as to the liability or lack thereof of the Insurer. Apart from physical inspections, they are also expected to question witnesses or visit places incidental to the damage to form a well-rounded opinion…

Whenever a crime is committed, someone is responsible for the crime. Someone is also the victim of the crime. However, when an innocent person is convicted wrongly, there is a new victim of the crime.

The principle of fair dealing and fair use allows a user to copy a work without the owner’s permission subject to certain limitations.

The offence of murder is not alien to us, and as such our laws in its form of dynamism have devised means to curb such menace in society. One of these means of getting rid of murder in our society is through the instrumentality of the doctrine of last seen. This presumption of fact known as the doctrine of last seen, which is based on circumstantial evidence, was developed by the Supreme Court. Statutorily, this presumption could be found in section 167 of the Evidence Act.

This article has laid a foundation for the issue of cargo claims in line with its limitations and surrounding issues, as enumerated above. It is submitted that while the current situation in the ambiguity of the applicability of both rules continues; it is in the best interest of the national law-making body (that is, the National Assembly of Nigeria) to go back and take the following actions.