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In Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. v. Moab Partners1, the U.S. Supreme Court recently resolved a split among U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal when it unanimously held...

The government says the existing Public Health Act can’t address emerging public health challenges

Why has the minister responsible for health taken more time than reasonable to regularize these “illegal” mandatory vaccination drives in the country?

“Medical laboratory services in the country form an integral and vital component of healthcare delivery with doctors and other clinicians basing more than 80 percent of patient treatment on...

The Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan held that the sections in which the minimum age limit prescribed by the Child Marriage Restraint Act (CMRA) 1929 for both girls and boys for marriage were not un-Islamic.

Introduction If there was any doubt that Nigeria is a failing State, the politics and pathology of the cow business now make it manifestly so. Nigeria is strutting towards a possible implosion, on account of growing lawlessness. In spite of many years of denial, leading members of the ruling APC now concede the obvious: Nigeria is largely an ungoverned territory. The Governor of Kaduna State, recently at a national dialogue, pointedly described Nigeria as a lawless State. He pointed to the abse...

If there was any doubt that Nigeria is a failing state, the politics and pathology of the cow business now make it manifestly so. Nigeria is strutting towards a possible implosion on account of growing lawlessness. In spite of many years of denial, leading members of the ruling APC now concede the obvious: Nigeria is largely an ungoverned territory. The Governor of Kaduna State, recently at a national dialogue, pointedly described Nigeria as a lawless state. He pointed to the absence of the mon...

Section 34 IPC if the facts prove that the crime has been committed in furtherance of a common intention. Section 149 IPC provides for vicarious liability of members of an unlawful assembly for the crime committed by any member of the assembly in furtherance of the common object and makes them liable for the same punishment. The condition for invoking this Section is that there should be five or more persons in the assembly. The Supreme Court was dealing with a situation where three out of the ...