Aisha Sani Maikudi

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Full) at University of Abuja

In a highly unusual move, The Gambia on 11 November 2019 with the full support of the 57-member Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), filed a lawsuit case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing Myanmar of perpetrating a genocide on ethnic Rohingya Muslims which forced hundreds of thousands to flee the Asian nation. This case is...

This article will analyse the Shari’ah Judicial System. Islam is a divine religion which deals with different issues related to all human needs, material and spiritual. Islam is not a set of rituals. It is both a religion and a perfect way of life. For a non-Muslim, religion may be a private relationship between man and his creator. But for a Musli...

2 With tensions in Syria and the Korean peninsula at their highest in two decades, it becomes imperative to analyse the concept of collective security. With the exception of economic sanctions authorized under Article 41, the system of collective security as envisioned in Chapter VII of the UN Charter is dormant. This article seeks to analyse the e...

Law conditions how we conceive of and conduct war. By drawing a line between war and peace and between permissible and impermissible uses of force, the legal framework governing warfare stabilizes mutual expectations among the warring parties as to their future behavior on the battlefield. Hybrid Warfare is a notion that has the potential to change...

The United States and its allies based their legal basis for the 2003 war against Iraq on Security Council authorisation. Over time, the principal justifications originally given for the war have lost much of their force. The United States and their allies have toyed with the idea of other possible factors on which this war could be justified. They...

The idea of the state lies at the core of international relations and international law, and the concept of sovereignty lies at the core of the concept of the state. An essential link between globalization and the nation state is the concept of sovereignty. Through globalization, technological, economic, and political advances have severely abridge...

The question of the legality of the 2003 war against Iraq is a contentious matter amongst lawyers. It demonstrated the law’s ambiguity for both the anti-war and pro-war groups claimed that the law was on their side . Seven (7) years after the war, the issues of jus in bello (actual conduct of armed conflict) and jus ad bellum (legality of the use o...

In its quest to determine how much is enough to guarantee deterrence and the security of its nation, North Korea is running a tight line between deterrence and escalation. Given the enormity of the threat posed by North Koreas nuclear tests to the peace and stability of the region, the situation is wrought with political, diplomatic and military di...

Peacekeeping is a lifesaving undertaking. It is vital for fostering global peace and stability and has contributed to reducing the number of ongoing wars in the last three decades. Since the end of the Cold War, Peace interventions have grown massively into a complex global undertaking resulting in traditional peacekeeping being under tremendous st...

International law and the rule of law are the foundations of the international system and the Security Council is the most powerful international body. This article argues that in fulfilling its mandate of international peace and security, economic development and social progress, the Security Council is most legitimate and effective when it submit...

From the Cold War until the present day, the fact that the United Nations has failed to live up to the lofty expectations of its framers can be attributed in significant part to the threat and exercise of the veto by the Permanent Five members of the Council. Twenty years of negotiation over reform of the United Nations Permanent Five Veto power is...

The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is an intricate and developing norm of international law that seeks to provide a means for the international community to prevent crimes against humanity occurring within the boundaries of a sovereign state. Under R2P the use of force is reserved for actions within the United Nations Charter's Chapter VII framewo...

Oil and Gas Agreements and Dispute Arbitration: Discerning the Intentions of the Parties from the framework of the Agreement and the circumstances of the Dispute what the Arbitrators can do in interpreting the applicable Law in resolving Disputes The General Introduction International commercial Oil and Gas arbitration can be defined as commercia...

Terrorism is a global phenomenon and can arise from almost any situation and in various forms. This article discusses the evolving threats of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD's) terrorism and proliferation, that is, Biological, Chemical, and Nuclear weapons and their mode of delivery: missiles, along with the numerous multilateral treaty regimes of...

This article focuses on terrorism as a changing pattern of conflict in Africa and the role that International Humanitarian Law (IHL) plays. It does this by analysing the rise of terrorist insurgency through guerilla warfare and terrorist attacks, international (territorial) armed conflicts and non-international (internal) armed conflicts in Africa,...

Despite its oil wealth and large economy, Nigeria's population is amongst Africa's poorest, and the distribution of wealth is highly unequal. The twin evils of illicit money, that is, corruption and insecurity, have led to multi-consequential and catastrophic effects in the form of economic recession, political and administrative mismanagement of t...

The presumption that courts are the principal forum for dispute resolution continues to be eroded because alternative forms of dispute resolution (ADR) continue to proliferate and are increasingly institutionalized. Interestingly, despite these developments, the position of a rights-based approach on two key questions regarding ADR is unclear. Thes...

Trafficking in children is a global phenomenon that takes place across all regions of the world. It is a hideous crime that involves gross violations of human rights which threatens children's survival and development. This article examines the international and national legal framework for the protection of children in Nigeria. It finds that thoug...

At least in the contemplation of law, it is settled that a corporation is an artificial and intangible being with a distinct legal personality of its own. However, it is the natural human agents, generally designated as directors, who use their own human mind, knowledge, intelligence, and body to manage the company. This is why directors and other...

The discovery of natural resources particularly oil and natural gas usually heralds the hope of accelerated economic growth and correspondingly greater prosperity for all. In reality however, in many resource-rich countries natural resources have been more of a curse and obstacle to development than a catalyst to economic growth and wholesome socia...