CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW & POLICY REPORTS WITH SUPPORT FROM AFRICAN MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVES
INDEX TO CUSTOMARY LAW AND RELIGION CASES CONNECTED TO NIGERIAN CHILDREN AND WOMEN
TITLE | MAIN ISSUES |
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Education and young people – falsification of students’ academic credentials by college principal – attitude of courts thereto |
IROMACHI v. QUEEN |
Girl child and Murder – Women and Education – Desire of mother for her daughter conflicting with the desire of her marriage suitors – Subsequent murder of girl – Accusation that she was strangulated to death by spurned suitor – How treated |
Women in Business – Education – Effect on transactions and judicial proceedings | |
KING V BAILEY |
Children and Education/Justice Administration/Security – Children and Sexual Offences – Little boys in school– Principal accused of multiple indecent assault on his young charges – Proof – Standard of corroboration required to sustain charge – How treated |
OBUMSELU V. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE
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Children and Right to Life/Justice Administration – Young People and Healthcare – Unlawful abortion-related death of pregnant young university female – Death occasioned by assault designed to get rid of baby – Liability of boyfriend of deceased whose room was used for the act “What the evidence amounts to is that an attractive and popular girl of strong personality finds herself pregnant; when her lover asks what is to be done she says he shouldn’t worry, that she can look after herself, and it is not suggested that she means by this that she can bear the child without his concerning himself in the matter. Later she persuades him to allow her the use of his room, and to stay away himself, so that someone whose name she does not disclose, and who evidently wishes to keep his or her identity secret, may do what is necessary to procure her miscarriage; she uses her lover’s room so that the girl with whom she shares her own room may not be in the way. There may be exceptional occasions in which a lawful operation would be carried out in this hole-and-corner way, but there is nothing to indicate that this was anything but the ordinary case of an unmarried girl getting rid of an unwanted child, and we consider that the evidence amply justified the conclusion that the operation was, to the appellant’s knowledge, unlawful.” Per Brett, FJ |
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Women and Justice Administration – Divorce, Customary Law and Education – Bini customary law of marriage – A husband’s petition for divorce on ground of subsisting customary law marriage between wife and a third party – Whether receipt of dowry from suitor by father of an educated young woman without her consent constitutes a marriage without more – How treated |
THE REGISTERED TRUSTEES OF INTERNATIONAL SECONDARY SCHOOL, ORLU & ANOR v. BICOZ OIL COMPANY NIGERIA LIMITED & ORS |
Education of young people – Planned erection of hotel/brothel – Pre-emptive effort to stop same for the protection of the students and enhancement of their learning experience – How treated |
UBEKU V. UBEKU |
Women and customary law/Justice Administration – Education of women and effect on arranged Marriages where love never developed – Bride price and other expensive marriage celebrations under customary law – Whether it promotes/perpetuates the treatment of married women as chattels – Effect on marital relations – Implications for stability of family life and divorce rates – Whether “there is a crying need for a change in customary law of marriage across Nigeria” – Whether the applicability of the Marriage Act for all intents and purposes is foreign to any of the sectional customary laws in Nigeria |
Education and young people – Access to tertiary education – Legal protection from academic victimisation in tertiary institutions – Relevant considerations | |
UPETIRE V A.G. WESTERN NIGERIA |
Women and Murder – Women and Education of children – Murder of woman’s 2 children by relative peeved at not being given money to marry as requested from mother of children |
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Women and business – Women Educators (Tertiary institutions) – Amorous relationship between older/Irish/Catholic teacher and younger/Nigerian/Muslim student – When not improper – Assertion of contractual relations in those circumstances – How proved – Claim of indebtedness and negligent use of property arising therefrom – How treated by court |
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