As at today, Nigeria has no principal legislation that specifically guarantees and protects digital rights. The first attempt bill thatseeks to guarantee and protect digital rights in Nigeria is the Digital Rights and Freedom Bill, 2019 which was rejected by the President Muhammadu Buhari. In the absence of the principal legislation that guarantees and protects digital rights in Nigeria. This paper seeks to review alternative pathways to enforce digital rights in Nigeria. The paper explores sections 37 and 39 of the Nigerian Constitution and other instruments which Nigeria has subscribed to, that guarantees and protects freedom of expression. The paper adopts doctrinal research methodology whereby descriptive approach is employed. The paper reveals some of the infringements on digital rights in Nigeria by the authorities and argues that any infringement on digital rights violates the fundamental right to privacy and freedom of expression by critically reviewing decisions of courts from various jurisdictions. The paper therefore recommends that: Digital Rights and Freedom Bill should be signed into law; and authorities should shun all sorts of infringements on digital rights.

The World is evolving. The society is changing. Ideas are set in place. Innovations are rising. Human energy and time are mostlyinvaluable, and it is sacrosanct to be reserved; as machines, robots are emerging and whereas taking over the territories of humanactivities. It is said that “machines aids our work to be easier and faster,” in this sense, artificial intelligence is a machine with thecompendium of human capacity and beyond, it’s programmed to think like humans and mimic their actions. It can be called an artificial human. Artificial Intelligence as an emerging area in technology, that is also covered by law and this area of law is an emerging area. Therefore, more to a profound exposure is captured in this paper work. This article magnetizes the meaning of Artificial intelligence, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence, the prospect, challenges, rights and liabilities.

Recently, there have been significant advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. In this era of intelligent machines, thepossibility for a machine to create intellectual work is no longer a mere imagination but a reality. It must be noted that until the advent of AI, intellectual creation and inventiveness were purely human activities, and their protection systems, that is, copyright law and patent law, were built on the basis of motivating and enhancing human creativity. However, the proliferation of AI capable of generating creative contents autonomously has challenged the traditional notion of intellectual property law, especially thedetermination of authorship and ownership of copyright content. In utilising the doctrinal research method, this article addresses the fundamental intersection of autonomous generative AI systems and copyright law. The article finds that the current copyright law only recognised human as author and therefore it will be difficult to treat AI as authors of their generated content under the current law. The article concludes by recommending that it is important to rethink the fundamental human-centric concepts of extant intellectual property laws and therefore suggest the enactment of a sui generis law on AI.

Devoid of any vituperations, it’s a truism to say that many people are green-horns in the area of intellectual property. Intellectual property is an emerging area of law and considering growing number of people harnessing their intellectual capacity and productivity, it’s worthwhile to know the rights accruing to such individuals and the duration of such rights. Nigeria being blessed with abundant natural resources is also blessed with talented people. Everyday we see upcoming artists being signed up, writers publishing their manuscripts and cinematographers producing their movies. However, many of these individuals do not have an idea about the rights they have over these IPs (intellectual property) nor the duration of such rights. This paper will appraise the tenable intellectual property rights and the duration of such rights using available legislations.

It has been observed that a recurring issue since the inception of local government administration in Nigeria has been the recalcitrant behavior of governors in their unconstitutional removal of democratically elected local government chairmen, whose offices are guaranteed under section 7 of the 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic Nigeria, which provides for the existence of the local government as the third tier of government. Thus, in these writers’ opinion, this section has been misinterpreted and rather taken to the very extreme by state governors who see local governments as mere appendages of the state government and subject to the whims and caprices of the governor. As a result, there have been a ferocious control of the local government in areas of funding and administration. This has led to widespread agitations for a more independent third tier of government. Themost recent being the local government autonomy bill which aims at increasing the financial autonomy of the local government through the creation and maintenance of a special local government account into which all allocations shall be paid, as well as a separate savings account which would serve as a reserve, before subsequent disbursement to other tiers of government.

Customary arbitration as a mechanism of dispute resolution is not alien in Nigeria’s legal system. The practice of resolution of conflicts via the application of the customs and traditions of the local communities has been entrenched from time immemorial. Some scholars have rightly argued that customary arbitration is the oldest machinery of dispute resolution in Nigeria. Dispute resolution via customary arbitration has tremendous edges amongst which are minimal cost, speed, and absence of technicalities, which are related to the conventional method of dispute resolution. In spite of these intrinsic advantages, the practice of customary arbitration in Nigeria is faced with some concrete challenges, which have continuously blighted its growth as a viable mechanism of dispute resolution in Nigeria. These challenges are majorly precipitated by the extant judicial parameters imposed on the application of customary arbitration. Among other considerations, this paper identifies some of these practical challenges in order to set the tone for the calibration of the abysmal practice of customary arbitration in the Nigerian judicial setting.