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Item Legal reasoning and approach to problems(Decency Printers & Stationeries Limited. Ilorin, 2018) Ilesanmi, S. I.Item Role of environmental impact assessment act in achieving sustainable cities and communities in Nigeria(Department of Jurisprudence and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, 2018) Ilesanmi, S. I."Nigeria is a country endowed with cities and communities of great resources. Making these cities and communities sustainable in all ramifications, the environmental impact assessment (EIA) act 2004 is one of the legal instruments that has to be adhered to strictly. Initial moves of stakeholders on world concerns on the utilising environmental resources justly called for international conferences from World Summits from Stockholm to Nairobi to Rio and to Johannesburg. These international conferences have set paces for most nations of the world on the need to adopt and implement the concepts and policies of sustainable development. Nigeria was among States in the United Nations World submit where seventeen (17) sustainable development Goals were adopted in September, 2015 in New York, United States of America (USA). These goals are targeted towards eradicating unpleasant social, economic and environmental problems in all nations of the world by year 2030. Goal eleven (11) of the Sustainable Development Goals precisely provides for sustainable cities and communities. This article considers the essence of the Nigerian Environmental Impact Assessment Act to achieving goal eleven of among the seventeen SDGs. The articles considers the conceptual frameworks of both Environmental Impact Assessment and Sustainable development as well as the international frameworks on these concepts. This article further considers the development of EIA and SDGs in Nigeria together with peculiar nature of the country and its cities and community. The provisions of the EIA and other related legal frameworks are examined to harness their essence with achieving the sustainable cities and communities. Impediments to enforcing the provisions of the EIA towards achieving sustainable cities and communities are considered. The article also juxtapose EIA in three jurisdictions with Nigeria’s efforts to implement the EIA provisions with aims of achieving sustainable cities and communities. This articles concludes with observations and recommendations that will enhance enforcement of EIA towards achieving sustainable cities and communities in Nigeria"Item Customary law, the environment and sustainable development(2019) Ilesanmi, S. I."The environment is one of the essential sources for human sustainability. Although the concept of environment is a very wide one, the nexus between customary law and the environment is of great importance. Customary law has been deemed to be of no direct link with the environment and sustainable development. This article considers the linkage and importance of the three concepts, though with wider jurisprudential debates. This article strictly considers importance of customary law to environment and sustainable development in Nigeria as well as United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) on the need to engage the indigenous people on achieving basic sustainable development goals. The article uses both indigenous people as well as native people to derive home the importance of the peoples‟ customs and beliefs. To achieve the goals of sustainable development in Nigeria, there is need to incorporate customary laws in Nigeria. The contributions of indigenous people at various ethnic setting in Nigeria are very important, because these people are the custodians of the customary laws which have been made applicable over times on certain aspects of the environment"Item Challenges of enforcement of judgments of ECOWAS community court of justice on human rights in Nigeria(Department of Jurisprudence and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, 2015) Ilesanmi, S. I.The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is a sub-regional international organisation with primary aim of promoting economic Cooperation and championing the economic integration of the member states within the ECOWAS Community. The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice is a judicial organ of the ECOWAS with general jurisdictions to adjudicate on specific matters, among which is matter on human rights within the ECOWAS Community. Nigeria is one of the member States of the ECOWAS and the Community Court’s judgments are bound to be enforced in Nigeria as one of the member States. This article looks into clarification of concepts on the challenges on enforcement of the judgments of ECOWAS Community Court of justice on human rights in Nigeria. The article further considers jurisdiction of the ECOWAS Community Court of human rights on human rights in Nigeria and other community members, few Nigeria human rights cases decided in the Community Court, that relate to the challenges of enforcing the judgments of the Court, and some challenges on enforcement of the ECOWAS Community Court in Nigeria, like constitutional supremacy of the Nigerian Constitution, executive interference, corruption in the polity, technicalities of enforcing judgments, financial burden and weak measure for compliance with treaties. The way forward to the challenges on enforcement of the judgments are considered in order to proffer better solutions to the challengesItem Environmental damage arising from oil operations in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria(Department of International Law and Jurisprudence Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, 2017-09) Hechime, N. E.; Ilesanmi, S. I.The oil industry located within the NigerDelta región of Nigeria has contributed immensely to the growth and development of the nation’s economy over the past five decades but unsustainable oil prospecting, exploration, development and production activities have rendered this unique parí of the country one of the five most severely petroleum damaged ecosystems in the world. The Niger Delta consists of diverse ecosystems of mangrove swamps, fresh water swamps and rain forest. It is the largest wetland in Africa and among the ten most important wetland and marine ecosystems in the world. However, due to oil pollution arising from oil spillage and gas flaring the area is now characterized by contaminated streams and rivers, forest destruction and biodiversity loss. In general, the area is an ecological wasteland. This affeets the livelihood of the host communities who depend on the ecosystem Services for survival leading to increased poverty, adverse human health ejfects and socio-economic problems. The govemment has formulated legislations for protection of the environment from detrimental impaets of oil operations, but these musí be made effective in terms of implementation, enforcement and monitoring by responsible agencies. This paper discusses the several impaets that oil exploration and production have had on the environment of the Niger Delta Región of Nigeria, and examines the efforts made by the government and multinational oil companies to remedy the situation