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    Strides in reforms of workmen’s compensation law in Nigeria
    (School of Law & Security Studies, Babcock University Ilishan - Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria, 2009-01) Anifalaje, K.
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    Probative value of evidence in forensic trials in Nigeria
    (Faculty of Law, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria, 2009-01) Anifalaje, K.
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    Reflections on legal controls of financial distress in Nigerian banks
    (Department of Private and Commercial Law, Faculty ofLaw, Olabisi Onabanjo Ur.iversity, Ago-lwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria, 2003) Anifalaje, K.
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    Critical appraisal of contract of employment under the Nigerian legal system
    (2009) Onakoya, O. O.
    Ever since the abolition of slavery, workers have become entitle to the freedom to determine what work they would warn to do and also ascertain the terms and conditions upon which their Services are being hired. Consequently, it is noted that Labour Law rest heavily upon the legal phenomenon, the individual contract of employment, in which two parties namely the employer and the individual employee are looked at by the law as equals to a legally enforceable agreement. The laws which govern employment occupy a Position of considerable importance in any modern society. This is so because of the tremendous contribution which workers can make to a national growth and development as well as the general well-being of the nation’s citizenry. In this paper we shall examine the various aspects of the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee, particularly the formation of contract of employment, rights and obligations of parties to the contract and the impact of the related legislations on the subject of discourse.
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    Press freedom and corruption in third world countries
    (2009) Onakoya, O.
    The age-long endemic issue of corruption has been a global menace. However, its multifarious consequences have greater negative impact on the third-world/developing countries in contradistinction to the developed world. This study focuses on press freedom as a panacea to the endemic Problem of corruption among other preventive measures particularly as it affects the developing economies using cross country data. For this, more than 15 developing countries are analyzed. Emphasis is placed on both the private and public sectors of the understudied nations. The empirical findings of the study reveal that there is high incidence of corruption in developing economies with less or no tolerance for press freedom. The upshot of the study is that the governments of the developing countries should focus more on press freedom as a catalyst for curtailing the high level of corruption.
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    Nigerian stock exchange: an overview
    (Department of Private and Business Law Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan, 2006-07) Onakoya, S.
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    Who is the victim? The effect of medical errors on physicians and patients
    (The Development Universal Consortia, Ikot Ekpene, 2009) Lokulo-Sodipe, J. O.
    Medical error is an adverse event that could be prevented, given the current state of medical knowledge. It has been defined as the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim. Medical errors can occur in any health care setting in the form of an ‘adverse drug event, improper transfusion, surgical injuries and wrong site injuries, suicide, restraint-related injury or death, falls, burn, pressure ulcers and mistaken patient identity, When errors occur, ethics, professional policy and the law suggest that timely and candid disclosure be the standard practice. Disclosure however raises a number of ethical, legal, and psychological issues which will be discussed in this study. The study further examines the philosophical basis for disclosure and non-disclosure; the duty owed by the physician to the patient; the effect of disclosure on patients and physicians. In discussing the effect of medical error on patients and physicians, the benefit and harm of disclosure and its effect on patient/physician relationship will be examined