Dedication -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- Table of Statutes -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter I -- Currently Applicable Laws -- Groundnorm -- Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy -- Economic Objectives -- Social Objectives -- Educational Objectives -- Foreign Policy Objectives -- Environmental Objectives -- Directives on Nigerian Culture -- Media Objectives and Obligations -- Nexus of Fundamental Objectives to Fundamental Human Rights -- Article 4 and the Second Schedule to the Constitution -- The Exclusive Legislative List -- The Concurrent Legislative List -- Enforcement Mechanisms -- Jurisdiction and Powers of the Federal High Court -- Powers of the Federal High Court -- Chapter II -- Introduction -- Overview Nigeria's Environmental Problems -- International Aspects of Nigerian Environment -- Subject Classification -- Air/Atmosphere -- Air Pollution -- Land and Land Management -- Forests -- Agriculture -- Nature and Biodiversity -- Desertification and Drought -- Energy, Natural Resources and Mining -- Environmental Impact: Toxic Chemicals -- Chapter III -- Economic Aspects of Sustainable Development in Nigeria -- International Cooperation -- Financing -- Alterations in Patterns of Consumption -- Nigerian Environmental Statistics -- Water, Oceans and Coastlines -- Environmental Monitoring Programs -- Management of Water Resources -- Strategic Policies and Plans -- Industrial Water Pollution Control Program -- Standards of Industrial Effluents -- Water and Seas Pollution -- Oceans and Coastal Areas -- General Regimes and Status -- The Nigerian Marine Environment -- Oil Spills and Impact of Oil on the Environment -- Solid Wastes and Sewage -- Depletion of Fishery Resources and Modification of Ecosystem -- Flooding and Coast Erosion -- Chapter IV -- Introduction -- Constitutional Provisions.

Environmental Legislation -- Before 1988 -- and Beyond -- Environmental Treaties Nigeria is a Party -- Cultural Resources -- Situation on the Ground -- Litigation -- Chapter V -- Introduction -- Background -- Land Tenure Before 1978 -- Land Tenure from 1978 and Beyond -- Constitutional Provisions -- Legislative Framework: The Land Use Act 1978 -- General Provisions -- Principles of Land Tenure -- Rents -- Revocation of Rights of Occupancy and Compensation thereof [a] -- Revocation of Rights of Occupancy and Compensation thereof [b] -- Transitional and Other Provisions -- Jurisdiction of High Courts and Other Courts -- Supplemental Provisions -- Analysis -- Expropriation and Compensation -- Jurisdiction of Courts in Matters of Land -- Land Use and/or Occupation and not Land Ownership -- Chapter VI -- Administration of Land (Use, Possession/Occupation) -- and Not Ownership -- Continuation of Prior Use, Possession or Occupation of Land -- Under the Land Use Act -- Highlights of Case Law on Administration of Land -- Proof of Declaration of Title -- Highlights of Case Law Directly Under the Land Use Act -- Summation -- Chapter VII -- Supplemental Legislation -- The National Agricultural Land Development Authority Act 1992 -- The Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation Act 1993 -- The National Agricultural Seeds Act 1992 -- The Research Institutes (Establishment, etc) Order of 1975 -- The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Act 1967 -- History and Texts -- Pre-1978 Nigerian Property Law Generally -- The General Law of Administration of Property in Nigeria -- Dual System of Tenure in Nigeria -- Legal and Equitable Interests in Property -- Historical Perspectives -- Pre- 1978 Title to Land & Systems of Tenure under Customary Law -- Family Property and Acquisition of Title to Land -- under Customary Law -- Alienation of Family Property.

Alienation of Community Land, Methods of Conveyancing and -- Priority of Competing Interests -- Registration of Instruments -- Void Documents Due to Non-Registration, Loss of Priority, Non -- Admissibility in Evidence and Doctrine of Notice -- Effect of Registration on Doctrine of Notice & Transactions Covered -- by Customary Law -- Customary Dealings and Statutory Requirements of Writing -- Effect of Writing, Choice of Law and Vendor's Title -- Extinction of Title and Limitation of Actions -- Chapter VIII -- Registration of Titles to Property (Land) -- Registration and the Land Use Act -- Process and Procedure -- History and Texts -- Management of State Land -- Prior Law on Dispositions of Land by Aliens -- Historical Perspectives of Acquisition of Land Rights by Aliens and -- Non-Natives of Nigeria -- A Note on Prior Jurisdiction of Courts -- Evidence and Burden of Proof -- Conveyancing in Nigeria -- Conveyancing under Customary Law -- Conveyancing under General Non Customary Laws -- based on English Law -- Registration Laws in Historical Perspectives -- Mortgages Generally or Statutory Law -- Customary Law of Mortgages -- Leases -- Chapter IX -- The Law of Landlord and Tenant -- Customary Tenancies Generally -- Tenancies of Duration -- Land Tenure under Islamic Law in Nigeria -- Occupied Land -- Unoccupied Land -- Common Land -- Tenancies under General Statutory Laws -- The Landlord and Tenant Law 1958 -- Recovery of Premises Legislation -- The Lagos Rent Control and Recovery of Residential -- Premises Law 1976 -- General Provisions on Eminent Domain and Expropriation: -- Compulsory Acquisition of Land and Compensation -- Constitutional Provisions -- Prior Highlight of Compulsory Acquisition of Land and Compensation -- The Lagos Public Lands Acquisition Law 1973 as amended -- Other Relevant Compulsory Acquisition Legislation -- Case Law.

Zoning, Town and Country Planning Laws -- Zoning or Country and Town Planning in the States -- The Town and Country Planning Ordinance (Lagos, -- Eastern and Northern States) -- Planning Authorities -- Lagos State -- Eastern States -- Western and Mid-Western States -- Northern States -- Interaction and Integration of Customary Law with the -- General Law of Property -- Other Legislation Relevant to Land Laws and Property Administration -- The Survey Act -- The Land (Perpetual Succession) Act 1924 as amended -- The Abandoned Properties Act 1979 and the Federal Housing -- Authority Act 1973 -- State Legislation related to Land -- Chapter X -- Introduction -- Constitutional Provisions -- National Integration and Economic Objectives -- National Integration and Social, Educational and -- Foreign Policy Objectives -- Jurisdiction of the Federal High Court -- History and Texts -- Sources of Nigerian Commercial, Business and Trade Laws -- Nigerian Contract Laws -- Sources of Nigerian Contract Laws -- Applicable Enactments -- Historical Perspectives -- Highlights of Contractual Capacity -- Limitation of Contractual Actions -- Sale of Goods, Sales and Other Obligations, Bills of Sale -- Agency -- Money Lending -- Bailment -- Pawnbroker Laws -- Innkeepers Laws -- Corporate Laws -- The Companies Act 1912 -- The Companies Act 1968 -- The Companies and Allied Matters 1990 -- Literature Review -- Summary Guide to Incorporation -- Conclusion -- Other Corporate Related Organizations and Institutions -- Cooperative Societies -- Partnerships -- Registration of Business Names -- Chapter XI -- Stock Exchange and Capital Issue or Capital Markets -- Investment and Securities -- Foreign Exchange -- Public Enterprises Privatization and Commercialization -- Small and Medium Scale Industries -- Niger Delta Development -- Consumer Protection -- Chapter XII.

National Health Safeguards -- The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration -- and Control (NAFDAC) -- Hire Purchase (Leasing) Laws -- Cultural Property -- Regulation of Traffic in Cultural Property -- Other Laws Establishing and/or Protecting Cultural Heritage -- International and Regional Laws of Cultural Property -- Africa -- Intellectual Property -- Nigerian Law -- The Register and Registrar -- Effect of Registration -- Registrability and Validity of Registration -- Procedure and Duration of Registration -- Assignment and Transmission -- Use and Non Use -- Chapter XIII -- Correction and Rectification of the Register -- International Arrangements -- Patents and Designs -- Patents -- Compulsory Licenses -- Use of Patents of Government Agencies -- Designs -- Copyrights -- Standards -- The National Office for Technology Acquisition and -- Promotion (NOTAP) -- International Treaties and Agreements Nigeria is a Party -- Chapter XIV -- Commodity Boards -- Productivity Prices and Incomes Board -- Introduction to Taxation, Customs and Excise, Tariffs -- and Trade Practices -- Introducing History and Development of Regional Tax Laws -- Summary of Current Taxation Legislation -- Corporate Tax -- Individual Taxes -- Tariffs, Customs and Excise, Import and Export -- Chapter XV -- Finance Laws, Banks and Banking and Insurance -- Finance Laws -- Banks and Banking -- Highlights of Banking -- The Central Bank of Nigeria -- Dishonored Checks Offenses -- Corrupt Practices, Economic and Financial Crimes -- Advance Fee Fraud and Other Connected Offenses -- Bills of Exchange and Other Promissory Notes -- Insurance -- Marine Insurance -- Deposit Insurance -- Reinsurance -- Chartered Insurance -- Agricultural Insurance -- National Health Insurance -- National Insurance Commission -- Insurance Business -- Commercial Arbitration -- Bankruptcy and/or Insolvency.

Chapter XVI.