A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN NIGERIA'S ISLAMIC SHARIA PRAXIS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE NATION'S CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY (1999 - 2011)

📄 Project Abstract

Democracy and development are both highly contested concepts. Similarly, the interface between both concepts is also a subject of contestation. On the one hand are neoliberal theorists who believe that liberal democracy is essential, in fact a desideratum for economic development and human security and therefore an ideal form to which all nations of the earth must aspire. On the other are what may be termed neo-Marxist theorists who interpret liberal democracy as an ideological fig wig for masking the mindless exploitation and atrocious inequality that characterizes the global capitalist system, particularly the peripheral states. In line with the former position which has been on the ascendancy since the end of the cold war, the restoration of democratic rule in Nigeria in 1999 elicited high expectations among the citizenry that it would usher in an era of economic prosperity and security of lives and property both of which had been eroded under prolonged military rule. This study emp...