Nigeria Freedom Of Information Act

Author : Temitope Olodo
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781447802150

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Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide For Nigerians by Temitope Olodo Pdf

On the 27th of May 2011, Nigeria Freedom of Information Bill was sent to Nigeria President, His Excellency Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, who subsequently assented to it in 24 hours; thereby ending a long, tortuous journey that started on December 9, 1999 when it was first gazetted. It was the oldest legislation in the works in Nigeria's legislative history. Today, the Freedom of Information Act 2011 gives every Nigerian the right to request for information from a public institution. You don't have to explain why you need the information and you can even go to court to compel the institutions to comply. Can Nigeria public institution deliver this immense task? Will the Act help to reduce corruption? Can pressure groups use this new law to ensure transparency and dividends of democracy? This book provides the necessary guide on how to apply the new FOI Act...

Author : Temitope Olodo Esq.,
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781326407131

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Nigeria Freedom of Information Act by Temitope Olodo Esq., Pdf

Nigeria Former President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan GCFR, gave his assent to Nigeria Freedom of Information Bill ending a long tortuous journey that started on 9th of December 1999 when it was first gazetted. President Muhammad Buhari GCFR promised to confront the FOI challenges and said: ""I pledge to... Encourage proactive disclosure of information by government institutions in the spirit of the Freedom of Information Act..."" The author in this book shed more light on the challenges associated with the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act and how to overcome the hurdles...

Author : Margaret B. Kwoka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108482745

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Saving the Freedom of Information Act by Margaret B. Kwoka Pdf

The Freedom of Information Act is vital for democratic accountability. Understanding who uses it is key to re-centering its oversight purposes.

Author : Ngozi Emmanuela Maduka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3962030581

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The Freedom of Information Act by Ngozi Emmanuela Maduka Pdf

Author : Marion Tuttle Marzolf
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015020774942

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Civilizing Voices by Marion Tuttle Marzolf Pdf

Author : David E. Pozen,Michael Schudson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780231545808

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Troubling Transparency by David E. Pozen,Michael Schudson Pdf

Today, transparency is a widely heralded value, and the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is often held up as one of the transparency movement’s canonical achievements. Yet while many view the law as a powerful tool for journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens to pursue the public good, FOIA is beset by massive backlogs, and corporations and the powerful have become adept at using it for their own interests. Close observers of laws like FOIA have begun to question whether these laws interfere with good governance, display a deleterious anti-public-sector bias, or are otherwise inadequate for the twenty-first century’s challenges. Troubling Transparency brings together leading scholars from different disciplines to analyze freedom of information policies in the United States and abroad—how they are working, how they are failing, and how they might be improved. Contributors investigate the creation of FOIA; its day-to-day uses and limitations for the news media and for corporate and citizen requesters; its impact on government agencies; its global influence; recent alternatives to the FOIA model raised by the emergence of “open data” and other approaches to transparency; and the theoretical underpinnings of FOIA and the right to know. In addition to examining the mixed legacy and effectiveness of FOIA, contributors debate how best to move forward to improve access to information and government functioning. Neither romanticizing FOIA nor downplaying its real and symbolic achievements, Troubling Transparency is a timely and comprehensive consideration of laws such as FOIA and the larger project of open government, with wide-ranging lessons for journalism, law, government, and civil society.

Author : Ngozi Emmanuela Maduka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3962030573

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The Freedom of Information Act by Ngozi Emmanuela Maduka Pdf

In Nigeria, poor public governance is one of the major reasons for the mismatch between public service needs and investments of the government in the public service sector. Evolving from this are challenges which inhibit optimal administration, accountability, and productivity in public service institutions. Various public service reforms initiated by the Nigerian government to address these challenges are yet to optimally address the paradox between public service needs and government investments in public service institutions. In view of this, this paper explores a sustainable approach by advocating for a citizens' centered reform through public governance, a deviation from the traditional approach to public service reforms. Since public governance thrives on access to information, this paper examines the FOI Act a viable tool for public service stakeholders to legitimately and sustainably advance public governance in public service institutions. It further explores the role of private sector organisations in public service delivery and how public service stakeholders can ensure their compliance to public governance principles through the FOI Act and other applicable legal framework.

Author : Epiphany Azinge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Freedom of information
ISBN : 9788407625

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Freedom of information law in Nigeria by Epiphany Azinge Pdf

Author : President Aigbokhan Esq,A D Badaiki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798598008393

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Freedom of Information Law, Practice and Procedure by President Aigbokhan Esq,A D Badaiki Pdf

Freedom of Information is an indispensible area of human life and the book emanates from a desire to help raise the level of awareness of all those connected with the right. A book that tries to x-ray issues touching on FOI in Nigeria must be regarded as a sacred document to be read and consulted when there is a doubt about a fundamental conception relating to FOI, accountability, open government and transparency. There is a dearth of materials on the subject matter of this book both globally and in Nigeria. The work is unique because it seeks to satisfy the procedural and substantive thirst of the researchers and practitioners. It has not been easy deciding which sub-topics to treat in this book, bearing in mind that many of those whom this book are directed will not be lawyers. In compiling a book of this specialty, the principal preliminary tasks lie in defining the scope of materials to be included and the approach to be adopted in relation to those materials. We have addressed the subject in a manner that provides a rounded, contextual explanation of Freedom of Information Act which goes beyond pure law and also adequately covers the field. There are thirteen chapters beginning with the history of Freedom of Information Act and sources of right to information. Chapter three seeks to answer the question whether right to information is a fundamental right. In chapter four, discussion focuses on enforcement procedure of right to information with particular reference to judicial review where request for information is denied. Defences to such an action occupy a central place in chapter five, while impact of right to privacy on access to information in Nigeria is examined in chapter six. Chapter seven gives an interpretative analysis of the Freedom of Information Act, 2011. The extent to which the Freedom of Information Act is germane in governance, ensuring open government and serving as anti-corruption tools is the subject matter of chapter eight with nexus to chapter nine where Freedom of Information under open government partnership is examined. The scope of chapter twelve is comparative analysis of the Freedom of Information laws in the United States, United Kingdom, South Africa, Bangladesh, Canada and Australia, with particular emphasis on transplantation of relevant principles and institutions in those countries into Nigeria. Salient concluding remarks bring the book to a close in chapter thirteen.

Author : Colin Darch,Peter G Underwood
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781780630205

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Freedom of Information and the Developing World by Colin Darch,Peter G Underwood Pdf

Rather than simply summarising the state of play in African countries and elsewhere, Freedom of Information and the Developing World identifies and makes explicit the assumptions about the citizen’s relationship to the state that lie beneath Freedom of Information (FoI) discourse. The book goes on to test them against the reality of the pervasive politics of patronage that characterise much of African practice. Develops a discourse about the concept of FoI Discussion of the human rights claim appropriates the concepts of Hohfeldian analysis for more radical purposes in support of the idea that the state has a duty to implement FoI practices

Author : Uchenna Jerome Orji
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781527523838

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Telecommunications Law and Regulation in Nigeria by Uchenna Jerome Orji Pdf

The Nigerian telecommunications industry has continued to grow in a phenomenal manner following market liberalization reforms that commenced in the 1990s. As of 2017, the telecommunications industry was one of the fastest-growing economic sectors in Nigeria and the fourth largest contributor to the country’s Gross Domestic Product. The telecommunications industry, however, remains a highly technical and naturally dynamic industry that has not been a usual area for legal research in developing countries such as Nigeria. This book bridges that gap in knowledge by providing an analysis of the legal and policy instruments that regulate the industry. It comprises eleven chapters that discuss the historical evolution of telecommunications and its regulation; the development of the Nigerian telecommunications industry from 1886 to 2017; the legal basis for the regulation of the industry; the licensing and duties of service providers; the regulation of network infrastructure; the protection of consumers; the regulation of competition, interconnection, universal access, and environmental protection; and the resolution of industry disputes. This book will be useful to policy makers, legislators, regulators, lawyers, law students, investors, operators, and consumers, as well as any person interested in the Nigerian telecommunications industry.

Author : Fatima Diallo,Richard Calland
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004251892

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Access to Information in Africa by Fatima Diallo,Richard Calland Pdf

For a long time, Africa has 'lagged' behind global advances in transparency, but there are now significant developments on the continent. In a ground-breaking book, Access to Information in Africa brings together for the first time a collection of African academics and practitioners to contribute to the fast-growing body of scholarship that is now accumulating internationally. This is therefore an African account of progress made and setbacks suffered, but also an account of challenges and obstacles that confront both policy-makers and practitioners. These challenges must be overcome if greater public access to information is to make a distinctive, positive contribution to the continent’s democratic and socio-economic future. This book offers a necessarily multi-dimensional perspective on the state of ATI in African jurisdictions and the emerging, new praxis - a praxis that will entail a genuine domestication of the right of access to information on the continent.

Author : Mendel, Toby
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231042041

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Public service broadcasting by Mendel, Toby Pdf

Author : Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030836580

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Freedom of Information Law and Good Governance by Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai Pdf

This book argues that Sierra Leone’s ten-year civil conflict demonstrates the criticality of freedom of information (FOI) as a facet of good governance where corruption thrives, spanning both public and private sectors, if Sierra Leone’s continued security and stability are to be ensured. It argues that it was the absence of an anti-corruption tool like FOI and its attendants, transparency, and accountability, in governance generally, and in the area of the extractive industry in particular, that lead to other social phenomena which directly sparked the war. It proffers that for the continued consolidation of peace, security, stability and development in Sierra Leone, transparency and accountability must be ensured by protecting and implementing the demand driven anti-graft FOI. Straddling the disciplines of law, political science, public policy, and history, the book’s major premise is that it was the absence of FOI in the area of governance and the extractive industry, which enabled politicians, civil servants and the politically connected to ransom and exploit Sierra Leone’s mineral resources for their own profit with impunity, a state of affairs which led to underdevelopment, state collapse and an embittered civil populace especially the youth. The book postulates that as such any attempt to ensure long-term peace in Sierra Leone, should seek to avoid replicating the conditions that gave rise to that gruesome conflict- elites expropriation of national resources through endemic graft. The book proposes the comprehensive and effective implementation of the Right to Information Act 2013.

Author : Denis McQuail
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1412903718

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McQuail's Mass Communication Theory by Denis McQuail Pdf

This fully revised and updated edition provides a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to the range of approaches to understanding mass communication.