Editorial

Abstract

This issue of NIU Journal of Legal Studies touches on the Issues and Challenges Nigerian Hire Purchase Act, Social Justice in Contemporary Socieities, as well as Customary Land Tenure.

One of the papers, in this edition, critically examines of the Nigerian Hire Purchase Act and the limitations and imbalances therein and suggests legislative amendment to address these limitations and imbalances.

Another paper reveals that in most parts of Nigeria, rural lands are under the customary land tenure, regulated by customs and culture of the communities. It is therefore, recommended that the Land Tenure Law should adopt the operation of the customary land tenure with modifications and that the intervention on the system dislocated rural peace.

In sum, this issue of NIU Journal of Legal Studies features many empirical and theoretical based articles which can be of great benefit to every reader.