Lukman Adebisi Abdulrauf
@unilorin.edu.ng
Senior Lecturer/Department of Public Law
University of Ilorin
Dr Lukman Adebisi Abdulrauf is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin. He is the Sub-Dean (Academic) of the Postgraduate School and formerly the Faculty of Law Representative on the Postgraduate School Board. His research interest is comparative constitutional law with respect to the digital eco-system, data protection law and regulation of emerging technologies. Dr. Abdulrauf has published several articles and chapters in international and national journals and books. He has also presented his research in various international conferences.
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Kayode David Kolawole, Biliqees Ayoola Abdulmumin, Gizem Uzuner, Oluwagbenga Abayomi Seyingbo, and Lukman Adebayo-Oke Abdulrauf
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
AbstractThe present study examined the relationship between finance, government revenue, institutional quality and sustainable energy supply in West Africa countries over annual frequency period from 2012 to 2020. To achieve the outlined nexus between study variables, the present study leverages on a battery of panel analysis for robust inferences. The econometric estimators employed are panel random effect regression, generalized method of moment technique. Furthermore, panel Granger causality test is utilized to analyze the direction of flow among the variables for the study. Empirical results revealed that financial development is a significant determinant of energy supply in West Africa countries while a negligible effect was reported for institutional quality and sustainable energy supply. Thus, the present study concludes that finance from financial sector is important in ensuring sufficient energy supply. To this end, this study therefore, recommends that incentives should be given to financial institutions that fund energy generation and transmission as financial development is seen to be significant on energy supply.
L Abdulrauf, A Adaji, and H Ojibara
South African Medical Association NPC
The draft Code of Conduct for Research is an important initiative towards assisting the scientific community in complying with the provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA). However, its approach towards cross-border data sharing should be reconsidered to clarify the ambiguities inherent in the legal requirements for the cross-border sharing of health data in the POPIA. These ambiguities include the concept of ‘transfer of information’, the application of adequacy as a legal mechanism for transfer, the nature of consent for cross-border sharing and the scope of the recipient third party. We suggest that the draft Code of Conduct for Research can be improved by: Explaining or defining the concept of ‘transfer of information’ and when it applies to cross-border sharing in research Clarifying the application of adequacy as a legal mechanism for transfer vis-à-vis the other alternatives Expanding on the interpretation and application of consent as a legal mechanism for cross-border transfers Expanding the category of persons who may be recipients of personal information in a third country
Donrich Thaldar, Lukman Abdulrauf, Paul Ogendi, Amy Gooden, Dusty-Lee Donnelly, and Beverley Townsend
Academy of Science of South Africa
Lukman Abdulrauf
Routledge
Managing Covid-19 has been a challenge for countries, such as Nigeria, with poor infrastructure and a weak health-care system. Nigeria was not prepared for a pandemic of this magnitude when Covid-19 struck. Deploying the necessary resources in controlling the spread of the pandemic therefore meant the federal arrangement would be put to test. Thus, the pandemic presented an opportunity to re-assess Nigeria’s federal governance system given the recent resurgence of the clamour for restructuring. While federalism was originally put in place in the country to bring together diverse ethno-religious interests, recent events now reveal that there are deeper issues which federalism ought to address and which are left unattended. This chapter aims at examining Nigeria’s multi-government level response to Covid-19. It finds that the practice of federalism in the country is dysfunctional and this is made more apparent by the handling of the pandemic which revealed more centralisation of powers and the diminishing role of federating units. © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Nico Steytler.
Lukman Adebisi Abdulrauf
Informa UK Limited
ABSTRACT That international organizations have always played a pivotal role in the development and advancement of data privacy norms is now beyond doubt. With regard to advancing compliance specifically, the role of international organizations cannot be overemphasized. Although data privacy is no longer new to Africa, compliance with data privacy norms has been significantly lower compared to other jurisdictions. A (possible) explanation for this is that the primary regional organization on the continent – the African (AU) – has played an insignificant role in this regard. Related to this explanation is the usual contention that the absence of a settled normative standard is a reason for the low level of compliance. Since there is now a continental data privacy standard in Africa - the AU Data Protection Convention - the question remains why is compliance still low. Therefore, using insights from the normative and institutional theories of state compliance with international norms, the article examines why there is still a low compliance rate. The article then suggests how to strengthen the AU towards advancing compliance with data privacy norms on the continent.
Charles Manga Fombad and Lukman Adebisi Abdulrauf
Academy of Science of South Africa
The need to act swiftly in times ofemergency gives governments a reason to exercise emergency powers. This is a legally valid and accepted practice in modern democracies. Post-independence African constitutions contained provisions that sought to regulate states of emergency, placing the emphasis on who could make such declarations and what measures could be taken, but paid scant attention to the safeguards that were needed to ensure that the enormous powers that governments were allowed to accrue and exercise in dealing with emergencies were not abused. As a result, these broad powers were regularly used to abuse fundamental human rights and suppress opponents of the government. In the post-1990 wave of constitutional reforms in Africa, some attempts were made to introduce safeguards against the misuse of emergency powers. This article undertakes a comparative assessment of the extent to which these reforms have reduced the risk that the exercise of emergency powers poses to human rights and progress towards constitutionalism and respect for the rule of law, especially in times of global pandemics such as COVID-19. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the weaknesses of the constitutional reforms designed to check against the abuse of emergency powers. In most African countries, governments in dealing with the virus decided to act within the legislative framework, which subjects them to few checks rather than rely on the constitutional frameworks which in most cases provide for more elaborate checks. It is clear from the experiences of the past few months that most African constitutions never anticipated an emergency of such magnitude. The article concludes by arguing that one of the major lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic is that there is a need to review the constitutional and regulatory framework for the exercise of emergency powers to better prepare for future pandemics.
Lukman Adebisi Abdulrauf
Brill
Abstract The use of specialised anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) to combat corruption is increasingly popular among African countries. This is no surprise considering the successes these agencies have recorded elsewhere in the world, on the strength of which they have been described as ‘the most innovative feature of the anti-corruption movement of the last two decades’. Yet while ACAs have been successful in other parts of the world, the same cannot be said of those in Africa generally and Nigeria in particular. Even with two ACAs – the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) – corruption continues to soar in the country, making it necessary to examine the flaws of Nigeria’s ACAs. Focusing on a number of key characteristics of ACAs, this article analyses the role of the ICPC and EFCC in combating corruption in Nigeria. The main question the article seeks to answer is why corruption should be on the increase despite the fact that two specialised ACAs have been in existence for close to two decades.
Lukman Adebisi Abdulrauf and Charles Manga Fombad
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Lukman Adebisi Abdulrauf and Charles Manga Fombad
Informa UK Limited
ABSTRACT It is now widely recognised that the unregulated processing of personal information has had a significant impact on key human rights like privacy, dignity, integrity, personality and autonomy. However, while other regions of the world have taken concerted action to protect the personal rights of individuals by adopting data protection instruments, Africa has generally lagged behind. This is so in spite of the steady growth in access to and usage of ICT and the internet which has facilitated the exploitation of individuals’ personal information with the attendant risk of infringement of their rights. An important step to change this situation was taken when African leaders in June 2014, agreed to a landmark Convention on data protection. This Convention has provoked mixed reactions from stakeholders and privacy advocates. While some are sceptical as to the effectiveness of this Convention, others have welcomed it as a cause for celebration of human rights on the continent. This paper assesses the potential impact this Convention will have on the protection of individual's personal data.