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ILO's Social Protection Floor (SPF), the Employee’s Compensation Act (ECA) and the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Act : A Comparative Analysis

By Femi Aborisade aborisadefemi@gmail.com   Introduction This paper is a doctrinal and comparative paper in the sense that it sets out the basic provisions of the ILO Social Protection Floor and attempts a comparison with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Act and the Employee’s Compensation Act (ECA). The paper is thus structured as follows:

THE IMPERATIVES OF JUSTICIABILITY OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS IN NIGERIA: AN ANALYSIS OF CHAPTER II OF THE 1999 CONSTITUTION AND JUDICIAL ATTITUDES

  Outline The following outline has been adopted in discussing this topic: ·          Introduction ·          What are the provisions of Chapter II of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (CFRN ) 1999? ·          The essence of the Chapter II provisions ·          Two Schools of Thought on Chapter II ·          The non-justiciability constitutional provision ·          The pro-justiciability provisions o    The constitutional pro-justiciability provisions o    Statutory pro-justiciability provisions: The African Charter on