Socio Economic Rights Under The Nigeria Legal System: Issues And Challeges

Good governance can better be achieved where socio economic rights are provided and made justiciable. Socio economic rights give meaning to right to life and dignity of human person. It enables the people to live above poverty level if provided and guaranteed by the government. The study relied on both primary and secondary sources of data such as statutes, textbooks, articles in journal, internet and the likes. The data collected was subjected to content and contextual analysis to arrive at our conclusions. The study examined the legal regime of socio economic rights within the purview of Nigeria legal system as to its justiciability and enforcement. It is our conclusion that socio economic rights should be made justiciable as part of effort of government to reduce poverty and that judicial interpretation of these rights as encapsulated in Chapter II of the Constitution should be in consonance with right to life and dignity of human person as enshrined in section 33 and 34 of the Constitution.