Human Rights And National Security: A Critical Appraisal Of The Nigerian Perspective

HUMAN RIGHTS AND NATIONAL SECURITY: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF THE NIGERIAN PERSPECTIVE.CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTION In almost every corner of the world, no issue can be as mind boggling as a discussion on human rights. While the exact scope of human rights may be in dispute, the researcher has no doubt that any discussion which has the possibility of enhancing the quality of man’s existence on earth must be related to the rights of man.It could be correctly asserted that there has been concern for human rights since antiquity through the various stages of socio-economic formations upto the moder…