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This paper interrogates administrative law as organized lawlessness by engaging in the necessary theoretical expositions. The central research question of the work borders on the aptness or logic of depicting administrative law as organized lawlessness. Under a qualitative research design, the study relied on internet materials, book sources, journal articles and other secondary sources of non-numeric data to conduct its interrogations. It traced the source of delineating administrative law as organized lawlessness to Ferdinand Lundberg, an influential American social philosopher, journalist and scholar. The study found immense reason in the thesis of Lundberg. The incidence of administrative tribunals and the embedded practice of administrative adjudication (occasioning apparent detractions from the rule of law ideals) are central to the surrounding issues. Even at that, administrative law has remained an integral and critical aspect of law and administration in contemporary times. Hence, the work recommends the consideration of diverse perspectives in the relevant analyses, and continuing discussions to ensure the nonstop improvement and proper functioning of administrative law within broader legal framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examined issues in democratic consolidation in Nigeria by focusing on the nature of the linkages among competitiveness of elections, regularity of elections and democratic consolidation in the country. The haunting experience of a protracted period of military rule in the West African state makes the subject matter of democratic consolidation in the country usually engaging. Even at that, extant literature has not adequately covered issues bordering on the linkages among the competitiveness of elections, regularity of elections and democratic consolidation in Nigeria. What then is the nature of the linkages among these research variables? The methodology of the work is qualitative and relies on secondary sources of non-numerical data for analyses. The paper found a position of disarticulated relationship among the study's variables. In addressing the embedded issues, it is recommended that independent candidature be constitutionally introduced as part of the electoral culture of the local government system in Nigeria. So that under such scenarios, as many citizens as possible at the local government level would usually become candidates during council elections. In so doing, competitiveness would have become totally practicalized and locally epitomized in democratic consolidation in Nigeria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]