Constitutional Responsibility

This paper reviews roles newspapers can play in curbing corruption and what seemingly unassailable challenges they faced in facilitating the anti-corruption crusade by Olusegun Obasanjo administration between 1999 and 2007 in Nigeria. The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (amended) says the mass media shall at all times be free to uphold the fundamental objectives and directive principles of state policy and uphold the responsibility and accountability of the government to the people of Nigeria The paper observes that while newspapers can fulfill these social and constitutional responsibilities in both tangible and intangible ways, the effectiveness of newspapers in acting as forces against corruption in Nigeria is, however, threatened by factors both intrinsic and extrinsic to the media such as official immunity and secrecy, lack of access to official information, moral obligations to the ethnic community, professional integrity and responsibility, editorial inde...

The present article is dedicated to defective acts of public authorities. The concept "defective acts" - the most general and complex concept including both the acts adopted with violation of the requirement of laws (illegal acts), and acts adopted with the violation of organizational and technical requirements. A possibility of division of illegal acts  on insignificant and voidable acts is discussed In the article.

The article is devoted to the study of the constitutional responsibility of the ex-head of the state. The form and composition of the constitutional responsibility of the former president are revealed. The procedure of the impeachment of the president in Ukraine is considered and foreign experience is researched. The mechanism of bringing the former president to constitutional responsibility is proposed.