Akintayo, Akinola Ebunolu2014-08-132014-08-132014Akintayo, AE 2014, 'A good thing from Nazareth? Stemming the tide of neo-liberalism against socio-economic rights : lessons from the Nigerian case of Bamidele Aturu v Minister of Petroleum Resources and Others', ESR Review : Economic and Social Rights in South Africa, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 5-9.1684-160Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/41238During the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1998, Baxi warned that contemporary human rights is being supplanted by ‘…a trade-related, market-friendly, human rights paradigm’ (Baxi 1998: 125 at 163). According to him, the new paradigm requires states to pursue the ‘three Ds’ of globalisation (deregulation, de-nationalisation and disinvestment), in order to free as much space as possible for global capital (Baxi 1998: 125 at 164).enCommunity Law Centre, University of the Western CapeHuman rightsNeo-liberalismSocio-economic rightsDeregulationNigeriaArticle