Abstract
Globally, the hitherto recognition of socio-economic rights as aspirational rights is rapidly experiencing a dramatic reversal in status to a constitutional subject matter deserving enforcement. Various international conventions have been made with the sole aim of pushing it beyond mere aspirations to imperative concerns by political leaders in their policy formulation. Despite this awareness, many countries including Nigeria still battle with the question of justiceability of socio-economic rights. There is therefore, no justification in the deliberate policy by political leaders who continue in decorating socio-economic rights with the status of non-justiciable set of rights notwithstanding the trite position that the enjoyment of civil and political rights is anchored on the realisation of socio-economic rights. Consequently, this paper argues that socio-economic rights form an integral part of the vocabulary of rights despite a conceptual divide between it and the first generation of rights or civil and political rights. The paper recommends the need for socio-economic rights to be prioritized and constitutionalised as a way of extinguishing social disequilibrium in the society.