The 1999 Constitution Section 182 (1) No person shall be qualified for election to the office of Governor of a State if – (The following can disqualify a person from being elected as Governor of a State in Nigeria – ) Section 182 (1)(a) subject to the provisions of section 28 of this Constitution, he…
The 1999 Constitution Section 180 (1) subject to the provisions of this Constitution, a person shall hold the office of Governor of a State until – (Basically, a person who was duly elected as a Governor of a State in Nigeria, will hold such an office till ) Section 180 (1)(a) When his successor in…
The 1999 Constitution Section 179 (1) A candidate for an election to the office of Governor of a State shall be deemed to have been dulyelected to such office where, being the only candidate nominated for the election- (The following are situations where a person who is a candidate for the office of the Governor…
The 1999 Constitution Section 176 (1) There shall be for each State of the Federation a Governor. (Every State in Nigeria shall have a Governor.) Section 176 (2) The governor of a State shall be the Chief Executive of that state. (Whoever is the Governor of a State shall be the Chief Executive of that…
The 1999 Constitution Section 172 A person in the public service of the Federation shall observe and conform to the Code of Conduct. (Any person who is working in the public service of the Federation is supposed to or must follow the rules contained in the Code of Conduct.) Section 173 (1) Subject to the…
The 1999 Constitution Section 169 There shall be a civil service of the Federation. (This section establishes the Civil Service.) Section 170 Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the Federal Civil Service Commission may, with the approvalof the President and subject to such conditions as it may deem fit, delegate any of the powers…
The 1999 Constitution Section 167 Any payment that is required by this Part of this Chapter to be made by the Federation to a State shall be a charge upon the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation and any payment that is so required to be made by a State to the Federation shall be…
The 1999 Constitution Section 165 Each State shall, in respect of each financial year, pay to the Federation an amount equal to such part of the expenditure incurred by the Federation during that financial year for the purpose of collection of taxes or duties which are wholly or partly payable to the State pursuant to…
The 1999 Constitution Section 163 Where under an Act of the National Assembly, tax or duty is imposed in respect of any of the mattersspecified in item D of Part II of the Second Schedule to this Constitution, the net proceeds of such tax or duty shall be distributed among the States on the basis…
The 1999 Constitution Section 162 (1) The Federation shall maintain a special account to be called “the Federation Account” into which shallbe paid all revenues collected by the Government of the Federation, except the proceeds from the personal income tax of the personnel of the armed forces of the Federation, the Nigeria Police Force, the…
