The 1999 Constitution Section 233 (1) The Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction, to the exclusion of any other court of law in Nigeria, to hearand determine appeals from the Court of Appeal. (The Supreme Court is the only Court in Nigeria that has the power to hear and judge appeals that come from the Court…
The 1999 Constitution Section 204 (1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, any of the bodies may, with the approval of the Governor, byrules or otherwise regulate its own procedure or confer powers or impose duties on any officer or authority for the purpose of discharging its functions. (State Executive bodies have the power…
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…
The 1999 Constitution Section 156 (1) No person shall be qualified for appointment as a member of any of the bodies aforesaid if – (This section means that a person is disqualified for appointment and should not be appointed as a member of the federal councils and commissions listed in Section 153 of the Constitution…
The 1999 Constitution Section 45 (1) Nothing in sections 37, 38, 39, 40 and 41 of this Constitution shall invalidate any law that is reasonably justifiable in a democratic society; (This means that the Rights guaranteed in sections 37 (Right to private and family life), 38 (freedom of thought, conscience and religion), 39 (freedom of…
The 1999 Constitution Section 27 (1) Subject to the provisions of section 28 of this Constitution, any person who is qualified inaccordance with the provisions of this section may apply to the President for the same of a certificateof naturalization. (Based on the contents of section 28 of the 1999 Constitution, whomever wants to be…
The 1999 Constitution Section 25 (1) The following persons are citizens of Nigeria by birth-namely- (The people mentioned below are citizens of Nigeria by their birth) Section 25 (1) (a) every person born in Nigeria before the date of independence, either of whose parents or any of whose grandparents belongs or belonged to a community…
Introduction The emergence and proliferation of social media has given a lot of persons from different demographic a platform to express an unfettered right to expression which may or may not lead to defamation. People are able to share their opinions which may be based on unconfirmed information and by doing so, spread possibly untrue…
Due to the current rise in foreign exchange and the devaluation of Naira, fuel supplying companies are finding it difficult to import fuel and are currently relying on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPC Ltd) to supply fuel before distribution to their various stations. This has inevitably led to the disruption in the steady…
On the 11th of July, 2024, the Supreme court in a landmark judgment in suit number: SC/CV/343/2024 gave an order that Local Government allocations be paid directly to them from the Federation Account. Governors of the states of the Federation were used to dissolving democratically elected Local Government Councils and reinstating caretaker committees in…
