Nigeria: Cybercrime Bill Proposed
(Feb. 5, 2014) Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan recently introduced the Cybercrime Bill, 2013 in the National Assembly. (Nuruddeen M. Abdallah & Musa Abdullahi Krishi, Cybercrime Bill: FG...
View ArticleEconomic Community of West African States; Nigeria; United Nations:...
(Mar. 31, 2014) Nigeria has partnered with two international organizations, the United Nations and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in developing a weapons collection program for...
View ArticleNigeria: Supreme Court Invalidates Igbo Customary Law Denying Female...
(May 6, 2014) On April 14, 2014, the Nigerian Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, confirmed decisions of two lower courts, which had found unconstitutional an Igbo customary law of succession...
View ArticleNigeria: National Health Bill Enacted
(Dec. 16, 2014) It was reported recently that Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan, signed into law the National Health Bill, 2014. Ten years in the making, the law aims to improve the country’s...
View ArticleNigeria: Bill on Elimination of Violence Against Persons Enacted into Law
(June 4, 2015) On May 25, 2015, as one of his last acts in office, former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed into law the Violence Against Persons Bill. (Mohammed Abubakar & Kanayo Umeh,...
View ArticleNigeria: New Immigration Law Enacted
(June 5, 2015) On May 25, 2015, outgoing Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed into law new immigration legislation that repealed and replaced the 1963 Immigration Act. (Jonathan Signs...
View ArticleNigeria: Gender Equality Bill Fails in the Senate
(Mar. 28, 2016) On March 15, 2015, the Nigerian Senate voted down the Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill, 2016 (S.B 116), which aimed to accord women rights equal to those of men in various spheres of...
View ArticleNigeria: Government Reconstitutes the Investment and Securities Tribunal
(Oct. 12, 2017) On September 19, 2017, the Nigerian Minister of Finance announced the reconstitution of the Investment and Securities Tribunal (IST) in order “to sanitise the capital market, restore...
View ArticleNigeria: President Vetoes Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill
(Apr. 4, 2018) On March 13, 2018, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, citing a number of concerns, vetoed the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, a proposal aimed at making changes to the 2010 Electoral...
View ArticleNigeria: Constitution Amended to Allow Independent Candidacy, Lower Age...
(June 11, 2018) On May 31, 2018, the seventy-five-year-old Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law a bill amending the 1999 Constitution, the implementation of which will lower the minimum...
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