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The Law of Nigeria consists of courts, offences, and various types of laws. Nigeria has its own constitution which was established on 29 May 1999. The Constitution of Nigeria is the supreme law of the country. There are four distinct legal systems in Nigeria, which include English law, Common law, Customary law, and Sharia Law.
The ethnic customary law in Nigeria is Indigenous, and this system of customary law applies and is valid to members of a specific ethnic group. [16] Muslim law is a religious law that is solely based on the Muslim faith and applies to the members of such faith. In the nation of Nigeria, it is not an indigenous law; it is a received customary ...
Customary law is a recognized source of law within jurisdictions of the civil law tradition, where it may be subordinate to both statutes and regulations. In addressing custom as a source of law within the civil law tradition, John Henry Merryman notes that, though the attention it is given in scholarly works is great, its importance is "slight ...
However, the employment of customary law differs greatly between nations and this is based on conditions for human rights and conflicts with the western laws employed. For example, Kenya has abolished its customary criminal laws, retaining only offenses surrounding marriage relations, [28] due to inconsistencies with the British common law ...
The rule of African customary law which generally excludes African women from intestate succession was recognised by section 23 of the Black Administration Act [2] and the regulations framed thereunder, especially regulation 2, promulgated on 6 February 1987, in Government Gazette 10601, as Government Notice R200, making black law and custom ...
The Privy Council, reversing the judgments below, [5] held that although the territory of the Lagos Colony had been ceded to the imperial Crown in 1861 under the Lagos Treaty of Cession [5] and the Crown thereby acquired allodial title to the land, the Crown held only a "limited right of administrative interference" with the land and was required to pay compensation for using it.
Nigerian Books of Record (NBR) is a reference / Official Book of Record of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for documenting good records held by Nigerians. It is a collection of human achievements categorized into education, literature, agriculture, medical science, business, sports, nature, adventure, radio and cinema etc. [1] [2]
The Sharia Court of Appeals reviews cases involving Sharia law, particularly in the North and Northeast regions of the country. This has caused controversy because while the Sharia Court of Appeals interprets and reviews cases relating to Islamic law, they must also interpret the common and customary laws of the other regions of Nigeria. [20]