Category: Part 2 House of Assembly of a State
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 129. Power as to matters of evidence
(1) For the purposes of any investigation under section 128 of this Constitution, and subject to the provisions thereof, a House of Assembly or a committee appointed in...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 128. Power to conduct investigations
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, a House of Assembly shall have power by resolution published in its journal or in the Office Gazette of the...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 127. Tenure of office of Auditor-General
(1) A person holding the office of Auditor-General under section 126 (1) of this Constitution shall be removed from office by the Governor of the State acting on an...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 126. Appointment of Auditor-General
(1) The Auditor-General for a State shall be appointed by the Governor of the State on the recommendation of the State Civil Service Commission subject to confirmation...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 125. Audit of Public accounts
(1) There shall be an Auditor-General for each State who shall be appointed in accordance with the provisions of section 126 of this Constitution. (2) The public...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 124. Remuneration, etc. of the governor and certain other officers
(1) There shall be paid to the holders of the offices mentioned in this section such remuneration and salaries as may be prescribed by a House of Assembly, but not...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 123. Contingencies Fund
(1) A House of Assembly may by Law make provisions for the establishment of a Contingencies Fund for the State and for authorising the Governor, if satisfied that there...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 122. Authorisation of expenditure in default of appropriations
If the Appropriation Bill in respect of any financial year has not been passed into Law by the beginning of the financial year, the Governor may authorise the withdrawal...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 121. Authorisation of expenditure from Consolidated Revenue fund
(1) The Governor shall cause to be prepared and laid before the House of Assembly at any time before the commencement of each financial year estimates of the revenues...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 120. Establishment of Consolidated Revenue Fund
(1) All revenues or other moneys raised or received by a State (not being revenues or other moneys payable under this Constitution or any Law of a House of Assembly into...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 119. Power of National Assembly as to determination of certain questions
The National Assembly shall make provisions as respects – (a) persons who may apply to an election tribunal for the determination of any question as to whether...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 118. Supervision and election
The registration of voters and the conduct of elections shall be subject to the direction and supervision of the Independent National Electoral Commission.
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 117. Direct election and franchise
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, every State constituency established in accordance with the provisions of this part of this Chapter shall return one...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 116. Time of elections to Houses of Assembly
(1) Elections to a House of Assembly shall be held on a date to be appointed by the Independent National Electoral Commission. (2) The date mentioned in subsection (1)...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 115. Time when alteration of state constituencies takes effect
Where the boundaries of any State constituency established under section 112 of this Constitution are altered in accordance with the provisions of section 114 of this...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 114. Periodical review of State constituencies
(1) The Independent National Electoral Commission shall review the division of every State into constituencies at intervals of not less than ten years, and may alter...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 113. Size of state constituencies
The boundaries of each State constituency shall be such that the number of inhabitants thereof is as nearly equal to the population quota as is reasonably practicable.
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 112. State constituencies
Subject to the provisions of sections 91 and 113 of this Constitution, the Independent National Electoral Commission shall divide every state in the federation into such...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 111. Remuneration
A member of the House of Assembly shall receive such salary and other allowances as the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission may determine.
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 110. Recall
A member of the House of Assembly may be recalled as such a member if (a) there is presented to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission a petition...