Category: Part 1 Federal Executive
Third Schedule. Part 1. A – Code of Conduct Bureau
1. The Code of Conduct Bureau shall comprise the following members: (a) a Chairman; and (b) nine other members, each of whom, at the time of appointment, shall not be...
Chapter 6. Part 1. Section 175. Prerogative of mercy
(1) The President may – (a) grant any person concerned with or convicted of any offence created by an Act of the National Assembly a pardon, either free or subject...
Chapter 6. Part 1. Section 174. Public prosecutions
(1) The Attorney-General of the Federation shall have power (a) to institute and undertake criminal proceedings against any person before any court of law in Nigeria,...
Chapter 6. Part 1. Section 173. Protection of pension rights
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the right of a person in the public service of the Federation to receive pension or gratuity shall be regulated by...
Chapter 6. Part 1. Section 172. Code of Conduct
A person in the public service of the Federation shall observe and conform to the Code of Conduct.
Chapter 6. Part 1. Section 171. Presidential appointments
(1) Power to appoint persons to hold or act in the offices to which this section applies and to remove persons so appointed from any such office shall vest in the...
Chapter 6. Part 1. Section 170. Federal Civil service Commission: power to delegate functions
Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the Federal Civil Service Commission may, with the approval of the President and subject to such conditions as it may...
Chapter 6. Part 1. Section 169. Establishment of civil service of the Federation
There shall be a civil service of the Federation.
Chapter 6. Part 1. Section 168. Provisions with regard to payments
(1) Where any payment falls to be made under this Part of this Chapter, the amount payable shall be certified by the Auditor-General for the Federation; Provided that a...
Chapter 6. Part 1. Section 167. Sums charged on consolidated Revenue Fund
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...
Chapter 6. Part 1. Section 166. Set-off
(1) Any payment that is required by this Part of this Chapter to be made by the Federation to a State may be set-off by the Federation in or towards payment of any sum...
Chapter 6. Part 1. Section 165. Cost of collection of certain duties
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...
Chapter 6. Part 1. Section 164. Federal grants-in-aid of State revenue
(1) The Federation may make grants to a State to supplement the revenue of that State in such sum and subject to such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the...
Chapter 6. Part 1. Section 163. Allocation of other revenues
Where under an Act of the National Assembly, tax or duty is imposed in respect of any of the matters specified in item D of Part II of the Second Schedule to this...
Chapter 6. Part 1. Section 162. Distributable pool account
(1) The Federation shall maintain a special account to be called “the Federation Account” into which shall be paid all revenues collected by the Government...
Chapter 6. Part 1. Section 161. Interpretation
In this Part of this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires – (a) any reference to “ex officio member” shall be construed as a reference to a...
Chapter 6. Part 1. Section 160. Powers and Procedure
(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, any of the bodies may, with the approval of the President, by rules or otherwise regulate its own procedure or confer...
Chapter 6. Part 1. Section 159. Quorum and decisions
(1) The quorum for a meeting of any of the bodies established by section 153 of this Constitution shall be not less than one-third of the total number of members of that...
Chapter 6. Part 1. Section 158. Independence of certain bodies
(1) In exercising its power to make appointments or to exercise disciplinary control over persons, the Code of Conduct Bureau, the National Judicial Council, the Federal...
Chapter 6. Part 1. Section 157. Removal of members
(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (3) of this section, a person holding any of the offices to which this section applies may only be removed from that office...