Category: Chapter 5. The Legislature
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 109. Tenure of Seat of Members
(1) A member of a House of Assembly shall vacate his seat in the House if ¬ (a) he becomes a member of another legislative house; (b) any other circumstances arise...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 108. Right of attendance of President
(1) The Governor of a State may attend a meeting of a House of Assembly of the State either to deliver an address on State affairs or to make such statement on the...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 107. Disqualifications
(1) No person shall be qualified for election to a House of Assembly if ¬ (a) subject to the provisions of Section 28 of this Constitution, he has voluntarily acquired...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 106. Qualifications for election
Subject to the provisions of section 107 of this Constitution, a person shall be qualified for election as a member of a House of Assembly if – (a) he is a citizen...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 105. Dissolution and issue of proclamation by Governor
(1) A House of Assembly shall stand dissolved at the expiration of a period of four years commencing from the date of the first sitting of the House. (2) If the...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 104. Sittings
A House of Assembly shall sit for a period of not less than one hundred and eighty-one days in a year.
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 103. Committees
(1) A House of Assembly may appoint a committee of its members for any special or general purpose as in its opinion would be better regulated and managed by means of...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 102. Vacancy or participation of legislative power of a strangers not to invalidate state proceedings.
A House of Assembly may act notwithstanding any vacancy in its membership, and the presence or participation of any person not entitled to be present at or to...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 101. Regulation of procedure
Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, a House of Assembly shall have power to regulate its own procedure, including the procedure for summoning and recess of...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 100. Mode of exercising legislative power of a state
(1) The power of a House of Assembly to make laws shall be exercised by bills passed by the House of Assembly and, except as otherwise provided by this section, assented...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 99. Unqualified person sitting or voting
Any person who sits or votes in a House of Assembly of a State knowing or having reasonable grounds for knowing that he is not entitled to do so commits an offence and...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 98. Voting
(1) Except as otherwise provided by this Constitution, any question proposed for decision in a House of Assembly shall be determined by the required majority of the...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 97. Languages
The business of a House of Assembly shall be conducted in English, but the House may in addition to English conduct the business of the House in one or more other...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 96. Quorum
(1) The quorum of a House of Assembly shall be one-third of all the members of the House. (2) If objection is taken by any member of a House of Assembly present that...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 95. Presiding at sittings
(1) At any sitting of a House of Assembly, the Speaker of that House shall preside, and in his absence the Deputy Speaker shall preside. (2) In the absence of the...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 94. Declaration of assets and liabilities; oaths of members
(1) Every person elected to a House of Assembly shall before taking his seat in that House, declare his assets and liabilities in the manner prescribed in this...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 93. Staff of house of Assembly
There shall be a Clerk to a House of Assembly and such other staff as may be prescribed by a Law enacted by the House of Assembly, and the method of appointment of the...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 92. Speaker of House of Assembly
(1) There shall be a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker of a House of Assembly who shall be elected by the members of the House from among themselves. (2) The Speaker or...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 91. Composition of the House of Assembly
Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, a House of Assembly of a State shall consist of three or four times the number of seats which that State has in the House...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 90. Establishment of House of assembly for each State
There shall be a House of Assembly for each of the States of the Federation.