Category: Part 1 National Assembly
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 70. Remuneration
A member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives shall receive such salary and other allowances as Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission may...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 69. Recall
A member of the Senate or of the House Representatives may be recalled as such a member if – (a) there is presented to the Chairman of the Independent National...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 68. Tenure of Seat of Members
(1) A member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives shall vacate his seat in the House of which he is a member if – (a) he becomes a member of another...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 67. Right of Attendance of President
(1) The President may attend any joint meeting of the National Assembly or any meeting of either House of the National Assembly, either to deliver an address on national...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 66. Disqualifications
(1) No person shall be qualified for election to the Senate or the House of Representatives if: (a) subject to the provisions of section 28 of this Constitution, he has...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 65. Qualifications for election
(1) Subject to the provisions of section 66 of this Constitution, a person shall be qualified for election as a member of: (a) the Senate, if he is a citizen of Nigeria...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 64. Dissolution and issue of proclamations by president
(1) The Senate and the House of Representatives shall each stand dissolved at the expiration of a period of four years commencing from the date of the first sitting of...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 63. Sittings
The Senate and the House of Representatives shall each sit for a period of not less than one hundred and eighty-one days in a year.
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 62. Committees
(1) The Senate or the House of Representatives may appoint a committee of its members for such special or general purpose as in its opinion would be better regulated and...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 61. Vacancy or participation of strangers not to invalidate proceedings
The Senate or the House of Representatives may act notwithstanding any vacancy in its membership, and the presence or participation of any person not entitled to be...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 60. Regulation of procedure
Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the Senate or the House of Representatives shall have power to regulate its own procedure, including the procedure for...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 59. Mode Of Exercising Federal Legislative Power: Money Bills
(1) The provisions of this section shall apply to: (a) an appropriation bill or a supplementary appropriation bill, including any other bill for the payment, issue or...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 58. Mode of exercising Federal Legislative power: general
(1) The power of the National Assembly to make laws shall be exercised by bills passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives and, except as otherwise...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 57. Unqualified person sitting or voting
Any person who sits or votes in the Senate or the House of Representatives knowing or having reasonable grounds for knowing that he is not entitled to do so commits an...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 56. Voting
(1) Except as otherwise provided by this Constitution any question proposed for decision in the Senate or the House of Representatives shall be determined by the...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 55. Languages
The business of the National Assembly shall be conducted in English, and in Hausa, Ibo and Yoruba when adequate arrangements have been made therefor.
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 54. Quorum
(1) The quorum of the Senate or of the House of Representatives shall be one-third of all the members on of the Legislative House concerned. (2) The quorum of a joint...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 53. Presiding at sitting of the National Assembly and at joint sittings
(1) At any sitting of the National Assembly – (a) in the case of the Senate, the President of the Senate shall preside, and in his absence the Deputy President...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 52. Declaration of assets and liabilities; oath of members
(1) Every member of the Senate or the House of Representatives shall, before taking his seat, declare his assets and liabilities as prescribed in this Constitution and...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 51 . Staff of the National Assembly
There shall be a Clerk to the National Assembly and such other staff as may be prescribed by an Act of the National Assembly, and the method of appointment of the Clerk...