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Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 97. Languages
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 23, 2014
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
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 23, 2014
(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
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 23, 2014
(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
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 23, 2014
(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
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 22, 2014
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
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 22, 2014
(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
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 22, 2014
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
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 22, 2014
There shall be a House of Assembly for each of the States of the Federation.
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 89. Power as to matters of evidence
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 22, 2014
(1) For the purposes of any investigation under section 88 of this Constitutional and subject to the provisions thereof, the Senate or the House of Representatives or a...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 88. Power to conduct investigations
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 22, 2014
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, each House of the National Assembly shall have power by resolution published in its journal or in the Official...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 87. Tenure of office of Auditor – General
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 22, 2014
(1) A person holding the office of the Auditor-General for the Federation shall be removed from office by the President acting on an address supported by two-thirds...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 85. Audit of Public accounts
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 22, 2014
(1) There shall be an Auditor-General for the Federation who shall be appointed in accordance with the provisions of section 86 of this Constitution. (2) The public...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 83. Contingencies Fund
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 22, 2014
(1) The National Assembly may by law make provisions for the establishment of a Contingencies Fund for the Federation and for authorising the President, if satisfied...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 82. Authorisation of expenditure in default appropriations
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 22, 2014
If the Appropriation Bill in respect of any financial year has not been passed into law by the beginning of the financial year, the President may authorise the...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 81. Authorisation of expenditure from Consolidated Revenue Fund
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 21, 2014
(1) The President shall cause to be prepared and laid before each House of the National Assembly at any time in each financial year estimates of the revenues and...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 80. Establishment of Consolidated Revenue Fund
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 21, 2014
(1) All revenues or other moneys raised or received by the Federation (not being revenues or other moneys payable under this Constitution or any Act of the National...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 78. Supervision of election
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 21, 2014
The registration of voters and the conduct of elections shall be subject to the direction and supervision of Independent National Electoral Commission.
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 77. Direct Election and franchise
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 21, 2014
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, every Senatorial district or Federal constituency established in accordance with the provisions of this Part of this...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 76. Time of Election to the National Assembly
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 21, 2014
(1) Elections to each House of the National Assembly shall be held on a date to be appointed by the Independent National Electoral Commission. (2) The date mentioned in...
Chapter 5. Part 1. Section 75. Ascertainment of population
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 21, 2014
For the purposes of section 72 of this Constitution, the number of inhabitants of Nigeria or any part thereof shall be ascertained by reference to the 1991 census of the...