Constitution Review Committee, National Assembly, Nigerian Senate President, Senate Ad-HOC
Speech By The Senate President Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, At The Senate Ad-HOC Committee On Constitution Review – 17th June, 2016.
Nigerian ConstitutionAugust 10, 2016
Distinguished colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, you would recall that in earlier this year upon the inauguration of this all important committee, I did make the point...
Third Schedule. Part 1. H – National Economic Council
Nigerian ConstitutionApril 13, 2014
18. The National Economic Council shall comprise the following members (a) the Vice-President who shall be the Chairman; (b) the Governor of each State of the...
Chapter 7. Part 2. Section 284. Practice and Procedure
Nigerian ConstitutionApril 7, 2014
Subject to the provisions of any law by the House of Assembly of the State, the President of the Customary Court of Appeal of the State may make rules for regulating the...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 112. State constituencies
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 24, 2014
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
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 24, 2014
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 108. Right of attendance of President
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 24, 2014
(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 105. Dissolution and issue of proclamation by Governor
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 23, 2014
(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
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 23, 2014
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
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 23, 2014
(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.
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 23, 2014
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
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 23, 2014
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
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 23, 2014
(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
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 23, 2014
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
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 23, 2014
(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
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...