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Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 115. Time when alteration of state constituencies takes effect
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 24, 2014
Where the boundaries of any State constituency established under section 112 of this Constitution are altered in accordance with the provisions of section 114 of this...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 114. Periodical review of State constituencies
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 24, 2014
(1) The Independent National Electoral Commission shall review the division of every State into constituencies at intervals of not less than ten years, and may alter...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 113. Size of state constituencies
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 24, 2014
The boundaries of each State constituency shall be such that the number of inhabitants thereof is as nearly equal to the population quota as is reasonably practicable.
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 110. Recall
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 24, 2014
A member of the House of Assembly may be recalled as such a member if (a) there is presented to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission a petition...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 109. Tenure of Seat of Members
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 24, 2014
(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
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 107. Disqualifications
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 24, 2014
(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
Nigerian ConstitutionMarch 24, 2014
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
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...