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Legal Aspects Of Foreign Investments And Financing Of Energy Products In Nigeria, Niki Tobi
Legal Aspects Of Foreign Investments And Financing Of Energy Products In Nigeria, Niki Tobi
Dalhousie Law Journal
Nigeria is a Federation consisting of twenty-one States, and a Federal Capital Territory. It is the largest African Country with probably the largest concentration of foreign investment potentialities with a viable and adequate financing. In the true tenet of Federalism, the 1979 Constitution provided for a distinction in the legislative powers between the central Government and the State Governments. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1989 has also maintained this federal arrangement. Although that is the constitutional position, the Military Government has, as a matter of policy, built into the system some element of unitarism in a federal …
Core Freedoms In Nigerian And U.S. Constitutions: A Study In Difference, Gordon A. Christenson
Core Freedoms In Nigerian And U.S. Constitutions: A Study In Difference, Gordon A. Christenson
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
This article compares core freedoms in the United States Constitution with similar constitutional experience encountered in the Nigerian Constitution. It is a study in difference, illuminated by learned papers and discussion of these issues by judges, lawyers, professors, journalists and activists in Nigeria. Moreover, to add a third dimension, differences and similarities in constitutional experiences are shown within the contemporary framework of international norms.