Nigeria
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- federal presidential republic
- CONSTITUTION
- a new constitution was adopted in 1999
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on English common law, Islamic law (in 12 northern states), and tribal norms
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, Senate and House of Representatives
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court (judges appointed by the Provisional Government Council); Federal Court of Appeal (judges appointed by the federal government on the recommendation of the Advisory Judicial Committee)
RELIGIONS
50% Muslims, 40% Christians, 10% local beliefs
From the country
- JULY 6, 2005NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA. COURT DROPS TREASON CHARGE AGAINST YOUNG FOOTBALLERS
a Nigerian court found 53 young men who attempted to stage a football tournament in honour of the defunct separatist "Republic of Biafra" not guilty of treason, saving them from the gallows.
- MAY 31, 2005NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA. COURT UPHOLDS MAN’S APPEAL AGAINST STONING TO DEATH
a Sharia Court of Appeal, sitting in Bauchi State, Nigeria, upheld an appeal by Umar Tori against his conviction and sentence to death by stoning for adultery.
- MAY 19, 2005NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
United States Human Rights and Democracy report...
United States Human Rights and Democracy report...
- MAY 9, 2005NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
"A system that would take a life must first give justice."
"A system that would take a life must first give justice."
- APRIL 20, 2005NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA. COURT SENTENCES 15 TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR MURDERS
the Abakaliki high court, Nigeria, sentenced 15 people to death by hanging for killing three over a land dispute.
- APRIL 20, 2005NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Nigeria abstained from the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
Nigeria abstained from the resolution on the death penalty at the 61st UN Commission on Human Rights.
- MARCH 31, 2005NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA. TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MOTEL MURDER
Bayo Ajia and Olayinka Aare were sentenced to death by the Ilorin High Court, in Nigeria’s Kwara state, after being found guilty of the murder of Abdul Yekini Gobir and AbdulGaniyu Isele in an Ilorin hotel.
- MARCH 24, 2005IndonesiaDEATH PENALTY
last-minute efforts by Samuel Iwukchukwu Okoye and Hansen Anthony Nwalise...
last-minute efforts by Samuel Iwukchukwu Okoye and Hansen Anthony Nwalise...
- MARCH 17, 2005NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
the High Court in central Nigeria’s Plateau State sentenced
the High Court in central Nigeria’s Plateau State sentenced
- MARCH 11, 2005NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
UNITED KINGDOM. SCOT ON DEATH ROW IN NIGERIA HAS MURDER CONVICTION QUASHED
the family of Scottish businessman Ian Millar, sentenced to death in Nigeria, spoke of their relief after his murder conviction was overturned. Millar, 56, spent a year and a half on death row after being found guilty of killing Anne Marie Gale, his girlf
- FEBRUARY 18, 2005NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
the Ogwashi Uku High Court in Delta State, Nigeria, sentenced three people to death
the Ogwashi Uku High Court in Delta State, Nigeria, sentenced three people to death