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
- DECEMBER 17, 2014NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA TO PUT 54 SOLDIERS TO DEATH FOR REFUSAL TO FIGHT BOKO HARAM
A court martial in Nigeria has sentenced 54 soldiers to death for mutiny, assault, cowardice and refusing to
OCTOBER 28, 2014NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: COURT ORDERS STAY OF EXECUTION ON CONVICTED SOLDIERS
A Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the Nigerian Army to stay execution on the death sentence passed
- OCTOBER 24, 2014NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: A MAN WHO CHEATED HANGMAN AT GALLOWS FREED AFTER 19 YEARS
OCTOBER 1, 2014NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: DELTA STATE GOVERNOR FREES THREE ON DEATH ROW
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State granted pardon to three men awaiting execution to mark
JULY 16, 2014MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: NIGERIAN STUDENT SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
A Nigerian private college student was sentenced to death by the High Court in Malaysia, after he was
JULY 15, 2014NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: FATHER SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING
A Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, presided over by Justice Ebenezer Adebanjo has sentenced to
JULY 15, 2014NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: OGWUCHE, NYANYAN BLAST MASTERMIND, EXTRADITED FROM SUDAN
Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche the co-mastermind of the Nyanya Motor Park bombing, in which scores of citizens
JUNE 18, 2014NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: ECOWAS COURT UPHOLDS RIGHTS OF JUVENILE OFFENDERS ON DEATH ROW
in a landmark verdict, the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS
JUNE 9, 2014NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: PASTOR, EVANGELIST, 2 OTHERS SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER ROBBERY
Nine years after participating in a bank robbery, a pastor, Adeniyi Matthew, an Evangelist, Akeem
- JUNE 6, 2014NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: NYSC MEMBER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ROBBERY IN AKWA IBOM
The supreme court in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, re-affirmed the death sentence passed on a National Youth
- MAY 29, 2014NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
the Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, pardoned 15 inmates in prisons across the state to
the Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, pardoned 15 inmates in prisons across the state to
MAY 29, 2014NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: POLICEMAN TO HANG OVER MURDER
Justice Abdulkareem Abdulrazak of an Osun State High Court sitting in Ilesa has sentenced a police