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
- MAY 30, 2000NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Saudi Arabia executed a Nigerian in Jeddah for smuggling...
Saudi Arabia executed a Nigerian in Jeddah for smuggling an unspecified quantity of cocaine into the kingdom
- MAY 13, 2000NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Seven Nigerians were executed and three had limbs amputated...
Seven Nigerians were executed and three had limbs amputated in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, after being convicted of bank robbery and assault
- MAY 8, 2000NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Former military governor of Kaduna State, Col
Former military governor of Kaduna State, Col
- APRIL 23, 2000NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Thousands of people gathered in Nigeria's Niger Delta...
Thousands of people gathered in Nigeria's Niger Delta for the symbolic reburial of the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa, whose execution by the military government in 1995 aroused worldwide condemnation
- MARCH 22, 2000NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Buba Bello Kare Garke Jangebe, a Moslem man described...
Buba Bello Kare Garke Jangebe, a Moslem man described as a notorious cow thief, had his right hand chopped off from the wrist
- FEBRUARY 10, 2000NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
Former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mohammed Bello,...
Former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mohammed Bello, said that the introduction of full Sharia in any state of the country is unconstitutional, adding the adoption of Sharia would inflict capital punishment on its citizens without written law
- JANUARY 27, 2000NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Federal Government warned that it would invoke...
The Federal Government warned that it would invoke the death penalty or a 21-year jail term on hoarders of petroleum products
- JANUARY 4, 2000NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
The Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo granted a...
The Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo granted a pardon to convicts waiting more than 20 years for execution