Foreign Law by Jurisdiction: Nigeria

Includes judgments.

Contains machine-produced English translations of the legislation of Nigeria. Warning: Machine-based translations should not be relied upon in important documents and writings.

This list of the laws contains links to full text for a few of them.

The Legislation section of the GlobaLex guide (listed in the Research Guides box on this page) describes the latest two compilations of Nigerian laws, one in 1990 covering through January 1990, and the second in 2004, covering through December 2002. This ICFNL page has an alphabetical list of the enactments and subsidiary legislation made from 1990 to December 31, 2000, that are still in force, plus annual pages listing new laws for 1990 through 2006 and for 2011, with full text for some of the laws. As described in the GlobaLex guide, Nigerian law also includes some English law, laws of Nigerian states, customary law, ethnic/non-Moslem law, Islamic/Moslim/Sharia law,and judicial precedents.

News and legal developments drawn from "official national legal publications and reliable press sources."

Acts, bills, Hansard (reports), notice papers, votes and proceedings, and order papers.

Judgments from 1963 to date, with a search engine. NOTE: The guides listed in the Research Guides box on this page provide the titles of various published case reporters for Nigeria.

By Yemisi Dina, John Akintayo & Funke Ekundayo.

Marci Hoffman, General Ed., University of California, Berkeley Law Library. Describes the general sources of law and cites to specific laws on various subjects such as taxation.

By Heather Memess.

By Aslihan Bulut.

By Marylin Johnson Raisch.