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Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999

Official source page 112

Jurisdiction
Nigeria
Provision
112
Source language
English
Recorded status
in force
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Recorded status
in force

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bodies corporate established directly by any Law enacted by a House of Assembly of a State. 33. Insurance. 34. Labour, including trade unions, industrial relations; conditions, safety and welfare of labour; industrial disputes; prescribing a national minimum wage for the Federation or any part thereof; and industrial arbitration. 35. Legal proceedings between Governments of States or between the Government of the Federation and Government of any State or any other authority or person. 36. Maritime shipping and navigation, including - (a) shipping and navigation on tidal waters; (b) shipping and navigation on the River Niger and its affluents and on any such other inland waterway as may be designated by the National Assembly to be an international waterway or to be an inter-State waterway; (c) lighthouses, lightships, beacons and other provisions for the safety of shipping and navigation; (d) such ports as may be declared by the National Assembly to be Federal ports (including the constitution and powers of port authorities for Federal ports). 37. Meteorology 38. Military (Army, Navy and Air Force) including any other branch of the armed forces of the Federation. 39. Mines and minerals, including oil fields, oil mining, geological surveys and natural gas. 40. National parks being such areas in a State as may, with the consent of the Government of that State, be designated by the National Assembly as national parks. 41. Nuclear energy 42. Passports and visas 43. Patents, trade marks, trade or business names, industrial designs and merchandise marks. 44. Pensions, gratuities and other-like benefit payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund or any other public funds of the Federation. 45. Police and other government security services established by law. 46. Posts, telegraphs and telephones 47. Powers of the National Assembly, and the privileges and immunities of its members 48. Prisons 49. Professional occupations as may be designated by the National Assembly. 50. Public debt of the Federation

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Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 · nass.gov.ng · Retrieved 18 August 2026.

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