Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Fifth Alteration) Acts, 2023
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Official source20. Diplomatic, consular and trade representation.
21. Drugs and poisons.
22. Election to the offices of President and Vice-President or
Governor and Deputy Governor and any other office to which
a person may be elected under this Constitution, excluding
election to a local government council or any office in such
council.
23. Evidence.
24. Exchange control.
25. Export duties.
26. External affairs.
27. Extradition
28. Fingerprints, identification and criminal records.
29. Fishing and fisheries other than fishing and fisheries in rivers,
lakes, waterways, ponds and other inland waters within
Nigeria.
30. Immigration into and emigration from Nigeria.
31. Implementation of treaties relating to matters on this list.
32. Incorporation, regulation and winding up of bodies corporate,
other than co-operative societies, local government councils
and 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 arbitrations.
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;
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