AN APPRAISAL OF MILITARY RULE AND THE NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION

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dc.contributor.authorIBRAHIM, BASHIR YUSUF
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-15T08:55:12Z
dc.date.available2017-12-15T08:55:12Z
dc.date.issued1999-02
dc.descriptionA Thesis Submitted to the Postgraduate School, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement for the Award of Doctor of Philosophy Law (Ph.D).en_US
dc.description.abstract'Constitution' may be defined as a- document having a special legal sanctity which sets out the framework and the principal functions of the organs of government within the state, 'and declares the principles which those' organs must operate. Moreover, it includes the whole system of government of a country, the collection of rules which establish and regulate or govern the government. Therefore, a constitution may be written or unwritten. But the practice of most modern governments, including Nigeria, is to "have a'' written constitution. Constitutional principles were gradually introduced into Nigeria,by the British colonial power from annexation of Lagos in 1862 to independence in 1"960. Thus, the issue of constitution for Nigeria has been as old as the formation of the country i t s e l f . Even after independence, the search for a durable constitution had occupied the government. The post independent constitutions for. Nigeria were usually short-lived as a result of Military' Coup D'etat. "Of the t h i r t y nine years of the country's existence, only ten years ' were spent under constitutional governments. Dictatorships, military or otherwise are antithesis of constitutional government. The Practice of Military Governments in Nigeria has been to' suspend or abrogate some certain sections of the. constitution. A kind of combination of dictatorship and constitutionalism.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/9766
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectAPPRAISAL,en_US
dc.subjectMILITARY RULE,en_US
dc.subjectNIGERIAN CONSTITUTION,en_US
dc.subjectAPPRAISAL OF MILITARY RULEen_US
dc.titleAN APPRAISAL OF MILITARY RULE AND THE NIGERIAN CONSTITUTIONen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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