Advantages and Disadvantages of Delegated Legislation
Delegated legislation is defined as the act of transferring powers and functions through the Acts of parliament to other organisations such as ministries, local governments, public corporations, etc.
Laws made by these bodies are referred to as bye laws. Parliament finds it mere convenient to...
London Constitutional Conference - The conference was held in London between 23rd May and 26th June, 1957. The Secretary of State for the Colonies presided over the conference which was attended by eminent Nigeria politicians from the different political parties.
Limitations To Fundamental Human Rights
Fundamental human rights can be referred to as those inalienable (natural) rights, and privileges enjoyed by the citizens of a given state, which are usually stated in the constitution of the country. It is the responsibility of the state to ensure that its citizens enjoy these...
The terms local government and local administration are sometimes used interchangeably, but they mean different things. A local government is a government at the local level established by law to exercise specific powers within defined areas while Local administration is the governing of a local area by local agents who are appointed by, and responsible to, the central (state) government.
Deregulation is the process of removing state regulations. It is therefore opposite of regulation which refers to the process of the government regulating certain activities. It is also seen as the reduction or elemination of government power in a particular industry, usually eceated to creat more competition with the industry.
Southern Protectorate Of Nigeria - Although the indirect rule policy was a huge success in the Northern Protectorate, it was a mixed bag in the Southern Protectorate.
Types of Capitalism
Economic system that defends the freedom of the market.
Definition of Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system that defends the freedom of the market and that the means of production are privately owned.
In this way, it uses the market as a mechanism to efficiently use resources and have capital that generates...
In 1948, the United Nations Organization (UNO) adopted a convention known as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Many of the rights enshrined in the United Nations Declaration are incorporated in the constitutions of UNO member countries. Nigeria is not an exception.
An Electoral Constituency is simply an electoral district or an area from which one or more members of Representatives are elected into political offices. The division of a country into constituency is referred to as delimitation and it makes for equitability in the allocation of parliamentary seats.
The parliamentary system or cabinet system of government is where the Head of State is different from the Head of Government. That is, there are two persons running the affairs of the state. In this system of government, the Head of State is distinct from the Head of Government. | In a cabinet system of government, both the prime minister and his cabinet are selected from the parliament, and they are thus responsible and accountable to parliament in the performance of their functions. That is, they are individually and collectively responsible to parliament.
Federal Character Commission and Tribunal (Nigeria) | Although the federal character principle was enshrined in the 1979 Constitution, it was the 1999 Constitution that made provision for the establishment of the Federal Character Commission. The Commission has a Chairman and a representative from each state of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
Federal Civil Service Commission (FRCS) is one of the oldest public commissions in Nigeria having first been established as the Public Service Commission in 1951 under the Macpherson Constitution.
The Police Service Commission (Nigeria)
The Police Service Commission is to the Police what the National Judicial Service Commission is to the judiciary.
The commission which has been in existence since 1979 deals primarily with service or staff matters. It handles with the appointment, promotion, discipline and dismissal of police officers...
The President is the Chairman of the Nigeria Council of State which was first established in 1975. It also has in its membership the Vice President (Vice Chairman), all former Presidents and Heads of State / Government, all former Chief Justices of Nigeria, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House Representatives, state governors and the Attorney General of the Federation.
A con-federal state or confederal system of government could be regarded as a loosed federation where ultimate power resides in state forming the alliances. It could also be regarded as a political arrangement in which autonomous reserved exclusively for the component states with a weak centre.
A confederal government is a form of government in which power is concentrated in the state or regional governments. This implies that the member-states of a confederation are more powerful than the central government. In any political system where the states are sovereign, the result is a confederation.
Decentralisation (Decentralization) is a system of administration in which responsibility and authority are given to subordinate bodies with definite powers within defined geographical areas. Decentralization therefore refers to an administrative process by which the central authorities vest power and authority on regional or local units or subordinate bodies to perform certain functions, which promote the welfare of the people.
