Policy of Nigeria

The Nigeria is a multi-party République federal with presidential regime, where the president is at the same time Head of the State and chief of the government. The executive power is with the hands of the government while the legislative power is shared between the government and the two rooms of the Parliament, the Senate and the Chambre of the representatives.

Executive power

Legislative power

The National Assembly is made up of two rooms. The Room of the representatives account 360 members elected for four years in districts with single seat. The Senate counts 109 members elected for four years (three members for each of the 36 States of the country, plus a member for the capital Abuja).

Political parties and elections

See Political parties of Nigeria and Elections in Nigeria.

Judicial power

Nigeria knows four system legal different: the English Right (inherited the Colonization by the the United Kingdom), the Common law, the constitutional law (developed during the post-colonial period) and the Charia (into force in the Moslem States of north).

More the legal high authority is the Supreme court.

Army

Army Nigerian has played important role in history of country, which knew several government soldiers, whose last ended in 1999, after the death of Sani Abacha in 1998.

The Army took part in operations of maintenance of peace to the Liberia, in Ex-Yugoslavia, Angola, with the Rwanda, in Somalia and Sierra Leone.

After the embargo observed by many Western States, Nigeria turned primarily to the Popular republic of China, the Russia, the North Korea and the India for the acquisition of armament.

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