NIGERIA often prides itself as “the giant of Africa”. If you are referring to population and (to a smaller extent, land mass, and general influence on the continent) this is a fairly justifiable claim. Nigeria, in terms of population, is by far the largest country in Africa. The July 2015 estimates of the index of populations of African countries put Nigeria at 181,563,000, distantly followed by Ethiopia with 103,764,000 and Egypt, 89,125,000. South Africa, which we claim to rub shoulders with as a co-continental giant has a population of 54,957,000. The question before us is: what is the situation of the Rule of Law in Nigeria after 58 years of independence? The only way to measure it is by comparing the situation in Nigeria to other countries in Africa and the world at large, using universally-validated metrics. The most prominent internationally-acclaimed authority on the Rule of Law index in the world is the World Justice Project, WJP, a Washington DC-based independent multidisciplinary organisation founded by William Neukon in 2006 as a presidential initiative of the American Bar Association, ABA. In its latest survey of 113 countries of the world conducted between 2017 and 2018, the WJP ranked Nigeria 97th, while the top three performers were (1) Denmark, (2) Norway and (3) Finland. While countries of Western Europe and North American occupied the top ten, sub-Saharan Africa, as usual, brought the rear. The shocking fact is that even in sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria scored 13th out of the 18 countries! Ghana came first, followed by South Africa and Botswana. Nigeria was only better than Madagascar, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and Cameroun. Instructively too, the indices showed that Nigeria was among the countries in which the situation of Rule of Law had declined across the indices from the 2015-2016 survey. Survey parameters The WJP broke the Rule of Law into subheads such as: Constraints on Government Powers, Absence of Corruption, Open Government, Fundamental Rights, Order and Security, Regulatory Enforcement, Civil Justice and Criminal Justice. Rule of law and security (1) By Femi Falana Constraints on government powers: This measures the extent to which those who govern are bound by law. Out of Nigeria’s 58 years of independence, the military ruled for 29 years. During that time, the military suspended parts of the Constitution and ruled by decrees, and most of them were with ouster and retroactive clauses. It was essentially “rule of the gun”, rather than rule of law. But in the past 20 years of our nascent democracy, the Constitution was fully restored. Rule of the gun rather  than rule of law But many Presidents (especially those with military backgrounds such as Olusegun Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari) and Governors have tended to ignore court orders or pick and choose what to comply with. Only recently, President Buhari insisted that he would continue to uphold “the security” of the nation above the rule of law. Absence of corruption: This category refers to the prevalence of bribery, improper influence of government officials and processes by private or public interests, and
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