koffsman:
Hope you know that during that period we were been ruled by the westerns and also the military so it's quit different to democracy, he needs the national assembly of Lagos State to approve and it's only Sanwo-Olu that can deaclear such in Lagos and more so if Buhari wants to order for State of emergency he needs the Senate to approve but unfortunately senate sef no sit down so he has no power too no be military era we dey bros

InvertedHammer:
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The question is: Is Nigeria still running on colonial (pre-Independence) Constitution?

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Oracle23:


Did u go to school @all?

Wetin concern Nigeria with 1929 law? Was there a country called nigeria in 1929?

Oga be guided

naptu2:




I agree it needs to be amended, but it's not in the constitution. It's considered an act of the National Assembly. The National Assembly started the process of amending it late last year, but the bill has not yet been passed into law.

Sources of Nigerian law:

1) The Constitution

2) Acts of the national and state assemblies. (Decrees and edicts of military governments are now considered as acts of the state or national assembly)

3) Received English Law (Common Law, Doctrines of Equity, Statutes of General Application/laws made by the colonial government).

4) Judicial Precedent (court judgements).

5) Customary law (including sharia law).

6) Delegated legislation (Administrative agencies' regulations and rulings).

7) Historical, Literary or Formal sources (including latin maxims).

InvertedHammer:
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The question is: Is Nigeria still running on colonial (pre-Independence) Constitution?

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ikorodureporta:
How effective will the lockdown be if people still move from house to house, street to street??

Can they lock everyone in like Environmental sanitation day?? That's the only effective lockdown

helinues:
Has he done that yet?

States are the one currently dictating their policies regarding this coronavirus palava

naptu2:

deltateam:


So you didn't study the post well because you wanted to comment?

naptu2:

You missed yesterday's speech?

koffsman:
Hope you know that during that period we were been ruled by the westerns and also the military so it's quit different to democracy, he needs the national assembly of Lagos State to approve and it's only Sanwo-Olu that can deaclear such in Lagos and more so if Buhari wants to order for State of emergency he needs the Senate to approve but unfortunately senate sef no sit down so he has no power too no be military era we dey bros

naptu2:
1) Does the president have the power to lock down the FCT, Lagos and Ogun states?

Yes he does. (Bear with me, I'm going to tell you the full story).

A friend of mine told me something around a month ago. He joked that these flu pandemics seem to appear every 100 years. There was a similar pandemic in 1720, 1820 and in 1920.

Now, I remember my mother telling me a bit about this and I did my own research. The 1920 pandemic also affected Lagos. There was a quarantine, but some people were negligent in their duty and some people aboard one of the infected ships were able to come ashore. This enabled the Spanish Flu to spread in Lagos and people were taken to the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Ikoyi (I can't remember for sure, but I think she said that the IDH was at the location that Creek Hospital [Military Hospital now occupies on Awolowo Road in Ikoyi).

The Bubonic Plague also affected Lagos later in the 1920s.

These diseases led to the enactment of the Quarantine Act in 1926 (it has been amended a few times).

The Quarantine Act gives the president the power to declare any place within Nigeria or outside Nigeria as an infected place and it gives him the power to take all measures necessary to ensure that dangerous infectious diseases do not spread from that place to any other place in Nigeria.

Here's a link to the Quarantine Act. http://lawsofnigeria.placng.org/laws/Q2.pdf




Some people ask if state governors have the power to lock down their states. The act gives them that power if the president has not yet acted




Furthermore, some people say that the president can not lock down these places because the constitution gives people the right to freedom of movement.


They say that the only way that the president can lock down these places is by declaring a state of emergency. That's not true. Read section 45 (1a) of the constitution:


Here's a link to the constitution: http://www.nigeria-law.org/ConstitutionOfTheFederalRepublicOfNigeria.htm

naptu2:


You missed yesterday's speech?

PIPnator10:
People no go keep quiet now and respect the order of this yeye president for once.
I no like this president but that doesnt mean I no go respect this particular order.
This is exactly how America became the epicenter of this disease.
Trump gave order for stay at home, social distance, lockdown but they all flouted it.
Moved around like its a thing of pride to distribute the disease. Today, they have highest number of cases.

For once Nigeria, stay locked-down, restrain free and unnecessary movement until this disease is controlled and a possible vaccine is gotten.
Its simple!

onyeogalu1:



The quarantine act is still active.

helinues:
Has he done that yet?
States are the one currently dictating their policies regarding this coronavirus palava

koffsman:
Quarantine act is different from total Lock down

funmike83:
Why are we like this in nig. When the man didn't talk , you were all shouting , now that he gave directives, na another wahala. We are just too complex to rule in this country