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JSS3 Civic Education

The Constitution

Overview

Define a Constitution; Identify the various colonial Nigerian Constitutions; Identify features of colonial constitutions; Discuss features of the Colonial Constitutions; Identify Constitutions promulgated after Nigerians became independent; Discuss elements of two of the identified independent Nigerian Constitutions

What you'll learn
  • Meaning of constitution.
  • Colonial Nigerian Constitution.
  • - Clifford Constitution 1922
  • - Richards Constitution 1946
  • - Macpherson Constitution 1951
  • - Lyttleton Constitution 1954
  • - 1960 Independence constitution
  • Features of colonial constitutions
  • Post-1960 constitutions: - 1963 Constitution (Republican Constitution) 1979 presidential constitution)
  • - 1989 presidential constitution
  • - 1999 presidential constitution
  • Features of post-1960 Constitutions.