FG reviews 932 laws, drops 269 obsolete enactments

The Federal Government of Nigeria has completed a review of 932 federal enactments and 731 subsidiary legislations, identifying 269 laws as obsolete, spent, or repealed for exclusion from the proposed 2025 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria. Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, disclosed this during the presentation of the final report of the Committee on the Review, Update, and Consolidation of the Laws of the Federation.

The exercise, necessary to update Nigeria's legal framework, was conducted over more than twenty years since the last official consolidation in 2004, during which significant legislative, constitutional, institutional, and technological developments have taken place.

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