Crucial statutory guidance on constitutional arrest safeguards, bail conditions, search warrant execution, police interrogation rules, and criminal defense under the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA).
No. Confiscating a citizen’s mobile device because they refused to pay an illegal bribe constitutes criminal extortion and robbery under Nigerian law....
No. Filming, photographing, or video-recording police officers performing their public duties in a public place is not a criminal offense under any...
No. A police officer cannot compel or force a suspect to write an extra-judicial statement in their own handwriting or make any...
Except in extraordinary cases involving grave capital felonies like murder or armed robbery, detaining a nursing mother and infant overnight in a...
No. Demanding or receiving money for police administrative bail is strictly illegal, corrupt, and constitutes an extortion offense under the Police Act...
While police officers have powers to conduct stop-and-search operations on public highways, searching a locked car trunk requires reasonable and articulable suspicion...
No. Under Nigerian criminal jurisprudence, individuals cannot lawfully consent to a public street fight that causes bodily harm or threatens public peace...
No. Under Nigerian statutory criminal law and child protection legislation, cultural practices or traditional discipline cannot justify physical or psychological child abuse....
No. Police officers in Nigeria cannot conduct arbitrary, random stop-and-search operations on pedestrians without possessing reasonable and articulable suspicion of an offense....
Generally no. To sustain a conviction for receiving stolen property under Nigerian criminal law, the prosecution must prove that you knew or...
