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).
It depends on your age at the time of the offense and the severity of the crime. Nigerian law treats juvenile offenders...
Yes. Nigeria can extradite its citizens to other countries under bilateral extradition treaties and the Extradition Act 2004, but the process involves...
Under the Criminal Code applicable in Southern Nigeria, the age of criminal responsibility is 7 years. A child below 7 cannot be...
Not lawfully. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has no statutory mandate to arrest citizens based solely on a privately motivated...
No. A police officer cannot lawfully seize your phone, browse its contents, or delete any data on it without a valid search...
Not automatically. A confessional statement made by a suspect in police custody is only admissible as evidence in a Nigerian court if...
Yes. Routine, random searching of a citizen’s mobile phone by police officers during transit without a specific search warrant or reasonable suspicion...
Yes. Under Nigerian criminal jurisprudence, a defendant can be convicted of murder or culpable homicide even if the victim’s body is never...
No. Arresting a relative, spouse, or friend in place of a fleeing suspect is explicitly illegal and a severe criminal violation under...
No. The Nigerian Constitution strictly limits police detention without charge to 24 hours for offences triable by a Magistrate Court, and 48...
