NIGERIAN LEGAL SYSTEM

1. Introduction

2. History of Nigerian Legal System

Sources of Nigerian Law

3. English Law

4. Nigerian Legislation

5. Customary Law

6. Judicial Precedent

7. Internal Conflict of Law

8. Modern system of Courts

9. Controlling bodies of the legal profession

10. Law Reporting

Organs of Government in the Legal System:

11. Position and nature of the Ministry of Justice & functions of the officers

12. Office of the Attorney General [Federal and State]

Extra Ministerial Bodies

13. Law Reform Commission

14. Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

15. Reforms in the Nigerian Legal System

CRIMINAL LAW

1. Overview of Criminal Law

2. History of Criminal Law in Nigeria

3. Definition of Crime and the relation of Crime to Civil Wrongs

4. Criminal culpability

5. Classification of offences

6. Liability

7. The justification of punishment

8. Burden and standard of proof

9. Elements of an offence

10.  Parties to an offence

11. Inchoate or preliminary offences

12. Causation

DEFENCES

13. Accident

14. Mistake

15. Insanity

16. Automatism

17. Intoxication

18. Self Defence

19. Provocation

20. Alibi

21. Criminal capacity

OFFENCES

22. Homicide (Murder & Manslaughter)

 23. Assault

 24. Sexual Offences

 25. Corruption

 26. Treason and Sedition

 27. Stealing and Theft

 28. Robbery

29. Others (E.T.C.)

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

1. Introduction and General Overview

2. Constitutional History in Nigeria

3. Types of Constitutions, their Advantages and Disadvantages

4. Constitutional Supremacy, Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Grundnorrn

5. Doctrine of necessity

6. Federalism and the Nigerian Federation

7. Rule of Law

8. The Doctrine of Human Rights and Fundamental Human Rights in Nigeria

9. Doctrine of Non Justiciability and Political Questions

10. Citizenship

11. Separation of Powers

12. Political Parties in Nigeria

13. The Executive

14. Executive Immunity

15. The Judiciary

16. The Legislature and the Doctrine of Covering the Field

17. Amendment of the Constitution

18. Creation of states and Boundary Adjustments

19. Local Government

20. Revenue Allocation

21. The Nigerian Armed Forces

22. The Nigerian Police Force

LAND LAWS

1. Introduction and overview

2. Sources of Nigerian Land Law

3. Customary Land Tenure

CUSTOMARY LAND LAW TRANSACTIONS

4. Sale of Land

5. Gift of Land

6. Land borrowing

7. Customary Tenancy

8. Kola Tenancy

9. Customary Pledge

10. The Land Use Act & its Incidences

11. Overview of English Land Transactions

a. Mortgage

b. Lease

c. Easement