Treaties1983Military (Buhari I)· Cap. A9

African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act

Domesticates the Banjul Charter; directly enforceable in Nigerian courts.

Standard citation

African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act (Cap. A9), Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The political & economic reality at enactment

The political and economic reality

Nigeria in 1983: who was in charge, the cabinet of the day, the GDP, and the crises that defined the period of this Act's commencement.

President · Second Republic

Alhaji Shehu Shagari

1979–1983· NPN

National reality

First executive presidency. Oil-price crash from 1981 destroyed the boom. Ghana Must Go expulsion of West African migrants (1983). Disputed re-election in 1983, then the Buhari/Idiagbon coup on 31 December 1983.

Crises of the period

Oil price collapse 1981–83
Maitatsine riots Kano (1980)
Ghana Must Go (1983)
31 December 1983 coup

GDP (World Bank)

$64 bn (1980, oil peak) → $30 bn (1983, bust)

Cabinet (selected portfolios)

Finance
Sunday Essang → Onaolapo Soleye
Education
Sylvester Ugoh; later others (being compiled)

Sources · Federal Gazette 1979–83 · CBN Annual Reports

Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged

Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.