I.Ch. I · §§1–12
General Provisions
Supremacy of the Constitution. Federation and its territories. Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy.
12 sections
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The Eight Chapters
§§1–320II.Ch. II · §§13–24
Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles
Political, economic, social, educational, foreign-policy and environmental objectives. Non-justiciable in isolation, foundational in interpretation.
12 sections
III.Ch. III · §§25–32
Citizenship
Citizenship by birth, registration and naturalisation. Dual citizenship, renunciation, deprivation.
8 sections
IV.Ch. IV · §§33–46
Fundamental Rights
Right to life, dignity, personal liberty, fair hearing, private and family life, freedom of thought, expression, assembly, movement, freedom from discrimination — and the enforcement procedure.
14 sections
V.Ch. V · §§47–129
The Legislature
National Assembly: Senate and House of Representatives. Powers, qualifications, elections, sittings, committees, the legislative process itself.
83 sections
VI.Ch. VI · §§130–229
The Executive
President, Vice-President, Ministers, the Public Service. State executives: Governors, Deputies, Commissioners. Establishment and removal procedures.
100 sections
VII.Ch. VII · §§230–296
The Judicature
Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, Federal High Court, FCT High Court, State High Courts, Sharia and Customary Courts of Appeal. Appointment, tenure, jurisdiction.
67 sections
VIII.Ch. VIII · §§297–320
Federal Capital Territory, General Supplementary, Transitional
The FCT. Revenue allocation. Interpretation, citation and commencement.
24 sections
The Five Alterations
2010 — 20231st2010
Constitution (First Alteration) Act, 2010
Electoral timelines, INEC chairman tenure, by-election windows — the post-Yar'Adua reform package.
Act No. 1, 2010
2nd2010
Constitution (Second Alteration) Act, 2010
Pre-election matters and the 180-day petition rule — the architecture of modern election litigation.
Act No. 2, 2010
3rd2010
Constitution (Third Alteration) Act, 2010
Established the National Industrial Court as a superior court of record — §§254A–F.
Act No. 3, 2010
4th2017–2018
Constitution (Fourth Alteration) Acts, 2017–2018
Not-Too-Young-To-Run, financial autonomy for state legislatures and judiciaries, 30-day presidential assent rule.
Acts Nos. 1–9, 2017–18
5th2023
Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Acts, 2023
Devolution: electricity, railways, prisons moved to the Concurrent List. Local-government and state-judiciary autonomy. The biggest single edit of the 1999 Constitution.
Acts Nos. 1–16, 2023
6th2026
Constitution (Sixth Alteration) Bill, 2026 — State Police
Ends the federal police monopoly. Rewrites §§214, 215 and 84 to create a two-tier federal/state policing architecture.
Bill — pending Senate concurrence and 24 State HoAs
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.