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The Legal Order and the Administration of Federal and State Courts

The Nigerian Constitution of 1989 establishes a system of federal and state courts, but within a structure of unified federal-state jurisdiction from the federal and state high courts, to the federal Court of Appeal, and to the national Supreme Court. Thus, both sets of courts exercise jurisdiction with respect to federal and state laws. Although this system mitigates certain federal-state jurisdictional conflicts, it does not eliminate such conflicts. At the same time, however, the Constitution also provides for Sharia courts of appeal under Moslem law and for customary-law courts of appeal, …