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The Exercise of Emergency Powers and Suspension of Democratic Structures in Nigeria and India

This paper entitled ‘The Exercise of Emergency Powers and Suspension of Democratic Structures in Nigeria and India’ examines the constitutional and political issues in the exercise of emergency powers in the two nations with an appraisal of what obtains in Pakistan. The paper interrogates and analyses the constitutional provisions and judicial review of the exercise of emergency powers in the jurisdictions. The provision of emergency powers in National constitutions envisages the corruption of situations where the flow of normal constitutional and democratic practices have been truncated and p…