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Supplement to Official Gazette

CONSTITUTION (AMENDMENT) DECREE 1972 Decree No.5 [17th January 1966) THE FEDERAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT hereby decrees as follows: 1. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Constitution of the Federation relating to the appointment and removal of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria are hereby amended as follows : (a) for subsection (1) of section 112 there shall be substituted the following new subsections "( I) The Chief Justice of Nigeria shall be appointed by the Head of the Federal Military Government. I (1A) The Justices of the Supreme Court shall be appointed by the Supr…