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Supplement to Official Gazette

THE CONSTITUTION (SUSPENSION AND MODIFICATION) (No. 9) DECREE 1966 Decree No. 59 [Appointed day 1st September 1966- but see ss. 5 (2) and 6 (2)] ... : THE NATIONAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT hereby decrees as follows: 1.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this Decree, Nigeria shall as from 1st September 1966 (in this Decree referred to as "the appointed day") again be a Federation in accordance with sections 2 and 3 of the Constitution of the Federation; and accordingly the following Decrees are hereby repealed as from the appointed day, that is to say ( a) the Constitution (Suspension and Modification…