Category: States of Nigeria
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BAUCHI STATE LEGAL SYSTEM AND PROFILE
State Laws Attorney-General State Website Law Firms & Notaries Bauchi State, with capital at Bauchi, is located in the north-eastern part of It is located between latitudes 9o3 and 12o3l north of the equator. Longitudinally, the state lies between 8o50l and 11o east of the Greenwich meridian. The state is bordered to the north by Kano and…
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BAYELSA STATE LEGAL SYSTEM AND PROFILE
State Laws Attorney-General State Website Law Firms & Notaries Bayelsa was created in 1996 with three local governments carved out from the old Rivers State during the military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha. Its capital is Yenagoa, the traditional centre of the Ijaw people, one of Nigeria’s largest ethnic groups. Bayelsa State…
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BENUE STATE LEGAL SYSTEM AND PROFILE
State Laws Attorney-General State Website Law Firms & Notaries Benue state, with capital at Makurdi, was named after the famous River Benue, the second largest river in Nigeria, behind the River Niger. It was created out of the defunct Benue-Plateau State on 13, February 1976. Added to the emergent State was the enclave of…
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AKWA IBOM STATE – LEGAL SYSTEM AND PROFILE
State Laws Attorney-General State Website Law Firms & Notaries Akwa Ibom State, with capital at Uyo, derived its name from the Qua Iboe River. It was created on September 23, 1987 out of the old Cross River State by General Ibrahim Babangida’s military dictatorship. Akwa Ibom State is located in the coastal south-east…
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ADAMAWA STATE LEGAL SYSTEM AND PROFILE
Adamawa Laws Attorney-General State Website Law Firms & Notaries This ‘Land of Beauty’, as the sobriquet, goes was created in 1991 from the defunct Gongola State by the General Ibrahim Babangida led military regime. The state derives its name from Modibbo Adams a Fulani leader who led the 19thcentury jihad in Upper Benue Region.…
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ABIA STATE – LEGAL SYSTEM AND PROFILE
Abia Laws State Profile State Website Law Firms & Notaries Abia was created on 27th August, 1991, out of the old Imo state by the military dictatorship of General Ibrahim Babangida. Its capital is in Umuahia. Abia state is geographically located in the southeast region of Nigeria. It lies within approximate latitudes 4o 40’ and…