B) Executive: law implementation/enforcement function
C) Judiciary: law interpretation/adjudication function
A) LEGISLATURE: This power of law making is vested upon the National Assembly (bicameral) at the Federal level and the House of Assembly (unicameral) for each of the States of the Federation at the State level. The National Assembly consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
The Senate has a total of one hundred and nine (109) Senators. It consists of three (3) Senators from each State and one (1) from the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
The House of Representatives consists of three hundred and sixty (360) members representing constituencies of nearly equal population within a State.
Current Leadership of the National Assembly
1. David Mark - Senate President
2. Ike Ekwerenmadu - Deputy Senate President
3. Aminu Tambuwal - Speaker, House of Representatives
4. Emeka Nkem Ihedioha - Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives
House of Assembly of a State
There is House of Assembly for each of the State of the Federation which consists of three(3) or (4) times the number of seats which that State has in the House of Representatives divided in a way to reflect, as far as possible, nearly equal population. A House of Assembly of a State consists of not less that twenty-four (24) and not more than (40) members. A House of Assembly also has a Speaker and a Deputy Speaker.
B) EXECUTIVE: This power of enforcing law is vested upon the President, who is the Head of State, the Chief Executive of the Federation and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federation. This power is also exercised by the Vice-President, Federal Ministers and officers in the public service of the federation at the federal level; and the Governor, Deputy-Governor, State Commissioners and officers of public service of the state at the state level.
C) JUDICIARY: This power of law adjudication/interpretation is vested upon the court. The Head of the Judiciary in Nigeria is the Chief Justice of the Federation who currently is Chief Justice Aloma Maryam Mukhtar
Hierarchy of the Court System in Nigeria:
1. The Supreme Court
2. The Court of Appeal
3. The Federal High Court
4. The Federal High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja
5. The High Court of a State
6. The Sharia Court of Appeal of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja
7. The Sharia Court of Appeal of a State
8. The Customary Court of Appeal of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja
9. The Customary Court of Appeal of a State
10. Any other Court as may be authorized by law of the National Assembly
11. Any other Court as may be authorized by law of a State House of Assembly.
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