Characterisation and classification of tribunals and inquiries in Nigeria

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Title:	Characterisation and classification of tribunals and inquiries in Nigeria
Author:	Adediran, M. Olu
Year:	1995
Periodical:	Verfassung und Recht in Übersee
Volume:	28
Issue:	4
Pages:	522-549
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	courts commissions of inquiry
Abstract:	This article characterizes and classifies the various tribunals and inquiries that exist in Nigeria today. The characteristics of tribunals and inquiries are described in analogy with those of courts of justice: creation, permanence, empowering statute, jurisdiction, purpose, rules of evidence, composition, publicity. Tribunals are quasijudicial bodies established by the administration to provide solutions to administrative problems. In Nigeria, the following categories of tribunal can be distinguished: social services and economic tribunals, industrial relations tribunals, domestic (professional) tribunals, 'judicial' tribunals, land tribunals, election petition tribunals, public officers' tribunals, and departmental tribunals. Inquiries are set up to investigate allegations of impropriety, negligence and at times to find facts in relation to a policy that is to be adopted by the administration. Inquiries set up in Nigeria include administrative policy inquiries, land matters inquiries, chieftaincy inquiries, disaster and civil disturbances inquiries, and financial impropriety inquiries. Notes, ref., sum. (p. 420).