"It is a well settled rule of the construction of statutes, that when a provision is made subject to another, that provision must be read subordinate to the provision it...
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"Once the civil rights and obligations of the plaintiffs as individuals are affected, as I hold they are here the courts in exercise of their judicial power set out above...
"Under our present condition, Decrees are the supreme laws in Nigeria and all other laws including the current Constitution are inferior to the Decrees... It follows therefore that the contention...
"The net result of the modification of section 212 of the 1979 Constitution is the substitution of an entirely new s.212 in Schedule 2 of Decree No.1 of 1984. The...