Tag: State of Emergency
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Adegbenro Dauda Soroye was a politician in the Nigerian first republic and acting leader of the Action Group during the party crisis that preceded the military take-over of government in 1966. Born 1909 in Ago-Owu, he schooled at Baptist Boys High School, Abeokuta and Abeokuta Grammar School. He served at the Nigerian Railway Corporation from…
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State of Emergency is an emergency order taken to avert anarchy. Section 305 of the Nigerian 1999 Constitution empowers a sitting president to promulgate this rule whenever the peace of the country is threatened. This sparingly used federal executive power was first deployed in 29 May 1962 following the fracas on the floor of the…