Nigeria and United state of America Constitutional Similarity and Differences by Yakubu Olalekan Abdulazeez, Matric Number : 1708031-003, Business Administration and Management, Lagos State Polythecnic, School of Business studies and Management. CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION ASSIGNMENT

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Nigeria and the United States: Some Constitutional Comparisons 

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page 40 note 3 Cole, supra, note 2 at p. 4. For a thorough discussion of Nigerian constitutional development, see Odumosu, The Nigerian constitution: history and development, 1963, pp. 3–139. The Republican Constitution superseded the independence Constitution of October 1st, 1960, which marked Nigeria’s transformation from a monarchy to a republic ...

Note: Constitutional differences are sometimes modified making them similar!

So, they are not permanent and can not be fully stated due to Case by-Case process which result to similarity position.

The constitutional differences of Nigeria and America is as stated:

page 40 note 2 Holden, “Race for leadership of Africa,” Manchester Guardian Weekly, November 23rd, 1961, p. 5, Cols. 1–4. Cole, “The independence constitution of federal Nigeria,” (1961), 50 The South Atlantic Quarterly 1.

page 51 note 6 Ibid.; in s. 24 (2) there is another good example of the Nigerian Constitution going into greater detail than its American counterpart and thereby attempting to meet some of the church-state problems that the United States Supreme Court has had to face. It explicitly states: “No person attending any place of education shall be required to receive religious instruction or to take part in or attend any religious ceremony or observances if such instruction, ceremony or observances relate to a religion other than his own.” The United States Supreme Court through a caseby-case process has arrived at a similar position. For recent examples of the United States Court dealing with this problem, see School District of Abbington v. Schempp and Murray v. Curlett (1963), 373 U.S. 901; Zorach V. Clauson (1952), 343 U.S. 306; Engel v. Vitale (1962), 370 U.S. 421.page 51 note 5 McCollum v. Board of Education (1948), 333 U.S. 203.

Moreover,

the major similarity is that, the both are Supreme Court of Law...

The Coat Of Arms

The Coat of Arms is a design on a shield used by countries or stated as a special or personal symbol.
In 1960, different coat of arms was used by the three region, the Northern, Western and the Eastern region. When the Mid- Western region was created, it also made provision for its own coat of arms, increasing the number to four. When Lieutenant Col. Yakubu Gowon, the then Head of State created 12 states out of the four regions, each state had its own coat of arms. In 1975, the Federal government put an end to the use of different coat of arms. The country adopted a single coat of arms which will serve as a symbol of unity. The shield symbolises the earth of Nigeria which is black in colour. The wavy bands which are painted in silver colour an the shield represent the River Niger and the River Benue, the two horses, which are white, stands for dignity. The ground on which the bearing stands has a “coctus spectablis” which is a common wild flower in Nigeria. The bird, an Eagle, represents strength.

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