Egede, Edwin  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7889-8840
2005.
Who owns the Nigerian offshore seabed: federal or states? An examination of the Attorney General of the Federation v. Attorney General of Abia State & 35 Ors Case.
Journal of African Law
49
(1)
, pp. 73-93.
10.1017/S0021855305000069
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Abstract
The decision of the Nigerian Supreme Court in the case of the Attorney General of the Federation v. the Attorney General of Abia State & 35 Ors. was delivered on 5 April, 2002 in respect of the proviso to section 162(2) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which incorporates what is popularly known in Nigeria as the “derivation formula”. It brought to the forefront the need to determine (especially as regards revenue derived from the oil and gas resources) whether the offshore bed of the territorial sea, exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of Nigeria should be regarded as part of the littoral states of the federation or not? This article critically examines the decision of the Supreme Court as it relates to the “ownership” of the offshore seabed as between the federal Government and the littoral states in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIR) |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JX International law |
| Additional Information: | Pdf uploaded in accordance with publisher's policy at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0021-8553/ (accessed 25/02/2014). |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISSN: | 0021-8553 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 30 March 2016 |
| Last Modified: | 04 May 2023 12:02 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/14416 |
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