As controversy continues to trail the Samoa Agreement recently signed by the Nigerian Government, a legislative drafting expert, Dr Clinton Jaja, has urged the National Assembly to amend Nigeria's Treaty-Making (Procedure etc) Act, 1993. The Act stipulates the procedure for ratification of treaties and agreements by the Nigerian Federal Government.
As controversy continues to trail the Samoa Agreement recently signed by the Nigerian Government, a legislative drafting expert, Dr Clinton Jaja , has urged the National Assembly to amend Nigeria's Treaty-Making Act, 1993. The Act stipulates the procedure for ratification of treaties and agreements by the Nigerian Federal Government.
'Yesterday, I asked a Professor of International Law, at the University of Benin, he informed me that by virtue of Sections 19 and 23 of the Vienna Convention of the Laws of Treaties, 1969, Nigeria cannot at this stage raise any objection or 'reservation' to any clause or Article contained inside the Legislative text of the said Samoa Agreement.
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