Administrative Law

LAW 443

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW I

NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA

SCHOOL OF LAW

COURSE CODE: Law 443

COURSE TITLE: Administrative Law I

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ADMINISTRATIVE LAW I

Course Code: Course Title: Course Developer/Writer: Administrative Law I

Law 443

Simeon Igbinedion, LL.B., LL.M., B.L., PH.D., Faculty of Law, University of Lagos. Professor Animi Awah Ifidon Oyakhiromen, LL.B, LLM, M.Phil, Ph.D, BL

Course Editor:
AG. Dean,/Programme Leader:

Course Coordinator:

Mr. Ayodeji ige, LLM, BL

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COURSE GUIDE
CONTENTS PAGE

Introduction ……………………………………………………………………….. 1 What You Will Learn in this Course …………………………………………….... 2 Course Aims ………………………………………………………………………. 3 Course Objectives ………………………………………………………………… 3 Study Units ……………………………………………………………………….. 3-4 Tutor-marked Assignment ……………………………………………………....... 4

References/Further Reading ……………………………………………...……. 4

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ADMINISTRATIVE LAW I

Introduction Consider a situation where your residential property in which you have lived for decades has been demolished by the authorities of the FCT, or the Lagos State Ministry of Environment for allegedly being located in an industrial area. Suppose some customs officers at a checkpoint found you in possession of items which they claim to be contraband and, therefore, seized pursuant to the new Customs policy of zero-tolerance of goods likely to endanger the economic growth or contribute to the economic adversity of the country? But it turns out that you can, in law and in fact, possess or own those items. Imagine yourself as a principal of Secondary School in Lagos State. The host community of your School wrote a petition against you to the Ministry of Education. Acting on the petition, the Ministry indefinitely suspended you and later retired you compulsorily. How about a circumstance where a government department refuses you entry into its premises on the ground that you are