Part 2 of the Criminal Code Act in Nigeria. Offences against public order

• Chapter 6. Treason and certain other offences
  • Section 37. Treason
  • Section 38. Instigating invasion of Nigeria
  • Section 39. Provision as to juvenile offenders and pregnant women
  • Section 40. Concealment of treason
  • Section 41. Treasonable felonies
  • Section 42. Promoting inter‐communal war
  • Section 43. Time for proceeding in cases of treason, concealment of treason or promoting inter‐communal war
  • Section 44. Inciting to mutiny
  • Section 45. Aiding and inciting to mutinous acts or disobedience of members of armed forces or policemen
  • Section 46. Inducing such persons to desert
  • Section 46A. Causing disaffection among members of armed forces, police or prison officers
  • Section 47. Effect of proceeding under sections 44 and 45
  • Section 48. Assisting or allowing escape of prisoners of war
  • Section 49. Overt act
• Chapter 6A. Treachery
  • Section 49A. Death penalty for treachery
  • Section 49B. Joinder of charges and place of trial of offences
  • Section 49C. Extent of Chapter

  • Section 49D. (Deleted by L.N. 121 of 1964).

• Chapter 7. Sedition and the importation of seditious or undesirable publications
  • Section 50. Interpretation
  • Section 51. Offences
  • Section 52. Legal proceedings: evidence
  • Section 53. Unlawful oaths to commit capital offences
  • Section 54. Other unlawful oaths to commit offences
  • Section 55. Compulsion: how far a defence
  • Section 56. Effect of prosecution
  • Section 57. Unlawful drilling
  • Section 58. Power to prohibit importation of publications
  • Section 59. Publication of false news with intent to cause fear and alarm to the public
  • Section 60. Defamation of persons exercising sovereign authority over a State
• Chapter 8. Offences against the executive and legislative power
  • Section 61. Interference with executive or legislative power
• Chapter 9. Unlawful societies
  • Section 62. Definition of society and unlawful society
  • Section 62A. Unlawful societies in a State
  • Section 63. Managing an unlawful society
  • Section 64. Members of unlawful society: persons permitting an unlawful society to meet on their premises
  • Section 65. Provisions relating to prosecution for offences under sections 63 and 64
  • Section 66. Powers of peace officers in relation to unlawful societies
  • Section 67. Disposition of property of society declared to be an unlawful society
  • Section 68. Forfeiture
• Chapter 10. Unlawful assemblies: breaches of the peace
  • Section 69. Definitions: Unlawful assembly. Riot
  • Section 70. Punishment of unlawful assembly
  • Section 71. Punishment of riot
  • Section 72. Making proclamation for rioters to disperse
  • Section 73. Dispersion of rioters after proclamation made
  • Section 74. Rioting after proclamation
  • Section 75. Preventing or obstructing the making of proclamation
  • Section 76. Rioters demolishing buildings, machinery, railway, etc.
  • Section 77. Rioters injuring buildings, machinery, railway, etc.
  • Section 78. Smuggling or rescuing goods under arms
  • Section 79. Smuggling under arms or in disguise
  • Section 80. Going armed so as to cause fear
  • Section 81. Forcible entry
  • Section 82. Forcible detainer
  • Section 83. Affray
  • Section 84. Challenge to fight a duel
  • Section 85. Prize fight
  • Section 86. Threatening violence
  • Section 87. Assembling for the purpose of smuggling
  • Section 88. Unlawful processions
  • Section 88A. Provoking breach of peace by offensive publication

Part 2 Criminal Code Act