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Chapter 7 of the Criminal Code Act in Nigeria. 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 7 Criminal Code Act

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