Like most developing countries, Nigeria lacks adequate public access to every aspect of legal information. That was the indisputable finding of my Master of Laws (LLM) dissertation at the University of Huddersfield (United Kingdom) titled, "Public Access to Legislation and Its Inherent Human Rights: A Comparative Study of the United Kingdom and Nigeria."
The cost of access to legislation is prohibitive in Nigeria. Beyond the few pieces of legislation on the National Assembly website, there is no official online legislation database in the country and no public depository library programme where members of the public may access legislation free of charge. The result is that Nigerians must buy statute books and every copy of the Official Gazette containing legislation in order to know the laws in existence.
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