The Advocate By Onikepo Braithwaite
Onikepo.braithwaite@thisdaylive.com
Definition of Fundamental Rights
Chapter IV of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended)(the Constitution) donates fundamental rights to all Nigerian citizens – the right to life, liberty, dignity, fair hearing, freedom of movement, expression, privacy, thought, religion, association, acquisition of immovable property anywhere in the country, freedom from torture, inhuman treatment and discrimination etc. In Hassan v EFCC & Ors (2024) LPELR-62999 (SC) per Obande Festus Ogbuinya, JSC, the Supreme Court held thus: “Fundamental rights have been defined as “the rights one holds by virtue; solely of being a human person, that is to say, right naturally inhering in the human being….fundamental rights occupy kingly positions, in the pyramid of human rights”.
Rescue of Oriire Abductees
