Attorney-general’s power to institute, take over and discontinue prosecutions

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• FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA V. OSAHON (2006)→

  Court

  Supreme Court of Nigeria

  Judgment date

  17 February 2006

  A summary of the Supreme Court decision on the competence of police officers to prosecute in the Federal High Court, addressing constitutional and statutory law

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