¹ The White Paper on the Federal Military Government's Views on the Report of the Customary Courts Reform Committee, 1978, is reproduced below as Appendix A. The terms of reference and summary of recommendations of the committee are contained in the White Paper. The summary of the recommendations of the Report of the Area Courts Reform Committee, 1977, is reproduced below as Appendix B.

² Reproduced as Appendix C. See N. Tobi at pp. 133–5.

³ “Abolition of customary courts—the Nigerian experiment”, [1976] J.A.L. 1.

⁴ Report of the Customary Courts Reform Committee, 18.

⁵ See Appendixes A and B.

⁶ Report of C.C.R.C, 18.

⁷ Ibid., 20.

⁸ Ibid., 21.

⁹ Ibid., 22.

^{page 162 note 1} Ibid., 22.

^{page 162 note 2} Ibid., 23.

^{page 162 note 3} Ibid., 34a. Statistics obtained by the author for 1977 and the first two quarters of 1978 support these figures.

^{page 162 note 4} Recommendation No. 11, would exclude legal practitioners from all customary courts.

^{page 162 note 5} Report of the G.G.R.C., 170.

^{page 162 note 6} Ibid., 25f.

^{page 162 note 7} Ibid., 32f.

^{page 162 note 8} Report of A.G.R.C, 39. [The table has been adjusted for obvious arithmetical errors. Editors.]

^{page 163 note 1} Magistrates’ courts sit for one day each week as district courts to hear civil cases.

^{page 163 note 2} Figures obtained by the author from the Chief Registrar.

^{page 163 note 3} White Paper, Recommendation 4: see Appendix A at 167.

^{page 163 note 4} The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, s. 245.

^{page 164 note 1} See Appendix B at 178.

^{page 164 note 2} Recommendation 4, see Appendix A at 168.

^{page 164 note 3} See Appendix A at 170; see also Summary of Recommendations, Report of A.G.R.G., Appendix B.

^{page 164 note 4} Appendix A at 170.

^{page 164 note 5} See Appendix B at 180.

^{page 164 note 6} See Appendix B at 181.

^{page 164 note 7} White Paper, Recommendation 17; see Appendix A at 172.

^{page 164 note 8} Report of C.G.R.G., 154.

^{page 164 note 9} Report of C.G.R.G., 156, 157.

^{page 164 note 10} Report of A.G.R.G., 33, s. 29.

^{page 165 note 1} My italics.

^{page 165 note 2} Report of A.G.R.G., 29, s. 54.

^{page 165 note 3} See Appendix B at 183.

^{page 165 note 4} Report of A.G.R.G., 30, s. 56.

^{page 165 note 5} Report of A.G.R.G., 27f, s. 46.

^{page 165 note 6} Ibid. 17, s. 13.

^{page 165 note 7} See Appendix A at 171.

^{page 166 note 1} Report of A.G.R.C., 29, s. 53.

^{page 166 note 2} Report of C.C.R.C., 139–153.