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Second-highest constitutional office in Nigeria

The vice president of Nigeria is the second-highest official in the executive branch of the federal government of Nigeria, after the president of Nigeria, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession. Officially styled Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the vice president is directly elected together with the president to a four-year term of office.

Kashim Shettima is the 15th and current vice president of Nigeria, he assumed office on 29 May 2023.

Eligibility

Candidates eligible for the office of vice president must be a citizen of Nigeria by birth, at least 40 years of age, a member of a political party and is sponsored by that political party.

Oath of office

The Constitution of Nigeria specifies an oath of office for the vice president of the federation. The oath is administered by the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria or the person for the time being appointed to exercise the functions of that office. It is the same oath recited by deputy state governors, ministers, commissioners and special advisers to the president.

So help me God.

The executive functions of the Nigerian vice president includes participation in all cabinet meetings by statute and membership in the National Security Council, Federal Executive Council, and a constitutional role of being the chairman of the National Economic Council. Although the vice president may take an active role in establishing policy in the executive branch by serving on such committees and councils, the relative power of the Nigerian vice president depends upon the duties delegated by the president. Contrary to some opinions that the vice president has a statutory function of representing the president in any occasion or chairing committees and council meetings, according to the Nigerian constitution, it is the prerogative of the president to choose whoever i

Vice President of Nigeria from 1979 to 1983

Alexander Ifeanyichukwu EkwuemeGCON (21 October 1932 – 19 November 2017) was a Nigerian politician who served as the first elected vice president of Nigeria from 1979 to 1983 during the Second Nigerian Republic under President Shehu Shagari as a member of the National Party of Nigeria.

Personal life

Alex Ekwueme was born to Igbo parents in Oko Town, in present day Anambra State on 21 October 1932. He died at 10:00pm on Sunday 19 November 2017 at a clinic in London. He had to be flown there after his relapse to a coma which he fell into as a result of his fall in his Enugu residence.

Education

Ekwueme started primary school at the St John's Anglican Central School, at Ekwulobia, then he proceeded to King's College, Lagos. As an awardee of the Fulbright Scholarship in the United States of America (being one of the first Nigerians to gain the award), He attended the University of Washington where he earned bachelor's degree in Architecture and city planning.

He obtained his master's degree in urban planning. Dr. Ekwueme also earned degrees in sociology, history, philosophy and law from the University of London. He later proceeded to obtain a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Strathclyde, before gaining the BL (honours) degree from the Nigerian Law School.

Early career

Ekwueme was a distinguished architect. He started his professional career as an Assistant Architect with a Seattle-based firm, Leo A. Daly and Associates, and also with the London based firm Nickson and Partners. On his return to Nigeria, he joined ESSO West Africa, Lagos, overseeing the Construction and Maintenance department.

He then went on to create a successful private business with his firm - Ekwueme Associates, Architects and Town Planners, the first indigenous architectural firm in Nigeria. H

INTERPOL, The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC’s) key partner in the ENACT project (Enhancing African Capacity to Combat Transnational Organised Crime) is currently meeting in Istanbul for its general assembly. At the meeting, members of INTERPOL’s Executive Committee will be elected, including vice presidents, who, together with the president, represent Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.

Nigeria’s Assistant Inspector General of Police, Garba Baba Umar, is a candidate for the vice president position representing Africa. Nigeria is of strategic importance to regional and global security, and the illicit economy. Insurgency; human trafficking and smuggling; arms trafficking; the narcotics trade; illicit financial flows; piracy; illicit plastic-waste flows; wildlife trafficking; illegal fishing; crude-oil theft; illegal mining; and counterfeiting are just some of the transnational organized crime types converging in West Africa, where the GI-TOC recently established a regional observatory of illicit economies.

Umar is head of INTERPOL’s National Central Bureau in Nigeria. He holds master’s degrees in law and criminal justice, and international relations and strategic studies. He spoke with journalist and GI-TOC Network Expert Emmanuel Mayah in Abuja.

Why is it important for Nigeria to be represented on INTERPOL’s Executive Committee under vice president?

The country’s vast geographic terrain, its huge population, its ocean wealth, its multiplicity of natural resources, its robust human capital and the size of its market confer on Nigeria the highest stake in any equation in sub-Saharan Africa. Instability or conflict in any part of the continent invariably produces an aftershock in Nigeria. And environmental factors, like the drought in Sudan, can precipitate undesirable consequences in the form of forced migration to Nigeria, with its accompanying security challenges.

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