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The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Fifth Alteration) Bill No. 19, 2022 (“the Bill”) sought to amend Chapter VII, Part IV of the Principal Act (the 1999 Constitution), by inserting after the existing section 287, a new section ‘287A’, that will comprise 10 (ten) clauses. Clause 2 of the Bill proposed to mandate every trial superior court of record to deliver judgment on a matter before it, within 270 days (about nine months) from the date of the filing.

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR)on the 31st of May 2020 issued Guidelines for the Award and Operations of Marginal Fields in Nigeria, 2020 (“the Guidelines”). The aim of the Guidelines is