Consisting of at least 250 ethnic groups and about 500 languages, Nigeria is a potpourri of various identities that has the outlook of a marriage of strange bedfellows. It shows in our diverse, and often contradictory, legal systems. Nigeria runs three criminal legal systems, the Criminal Code, the
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