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Marriages conducted at Federal Marriage Registries, including Ikoyi Registry are Invalid
A Federal Excessive Courtroom sitting in Lagos, has dominated that it’s unconstitutional for the federal authorities to conduct marriages.
The courtroom, presided over by Justice D. E. Osiagor, held that solely the native authorities marriage registries are empowered to do such by the provisions of the 1999 Structure (as amended).
Marriages carried out at Federal Marriage Registries
He submitted that the conduct of marriages and issuance of certificates are statutorily the job of the native governments as offered by the regulation.
The decide added that the acts of the federal authorities by the Ministry of Inside, working marriage registries is past their powers and held that every one marriages carried out by federal marriage registries or by their brokers are unlawful and invalid.
He consequently ordered the closure of all federal marriage registries opened by the ministry, together with that of Ikoyi marriage registry, with quick impact.
There was a authorized battle between some native authorities areas in Nigeria towards the federal authorities over who has the ability to function marriage registries, conduct marriages and situation marriage certificates.
The LGAs had insisted that their energy to register marriages was being taken over by the federal authorities by the Ministry of Inside.
This prompted the Eti-Osa Native Authorities Space of Lagos State to go to courtroom, the place it sought an order to take over the favored Ikoyi Marriage Registry being operated by the Ministry of Inside, on the grounds that the federal authorities, by the ministry, had no enterprise working a marriage registry.
