Nigeria

Declaration:

“(A) The minimum age at which Nigeria permits voluntary recruitment into her National Armed Forces is eighteen years of age;
(B) The Federal Republic of Nigeria has established safeguards to ensure that such recruitment is not forced or coerced, including a requirement in Part III, Section 34(1) of the Child’s Rights Act, 2003, which stipulates that no child shall be recruited into any of the branches of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria;
(C) Part III, Section 34(2) of the Child’s Rights Act, 2003 states that the Government or any other relevant agency or body shall ensure that no child is directly involved in any military operation or hostilities;
(D) Part XXIV 277 of the Child’s Rights Act, 2003 states that a child is a person under the age of eighteen years.”

2 December 2019

Declaration under article 287:

“In accordance with Article 287, paragraph 1 of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria hereby declares that it accepts the jurisdiction of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea for the settlement of disputes between the Swiss Confederation and the Federal Republic of Nigeria concerning the M/T ‘San Padre Pio’.”

Declarations:

1. With regard to article 5, paragraph 3, the Federal Republic of Nigeria will not apply the criteria of publication under article 5, paragraph 1 (c).
2. With regard to article 6, paragraph 2, the Federal Republic of Nigeria will protect broadcasts only if the headquarters of the broadcasting organization is situated in another Contracting State and if the broadcast is transmitted from a transmitter situated in the same Contracting State.
3. With regard to article 16, paragraph 1 (a):
i) The provisions of article 12 will not be applied in case of communication to the public of phonograms (a) at any premises where persons reside or sleep, as part of the amenities provided exclusively or mainly for residents or inmates therein unless a special charge is made for admission to the part of the premises where the phonogram is to be heard or (b) as part of the activities of, or for the benefit of a club, society or other organization which is not established or conducted for profit and whose main objects are charitable or are otherwise concerned with the advancement of religion, education or social welfare, unless a charge is made for admission to the part of the premises where the phonogram is to be heard and any of the proceeds of the charge are applied otherwise than for the purpose of the organization;
ii) The provisions of article 12 will not apply as regards phonograms the producer of which is not a national of another Contracting State; and
iii) As regards phonograms the producer of which is a national of another Contracting State, the Federal Republic of Nigeria will limit the protection provided for in article 12 to the extent to which, and to the term for which, that Contracting State grants protection to phonograms first fixed by nationals of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

"In accordance with paragraph 3 of article I of the Conven- tion, the Federal Military Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria declares that it will apply the Convention on the basis of reciprocity to the recognition and enforcement of awards made only in the territory of a State party to this Convention and to differences arising out of legal relationships, whether contractual or not, which are considered as commercial under the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria."