States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja

Section 3(6) · 1999 Constitution (2004 edition)

What Constitution says

(6) There shall be 768 Local Government Areas in Nigeria as shown in the second column of Part I of the First Schedule to this Constitution and six area councils as shown in Part II of that Schedule.

This is the 1999 Constitution as published in 2004. Later amendments aren't included yet, so a section may have changed since.

Original source

Official Gazette · CFRN 1999 official PDF · printed page 17. Original document

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