Tenure of office and pension rights of judicial officers
Section 291(3) · 1999 Constitution (2004 edition)
What Constitution says
(3) Any person who has held office as a judicial officer - (a) for a period of not less than fifteen years shall, if he retires at or after the age of sixty- five years in the case of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, a Justice of the Supreme Court, the President of the court of Appeal or a Justice of the Court of Appeal or at or after the age of sixty years in any other case, be entitled to pension for life at a rate equivalent to his last annual salary and all his allowances in addition to any other retirement benefits to which he may be entitled; (b) for a period of less than fifteen years shall, if he retires at or after the age of sixty-five years or sixty years, as the case may be, be entitled to pension for life at a rate as in paragraph (a) of this subsection pro rata the number of years he served as a judicial officer in relation to the period of fifteen years, and all his allowances in addition to other retirement benefits to which he may be entitled under his terms and conditions of service; and (c) in any case, shall be entitled to such pension and other retirement benefits as may be regulated by an Act o the National Assembly or by a Law of a House of Assembly of a State.
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 120. Original document
Release: draft-c8d50d87fae9. Source scope, review and corrections