One of the world’s premier parliamentary academic and research institutions, NILDS supports the sustenance of dynamic and effective legislature in Nigeria (at Federal, State and Local levels), and the ECOWAS sub-region
One of the world’s premier academic and research institutions, NILDS supports the sustenance of dynamic and effective Legislature in Nigeria (at Federal, State and Local level), and the ECOWAS sub-region
The National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) is an organ of the National Assembly established by an Act of Parliament. President Goodluck Jonathan signed into law the National Institute for Legislative Studies Act 2011 on March 2nd 2011 following the passage of the same by the Senate and the House of Representatives
In 2016, the Institute’s Governing Council approved the establishment of new department of Democratic Studies as well as a Department for Post Graduate Studies. On January 26th, 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari signed the National Institute for Legislative Studies (Amendment) Act, 2017. This expansion will enable the Institute to provide capacity development services to democratic Institutions and governance in Nigeria.
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To ensure the quality and effectiveness of laws, NILDS is actively involved in Legislative Drafting, Drafting of motions and Resolutions, Bill Analysis and Scrutiny, Support for committee and more
The institute recognizes that individuals respond to to different teaching and learning styles. Therefore, it adopts pedagogic style approaches to, which enable the participants to be actively involved in the learning process
Through its training programmes, NILDS enhances the capacities of legislators and staff to become more effective in carrying out their mandate
An important objective of NILDS is the dissemination of research output and designing/analysing policies that could be translated into legislation or imputed into the policymaking process
The Director General, National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, NILDS, Prof. Abubakar O Sulaiman received a delegation from the NTA Parliament. Led by the new General Manager, Abdullahi Garba […]
The Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Garki branch, Obioma Ezenwobodo, Esq, led some members of the branch to the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies. In his welcome […]
The National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, NILDS has named a past chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, as chairman of its specialised committee […]
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Through the development of its infrastructure the Institutes targets to be an internationally recognized research outfit that facilitates the development and sustenance of dynamic and effective legislature and democracy in not only Nigeria but the Sub region and the entire African continent.
The library has four major sections: Technical, Reader Services, ICT and Archives. We are here to assist you with your research and information needs.
The Legislative Archive preserves and makes available to the public the historical records of the National Assembly and the research records of the Institutue.
An important objective of NILDS is to promote democracy issues through training, advocacy, action-oriented research, publications, and documentation
The unit provides special services, such as Selective Dissemination of Information, (SDI), Current Awareness Services (CAS), Bibliographic services, etc.
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You currently have access to a subset of Twitter API v2 endpoints and limited v1.1 endpoints (e.g. media post, oauth) only. If you need access to this endpoint, you may need a different access level. You can learn more here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/portal/product
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At NILDS, we’re passionate about your feedback and enquiries and it shows in the level of services we provide. We’re more than happy to answer your questions and solve any problems or feedbacks you may have for us.
No.14/18 Danube Street, Maitama, Abuja
+234 818 997 8800
info@nils.gov.ng
Mon-Fri: 8:00am-4:00pm
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: Closed
