The inclusion of fundamental human rights provisions in the Nigerian constitution was first formally entrenched in the

Fundamental human rights were first formally and explicitly entrenched in the Nigerian Independence Constitution of 1960, which included a Chapter on fundamental rights drawing from the European Convention on Human Rights. Earlier constitutions such as those of 1946 and 1951 did not contain such explicit and justiciable provisions for the protection of individual rights. This inclusion reflected the global post-World War II emphasis on human rights in new constitutions.