(4) If the office of Chief Judge of the Federal High Court is vacant or if the person holding the office is for any
reason unable to perform the functions of the office, then, until a person has been appointed to and has assumed
those functions of that office until the person holding the office has resumed those functions the President shall
appoint the most senior Judge of the Federal High Court to perform those functions''
(5) Except on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council, an appointment pursuant to the provisions of
subsection (3) of this section shall cease to have effect after the expiration of three months from the date of such
appointment and the President shall not re-appoint a person whose appointment has lapsed
251. (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contained in this Constitution and in addition to such other jurisdiction
as may be conferred upon it by an Act of the National Assembly, the Federal High Court shall have and exercise
jurisdiction to the exclusion of any other court in civil causes and matters (a) relating to the revenue of the Government of the Federation in which the said Government or any organ
thereof or a person suing or being sued on behalf of the said Government is a party;
(b) connected with or pertaining to the taxation of companies and other bodies established or carrying on
business in Nigeria and all other persons subject to Federal taxation;
(c) connected with or pertaining to customs and excise duties and export duties, including any claim by or
against the Nigeria Customs Service or any member or officer thereof, arising from the performance of any duty
imposed under any regulation relating to customs and excise duties and export duties;
(d) connected with or pertaining to banking, banks, other financial institutions, including any action between one
bank and another, any action by or against the Central Bank of Nigeria arising from banking, foreign exchange,
coinage, legal tender, bills of exchange, letters of credit, promissory notes and other fiscal measures:
Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to any dispute between an individual customer and his bank in
respect of transactions between the individual customer and the bank;
(e) arising from the operation of the Companies and Allied Matters Act or any other enactment replacing the Act
or regulating the operation of companies incorporated under the Companies and Allied Matters Act;
(f) any Federal enactment relating to copyright, patent, designs, trade marks and passing-off, industrial designs
and merchandise marks, business names, commercial and industrial monopolies, combines and trusts, standards
of goods and commodities and industrial standards;
(g) any admiralty jurisdiction, including shipping and navigation on the River Niger or River Benue and their
affluents and on such other inland waterway as may be designated by any enactment to be an international
waterway, all Federal ports, (including the constitution and powers of the ports authorities for Federal ports) and
carriage by sea;
(h) diplomatic, consular and trade representation;
(i) citizenship, naturalisation and aliens, deportation of persons who are not citizens of Nigeria, extradition,
immigration into and emigration from Nigeria, passports and visas;
(j) bankruptcy and insolvency;
(k) aviation and safety of aircraft.
(l) arms, ammunition and explosives;
(m) drugs and poisons;
(n) mines and minerals (including oil fields, oil mining, geological surveys and natural gas);
(o) weights and measures:
(p) the administration or the management and control of the Federal Government or any of its agencies;
(q) subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the operation and interpretation of this Constitution in so far as
it affects the Federal Government or any of its agencies;