Nigerian Evidence Act 2011
Section 179 - Competence in criminal cases.
Subject to this Part, in criminal cases, the defendant, his wife or her husband, as the case may be, or any person jointly charged with such defendant and tried at the same time, and the wife or husband of the person so jointly charged, is competent to testify.
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