Section 12: Power to make foreign judgments unenforceable in Nigeria if no reciprocity

(1) If it appears to the Minister of Justice that the treatment in respect of recognition and enforcement accorded by the courts of any foreign country to judgments given in the superior courts of Nigeria is substantially less favourable than that accorded by the courts of Nigeria to judgments of the superior courts of that country, the Minister of Justice may by order apply this section to that country.
(2)
Except in so far as the Minister of Justice may by order under this section otherwise direct, no proceedings shall be entertained in any court in Nigeria for the recovery of any sum alleged to be payable under a judgment given in a court of a country to which this section applies.
[L.N. 139 of 1965.]
(3) The Minister of Justice may by a subsequent order vary or revoke any order previously made under this section.