Section 10: Authority to administer oaths.

(1) It shall be lawful for the Chief Justice of Nigeria, a Justice of the Supreme Court, the President and Justices of the Court of Appeal and any judge of the Federal High Court, a notary public, and any commissioner for oaths, to administer any lawful oath or to take any lawful affirmation or affidavit which may be required to be taken or made for the purpose of complying with the requirements of any law for the time being in force throughout Nigeria or elsewhere, except where such procedure is expressly or by necessary implication manifestly excluded by the terms of such law as aforesaid and the presumption shall be against any such exclusion.
(2) It shall be lawful for any of the persons mentioned in subsection (1) of this section to take any declaration made in the form prescribed in the First Schedule to this Act, in cases where an oath is or has been abolished by any enactment.
[First Schedule]