“The production of a Government’s programme Bill (legislation) is to take a culinary analogy, rather like the production of a cake by a firm of bakers - it all depends on the ingredients. The better the quality of the ingredients the better the product that should be the result”

“Legislative Drafting is like the weather easy to talk about but difficult to improve”

In acknowledgment of the above statements this thesis examines one of the greatest challenges in the field of legislative drafting, namely efforts at improvement of legislative drafting and consequently improving the quality of legislation, which has proved problematic for governments around the world including Nigeria. The efforts at improvement of legislative drafting in both civil and common law jurisdictions by legislative drafters (who are part of the “firm of bakers” of legislation) to find better “ingredients” for improvement of the quality of legislation has led to several initiatives and methods of legislative drafting.

Unfortunately, developing countries such as Nigeria are yet to develop their own legislative drafting system, it is acknowledged that in developing countries, there is “...a near complete lack of unified methodology in the drafting of legislation nationally” “especially in the third world and emerging democracies”.