NAME: Benjamin Funke Angel
MATRIC NUMBER: 19/Law01/049
COURSE: Legal Method
COURSE CODE: law 102
A secondary source is not the law. It's a commentary on the law. A secondary source can be used for three different purposes it might educate you about the law, it might direct you to the primary law, or it might serve as persuasive authority. Secondary sources are also scholarly materials written by legal experts. They provide a good overview of the law and the text or footnotes can refer to relevant legislation or case law. Few sources do all three jobs well. The important classes of legal secondary sources include: treatises, periodical articles, legal encyclopedias, ALR Annotations, Restatements, and Looseleaf services.
The secondary sources of Nigerian law are the indirect ways through which we get our law. Save for law reports, secondary sources of Nigerian law are of persuasive authority in the law courts. Law reports are only authoritative due to the fact that they serve as the vehicle through which judicial precedent is carried. Secondary sources of law are only made use of whenever there are no primary sources of law to fall back on.
Examples of secondary sources of the Nigerian law are:
1. Law Reports
2. Text Books and Treatises
3. Periodicals, Journals, and Legal Digests
4. Casebooks
5. Legal Dictionaries
6. Newspapers
 
1.LAW REPORTS
 
Law reports are series of books that contain judicial opinions from a selection of case law decided  by courts . When a particular judicial opinion is referenced, the law report series in which the opinion is printed will determine the case citation formatting


2. Text Books and Treaties
 
A textbook is a comprehensive compilation of content in a branch of study. Textbooks are produced to meet the needs of educators.


3. PREODICALS
 
Legal periodical articles are in-depth discussions of narrow areas of the law and legal issues. Articles in academic journals tend to revolve around very theoretical and cutting-edge legal issues.

4. CASEBOOK’S
 
A casebook is a type of textbook used primarily by students in law schools. 

5.LEGAL DICTIONARIES
 
A legal dictionary contains the definitions of legal terms taken from a variety of 6. Newspaper
 
	6.	Newspaper.                                                                 A newspaper is a printed publication (usually issued daily or weekly) consisting of folded unstapled sheets and containing news, articles, advertisements, and correspondence