instruments decisions and other subsidiary instruments. Where necessary, the provisions of Article 38 of the statute of the International Court of Justice, the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and other International Human Rights Instruments to which a member State of ECOWAS is a party. Accordingly, this Application, in our view calls for several remarks, 1. The request addressed to the Court refers, in several instances, to the Domestic laws of Nigeria (The 1999 Constitution, the Criminal Code Law among others) (see especially pages 1, 2, 4 etc. of the Application. It is appropriate to recall that the rules applied by this Court are international rules binding on States which have subscribed to those rules and not the domestic norms of States. This Court has reiterated this established principles of International law in various cases. In its judgment of 24th April 2015 (unreported) in the case of Bodjona Vs. Republic of Togo at P. 37, the Court stated as follows; ″Similarly, the Court shall note as irrelevant all the references made to domestic law of Togo by the Parties in their written pleadings. The Constitution of Togo in particular was frequently cited by the two parties. Now the Court has no powers to access the 12