More states in Nigeria?
The pressure to create new states in Nigeria is still strong. Do your students know what is behind the push to add states to the Nigerian federation? What results would they predict?
No State Creation, No Constitution Amendment, Say Senators, RepsTwelve members of the National Assembly Constitution Review Committee... urged the Assembly to create new states or forget about the entire review exercise.
Assembled under the aegis of Forum of the National Assembly for the Actualisation of State Creation, with membership drawn from the Senate and the House of Representatives, the lawmakers reiterated that the task of demanding for state creation was given to them by their constituents back home...
Ekweremadu Seeks Consensus on New States
Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has tasked movements for state creation to dialogue with the National Assembly with a view to agreeing on the number of states that should be created...
The movements now operate on a platform that is being coordinated by a member of the Constitution Review Committee, Senator Suleiman Nazif (AC, Bauchi North).Ekweremadu said... "It is obvious that the people want more states and since we are representing the people, we will serve them; we have no alternative. Let there be no rancour in your pursuit of state creation; do not overheat the polity, be decorous, be patriotic."...
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