Nigeria: Restructure or reconfigure (2), By Afe Babalola
RECONFIGURING, according to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, is to significantly rearrange (something) into an altered form, figure, shape, or layout. In political terms, reconfiguration is to alter the territorial configuration of a state, its identity, or formally breaking up or partitioning the geographical entity. Reconfiguration can be the end result of unsuccessful restructuring, or […]
We have 54 more years to go, says APC; as Oyegun cautions over restructuring
Former National Chairman of ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, John Odigie-Oyegun, has asked the federal government to take immediate steps to address the twin issues of restructuring and secession, saying if allowed to fester, more Nigerians could come up with fresh demands.
STATE OF THE NATION: Constitution review, complete waste of time — Makinde
What is constitution review? A document has been on their table since 2015, what have they done with it? Yes, during the life of each National Assembly session, they vote money for the review of the constitution and the National Assembly has to spend the money. That is the exercise going on in there. If anything comes out of it, let us talk again.
Our kind of federalism is biggest challenge of governance, says Gov Makinde
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has said one of the biggest challenges of governance is the type of federalism the country operates. Governor Makinde said this in an interview with Vanguard, while explaining the challenges his administration was facing. He said in the two years he had been in office, they should be celebrating […]
Diaspora Igbo insists on restructuring, fiscal federation
…condemns govt position on shouting youths on site By Chioma Gabriel Diaspora Igbo group, the Igbo World Assembly, IWA, is still insisting on the need to restructure Nigeria to ensure true federalism as it was in the 1963 constitution based on regions or zones respectively. This is even as the group has condemned in the […]
Issues iIn Restructuring (2): Who is afraid of restructuring?
By Sola Ebiseni LAST week, we started discussions on issues which make restructuring the sine qua non for peaceful coexistence and continuity of Nigeria as a corporate entityof the Nigerian polity. Let me pause here to join millions of other Nigerians to commiserate with the family of Ahmed Gulak, a learned gentleman and suave politician, […]
