The parliamentary system is the best way to stimulate development and resolve the perennial Nigerian crisis. This sums up the message of the recent 426-page book by Chris O. O. Biose, entitled Stop Zoning: Restructure Nigeria, published in December 2023. The book written by an erudite scholar and polemicist robustly illuminates the centrality ...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives today, Monday, July 22, said that the habit of consistently ignoring invitations from the parliament by ministers, heads of government agencies, and other government appointees was very embarrassing. This is as the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) and the Nigerian Maritime Administ...
•Peter Obi The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate for 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has given reason Nigeria needs a parliamentary system of government. According to him, with parliamentary system of government, Nigeria’s president would be able to interface with citizens at least once a month. Speaking at a recent lecture at Harvard Law Sc...
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has agreed to collaborate with a group of House of Representatives members pushing for a return to the parliamentary system. The 60 federal lawmakers, led by Minority Leader, Kingsley Chinda, had met with the ACF yesterday with the aim of garnering support for their proposed legislation transitioning from the...
The pan socio-political organisation, Middle Belt Forum (MBF), has said that the transition of the parliamentary system as proposed by 60 House of Representatives members should take off in 2027 and not 2031. According to the organisation, the speculation in some quarters that the transition should be done in 2031 when President Bola Tinubu...
The pan Yoruba socio-cultural and political organisation, Afenifere, has lauded the National Assembly for waking up to the reality of the need to cut costs of governance and restructure the political system in Nigeria. The organisation, in a press statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, was however quick to ad...
•Dantata Elder statesman Alhaji Aminu Dantata has thrown his weight behind the move to transition from a presidential system of government to a parliamentary system. Dantata, while speaking on the development today, said the parliamentary system is better than the presidential system of government because it is cheaper, reports Vanguard. The n...
•House of Representatives No fewer than 60 members of the House of Representatives have proposed bills to alter the 1999 constitution to return the country to parliamentary democracy as practised in the first republic. Addressing a news conference ahead of the presentation of the bills to the House, the spokesman of the Parliamentary Bill Spon...
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