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What irony? What is happening in Kogi State
Tweet Section 80 (3) states as follows: No moneys shall be withdrawn from any public fund of the Federation, other than the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation, unless the issue of those moneys has been authorised by an Act of the National Assembly. * No moneys shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund or any other public fund of the Federation, except in the manner prescribed by the National Assembly The State House of Assembly has the same power and authority over all the finances of the State. How come the State House of Assembly does not have
The sorry state of state legislatures in Nigeria
Tweet Thanks to my friend, Auwal Musa also known as Rafsanjani, I have been involved with the training of state legislators and community development bodies on how to interact and work with ach other. The legislature is weak and needs help. The three states that we have interacted with present us with a picture of people who really are at loss as what their role should be I now know why it is so easy for 6 out of 24 members of the Plateau State House of Assembly to impeach their state governor; I also now know why corruption has
Law making Process and oversight unctions of Nigeria National Assembly
Tweet The major distinguishing feature of democracy that sets it apart form other systems of governance is the presence of a legislature. It is not merely a form of decoration for the system which colonial authorities had in Nigeria. The legislature, in a democracy, exists as an independent institution with its unique life and process, which deepen democracy and ultimately strengthen the polity. It arose as we shall see in the following pages from deep dissatisfaction with monarchy, a one man rule in which the King presumes to be God or answers to God only. The legislature emerged as a
NIGERIA’S LEGISLATURE: History and Challenges
Tweet Since British overlords awarded independence to Nigeria in 1960, the legislature has hardly featured as a stable national institution. Though, there have been about five legislative Houses: 1960 € 1964, 1964- -1966, 1979 € 1983, 1983; 1991 € 1993 (under military rule) and now 1999 € 2002, the institution has remained the most unknown, misunderstood and neglected of all the institutions of democratic governance. Its history actually symbolises the story of democracy in Nigeria. The immediate post independence era had one full session and after a much disputed election and accompanying violence, the military took over in 1966. The
