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Restructuring and the 1963 Constitution, By Simon Kolawole

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Funny how we hardly reach any cross-ethnic consensus in this country, but the campaign for a return to the 1963 Constitution — increasingly becoming the backbone of the “restructuring” agenda — seems popular in southern Nigeria and Benue state. The core argument is that we need to return to regionalism: every region should control its […]

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Substitute 1999 constitution with 1963 constitution ―Afe Babalola tells NASS

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Afe Babalola University founder and legal luminary, Chief Afe Babalola SAN, has urged the National Assembly to find ways of reawakening and reenacting the 1963 Constitution, as against the 1999 Constitution being contemplated for amendment. In a statement he personally signed in Ado Ekiti, he said the 1999 constitution would not solve Nigeria’s problems. “Alternatively, […]

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