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A Budget Speech given in the Western House of Assembly, Ibadan, on 22nd March, 1955.   CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK I rise to move the Second reading of

Our federating units will keep 50% of all the revenue that they generate, put a further 20% into a central pot called the Excess Federation Account to which everyone can have access as the need arises, 10% will go into a geo-political zone account and the remaining 20% will go to into the Federation Account used to run the federal government.

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Enahoro’s Motion came at a critical time for women. Up to that year, they only occupied seats in local government councils.

Senior Lawyer, Ozekhome Disagrees With Ex-President Obasanjo Over ‘Oil Belongs To Nigeria, Not Niger Delta’ Statement A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Mike Ozekhome, has disagreed with former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his statement that Niger Delta cannot lay claim to the crude oil found in the region. Obasanjo had in a six-page letter to…

The Niger Delta region has been repressed, suppressed, marginalized and neglected.

Obasanjo had in a six-page letter to Niger Delta elder, Chief Edwin Clark noted that the constitution did not confer ownership of oil and other mineral resources on any of the then regions.

A return to the 12-state structure of 1967 is the best option open to Nigeria at this time. Introduction Since

Who’s the North’s Equivalent of Kanu and Igboho? Igboho and Kanu Sun Jul 25 2021 In 1950, at a constitutional conference to review the Richards Constitution in Ibadan, northern delegates threatened to secede from Nigeria. The North opposed the composition of the proposed central legislature, as declared by the Emirs of Katsina and Zaria, and insisted on more seats at the parliament. It was obliged. About two years later, the North again ventured to break away from Nigeria when their colleag...

The nation will continue to wobble until the iniquities in the system are eliminated, writes Anya O. Anya Nigerian Unity and Nation Building, under normal circumstances, would have been considered an easy task to undertake. However, given that the circumstances in our times it can no longer be considered normal in the light of the level of violence, criminality and divisiveness which is now our daily experience, the undertaking becomes a challenge and a dilemma. There was a time that some of ou...