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Nigerias Senate on Tuesday voted to reject changes to the constitution to allow citizens living abroad to vote in national elections, while a provision to allocate special seats for women to increase their political representation failed to pass.

Members of the National Assembly, yesterday, moved an inch closer to the amendment of the 1999 Constitution by voting on the 68 bills proposed to correct inherent defects in the Constitution.

Only 29 senators out of the 92 present supported the provision to allow Nigerians abroad to vote in national polls.Nigeria's Senate has voted to rejec

Nigeria's Senate on Tuesday voted to reject changes to the constitution to allow citizens living abroad to vote in national elections, while a provision to allocate special seats for women to increase their political representation failed to pass. Voters in Africa's most populous nation will go to the polls to elect a new president and parliament in February 2023. Hopes that Nigeria's diaspora would take part were dashed when only 29 senators out of the 92 present supported the pr...

Nigeria's Senate on Tuesday voted to reject changes to the constitution to allow citizens living abroad to vote in national elections, while a provision to allocate special seats for women to increase their political representation failed to pass. Voters in Africa's most populous nation will go to the polls to elect a new president and…

The Senate, on Tuesday, passed a bill to empower the National Assembly and State Assemblies to summon the President and State Governors to answer

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's Senate on Tuesday voted to reject changes to the constitution to allow citizens living abroad to vote in national election...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria's Senate on Tuesday voted to reject changes to the constitution to allow citizens living abroad to vote in national election...

Out of a total of 93 registered Senators, 77 voted in favour of the bill to summon the president and governors, 13 against and one lawmaker abstained.

The Senate passed a bill to empower the National Assembly and State Assemblies to summon the President and State Governors on security matters