It is another Friday. And I am thinking about the deformed state of our federalism. It is in such a state of disrepair that efforts are being made by the various components to depend less on…
The problem with this call has been the connotations it carries. Agitation for “true“ federalism or restructuring has refused to be jettisoned out of our political lexica, like poverty and…
Nigeria practices fiscal federalism with the federal, state and local governments as the tiers making up the FEDERATION. The Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) 2007 in sections 17, 20, 31,…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday called for a return to true Federalism where every component state uses its resources to develop their state.
The President, who was speaking after…
Federalism is suitable for Nigeria owing to her heterogeneity. But not a few federal nation-states in our modern times had disintegrated. Think about Yugoslavia, USSR, Czechoslovakia, and…