The Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Review of the 1999 Constitution has commenced its planned Constitution review exercise by calling for the submission of memoranda\/proposals for further alterations of the 1999 Constitution. The general public, executive and judicial arms of government, civil society organisations and other interest groups are invited to make their submissions on several highlighted matters, which include but are not limited to gender equality for women and girls, federal structure and power devolution, Nigeria Police and Nigerian security architecture, comprehensive judicial reforms, residency and indigene provisions, and electoral reforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Committee, which is chaired\nby the Deputy President of the Senate, Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege is comprised of 58 lawmakers\nrepresenting the thirty-six States of the Federation and the 6 geo-political\nzones. Other members of the Ad-hoc Committee include the 8 Principal Officers\nof the Senate. Since the inauguration of the 9th<\/sup> National\nAssembly, several Constitution amendment bills have been proposed by\nlawmakers and referred to the Ad-hoc Committee for further legislative action. It would\nbe recalled that the President of the Senate, Sen. Ahmad Lawan\nhad announced the membership of the Ad-hoc Committee on Review\nof the 1999 Constitution at the Senate\u2019s plenary session of Thursday, February 6, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Review of the 1999 Constitution has commenced its planned Constitution review exercise by calling for the submission of memoranda\/proposals for further alterations of the 1999 Constitution. The general public, executive and judicial arms of government, civil society organisations and other interest groups are invited to make their submissions on several […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-senate-set-for-constitution-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}