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CIVIL WAR: ‘Nigeria more divided now than in 1967’
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•No basis for Nigeria’s unity – Nnamdi Kanu
By Clifford Ndujihe, Political Editor
YEESTERDAY, January 15, marked exactly 51 years of the end of the 30-month Nigerian-Biafran Civil War that claimed an estimated three million lives on both sides.
After the war, the Nigerian military regime of General Yakubu Gowon declared that there was no victor, no vanquished. He unfurled a three-pronged Programme of reconstruction, rehabilitation and reconciliation to heal the wounds of the war and reintegrate the then Eastern Region, especially the Igbo, into Nigeria.
Fifty decades and a year after it is arguable if progress has been made on this score.
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ONGOING efforts to amend the 1999 Constitution fall short of the collective demands by a preponderance of stakeholders in the Nigerian project for restructuring. KUNLE ODEREMI writes on the underlining issues in restructuring.
At Independence on October 1, 1960, four constitutions were in operation in Nigeria. While there was the 1960 Independence Constitution, each of the three regions: East, West and North had their separate constitutions. Each region also had their individual representatives abroad in line with coordinate powers. The Independence Constitution had 52 items under the exclusive legislative list: 32 under concurrent. There was no residual power for local government because the federating units were federal government and the regions. Local governments have since been made third federating tier with key functions skewed in favour of the centre. The Federal Government exercises powers over 98 items, with 68 of them on the Exclusive List in the 1999 Constitutio