The growing calls for restructuring in Nigeria, recent events, and the reactions they have spawned, have shown the Nigerian Constitution as an increasingly unworkable document. As a result, the National Assembly has commenced the process to amend the Constitution, and on Wednesday 26 July, and Thursday 27 July, the Senate and the House of Representatives voted on some of the proposed changes.

Thirty-three laws in the Constitution came up for review, and both houses of parliament agreed on most of them, but disagreed on nine key areas – a fixed number of slots for women ministers; an indigene of the FCT being appointed to a ministerial position; the change of names of some local government areas; Nigerian women having a right to chose their state of origin after marriage; the fate of the National Youth Service Corps; the National Security Agencies Act; the National Complaints Commission; the Land Use Act; and the transfer of local council elections to the purview of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

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