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The document highlights how this flurry of legislative activity reflects not only an educational push but also a growing trend toward federal restructuring.

More than half of the laws signed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu since assuming office in 2023 are focused on establishing new universities and other tertiary institutions, a new policy report has found.

The report, titled “Policy in Practice: An Engagement Report on Laws Assented to by President Tinubu (2023–2025),” was launched on Thursday, June 19, in Abuja by Legis360, in collaboration with the Peering Advocacy and Advancement Centre in Africa (PAACA).

It reveals that out of over 42 laws enacted so far, the majority are related to expanding federal education infrastructure, signaling a key policy direction of the current administration.

“The key finding is that education is one of the major policy directions for the Tinubu administration,” said Samuel Folorunsho, Executive Director of Legis360, while presenting the report.


“If it has passed over 40 laws, and over 50% of those laws are establishing new federal universities and polytechnics, then it says a lot.”

The document highlights how this flurry of legislative activity reflects not only an educational push but also a growing trend toward federal restructuring.

Notable among the laws cited are the Electricity Act 2023 and the proposed State Judicial Councils Act, both of which are described as pivotal to empowering sub-national governments and deepening decentralisation.

“What stands out is that this administration is doing things through the Assembly, not just through executive orders.

“It’s a legislative-first strategy aimed at institutionalising reforms and reinforcing Nigeria’s federal structure,” Folorunsho explained.

In addition to analysing the thematic focus of the assented bills, the report also flags ongoing concerns. These include persistent gaps in the implementation of new laws due to inadequate budgetary support, continued executive dominance over legislative agenda-setting, and insufficient mechanisms for monitoring legislative impacts.

According to the report, there is also a growing trend toward regional legislation. Proposals to create development commissions across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones, for example, are seen as a response to long-standing demands for equitable development and regional empowerment.

The report makes several recommendations: enhanced collaboration between the Presidency and the National Assembly, provision of technical and financial support to state governments, and ensuring all new legislation incorporates provisions for gender, youth, and disability inclusion.

Source: https://www.pulse.ng/articles/news/report-over-50percent-of-tinubus-assented-bills-focus-on-education-2025061915031832613

Report: https://legis360.org/Policy-in-Practice.pdf

Ok nah ,make him sign the bill wey 1$ go be equal to 1#.... Seriously people are complaining and the government needs to do something about the suffering..

Obi and his people will come and start shouting Tinubu should invest in education, same man who didn't start and complete a single school throughout his tenure

Anyone doubting Tinubu's committment to regional autonomy , which we need badly yet no other President had attempted to deliver, should read the article thoroughly.

This is a President worth supporting by Nigerians who are progressive and hardworking with no interest in paraditism or covetous commandeering of the land and asset of others ,whether through violence or subterfuge, that does not belong to them.

Those who love themselves, their land and are committed to remaining in their region ,to make it the domain of their dreams, will support the freedom Tinubu is giving them to better control the pace and intensity of their own socio-economic progress unimpeded by 'one Nigeria' nuisance.

Once "heavily armed" Forest guards and State/regional policing is in place then the SW is good to go. "Equitable development" mentioned directly alongside "regional empowerment" are the key concepts to take from the article.

The document highlights how this flurry of legislative activity reflects not only an educational push but also a growing trend toward federal restructuring.

Notable among the laws cited are the Electricity Act 2023 and the proposed State Judicial Councils Act, both of which are described as pivotal to empowering sub-national governments and deepening decentralisation.

“What stands out is that this administration is doing things through the Assembly, not just through executive orders.

“It’s a legislative-first strategy aimed at institutionalising reforms and reinforcing Nigeria’s federal structure,” Folorunsho explained.

According to the report, there is also a growing trend toward regional legislation. Proposals to create development commissions across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones, for example, are seen as a response to long-standing demands for equitable development and regional empowerment.

Ttalk:
Obi and his people will come and started shouting Tinubu should invest in education, same man who didn't start and complete a single school throughout his tenure

At least we can all now see Obidient are generally an ignorant lot who spend more time hating and lying, plus demarketing others with fake news, than on reading and researching.

We can all now see Tinubu's committed focus on education and decentralisation of power given the bills he has signed into law.

God bless PBAT and give him great health to complete two terms after which every region should have the legislatively defined freedom, empowering policies and socio-economic independence to go and swim or sink on their own.

How will the federal government fund these new federal universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education it is establishing up and down? Their proliferation will certainly strain the federal finances as much as it will drastically reduce quality of higher education.

Ezewuzie01:
How will the federal government fund these new federal universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education it is establishing up and down? Their proliferation will certainly strain the federal finances as much as it will drastically reduce quality of higher education.

Sebi na your Obi say make the government invest in education, go and ask him where the government would raise money to fund education

Akinboboz:
Ok nah ,make him sign the bill wey 1$ go be equal to 1#.... Seriously people are complaining and the government needs to do something about the suffering..

This one will be hard anyway. Citizens just need bills that will make it easy for everyone

WizardOfNG:
Once "heavily armed" Forest guards and State/regional policing is in place then the SW is good to go. "Equitable development" mentioned directly alongside "regional empowerment" are the key concepts to take from the article.

Resource control nko? Abi you still wan dey chop oil money? 😡😠

paymentvoucher:
This one will be hard anyway. Citizens just need bills that will make it easy for everyone

That poster is misguided anyway. It is sad that most grown Nigerians, who have supposedly finished SSS or attended Uni, still do not understand that the value of a currency is it purchasing power which is predicated on the strength of the economy of the nation the currency belongs to.

Today $1 USD is around 1547 naira. The Government can legally round down a few decimal place to make it $1 USD equal 1.54 Naira. That would look good for those who don't understand that currency is a store of value.

While the dollars value has not changed, because the strength of the economy of the USA that keeps dollars a strong currency has not changed, the value of Naira too has not changed, even with the redomination, because our economy has not suddenly grown by over 1000% !!!

Denomination of a currency is it's face value. Purchasing power parity, is its real value. Meaning rounding down of decimal places to make 1547 Naira 1.54 Naira makes no difference to the value of the Naira. What has happened is that what 1547 Naira bought before is what 1.54 naira will now buy.

The 1.54 Naira to $1 USD is for optics alone because you woul still need a total of 1547 Naira to buy what $1 USD can buy.

It is always the purchasing power of a currency, determined by the strength of the economy that currency represents, that matters. Not its size.


If $1 USD is ever equal 1 Naira organically, without redenomination or subsidy support for the Naira, then that would mean we have done tremendously well creating a Nigerian economy at parity with that of the USA meaning 1 Naira can , on is own merited strength, buy what $1 USD can anywhere in the world.

If a Camry is $6,000 in Miami then I must be able to it with 6,000 Naira also if both currency are of equal value at 1 to 1 denomination.

Commonsense tell us we are very far from the Camry example I use above. Especially since most Nigerians do not know, to begin with, that the old exchange rate under GEJ, Buhari etal were never true reflection of the actual value of Naira.