{"id":6618,"date":"2013-07-16T19:25:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T19:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/senate-on-constitution-review\/"},"modified":"2013-07-16T19:25:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T19:25:07","slug":"senate-on-constitution-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/senate-on-constitution-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate on Constitution review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nigerian Senate on Tuesday began a clause-by-clause consideration of the reviewed 1999 constitution.<\/p>\n

The first casualty in the recommendation of the constitution review committee was the direct funding for Local Governments.<\/p>\n

The committee had recommended a shift for the present method of funding the local councils through a State-Local Government joint account.<\/p>\n

The Senate also rejected the six year tenure for President and Governors as well as the splitting of the position of Attorney General from that of Minister of Justice.<\/p>\n

It however endorsed eighteen years as the eligible age for any woman to be married.<\/p>\n

Former Zamfara State Governor, Sani Yerima vehemently protested the age limit because, according to him it is Anti-Islamic.<\/p>\n

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