{"id":927,"date":"2023-03-17T18:18:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T18:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=927"},"modified":"2023-03-17T18:18:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T18:18:59","slug":"buhari-signs-amended-constitution-to-allow-states-generate-transmit-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/buhari-signs-amended-constitution-to-allow-states-generate-transmit-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Signs Amended Constitution To Allow States Generate, Transmit Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has signed into law the constitutional amendment allowing states in the country to licence, generate, transmit, and distribute electricity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This was made known in a tweet by the presidential media spokesperson, Tolu Ogunlesi, on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He tweeted, \u201c President #MBuhari has signed 16 Constitution Amendment Bills into Law. By this signing, State Houses of Assembly &amp; Judiciaries now have constitutionally guaranteed financial independence, while Railways have moved from Exclusive Legislative List to the Concurrent List.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAnother landmark change: By virtue of the Presidential Assent, Nigerian States can NOW generate, transmit and distribute electricity in areas covered by the national grid. Wasn&#8217;t allowed pre-amendment. This is genuine, realistic restructuring \u2014 through the Constitution.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has signed into law the constitutional amendment allowing states in the country to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}