{"id":61290,"date":"2025-02-15T11:11:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T11:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61290"},"modified":"2025-02-15T11:14:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T11:14:22","slug":"chriced-pushes-for-abujas-statehood-cites-marginalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/15\/chriced-pushes-for-abujas-statehood-cites-marginalization\/","title":{"rendered":"CHRICED Pushes for Abuja\u2019s Statehood, Cites Marginalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Centre for Human Rights &amp; Civic Education (CHRICED), has urged the National Assembly to grant full statehood to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, making it Nigeria\u2019s 37th state.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference in Abuja, CHRICED\u2019s Executive Director, Ibrahim Zikirullahi, decried the political and economic marginalization of the FCT\u2019s original inhabitants, citing land dispossession and lack of representation.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that Abuja\u2019s current status denies its residents the rights enjoyed by other states.<\/p>\n<p>The group called for constitutional amendments to address these issues and strengthen Nigeria\u2019s federal structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo\u00a0 The Centre for Human Rights &amp; Civic Education (CHRICED), has urged the National Assembly to grant full statehood to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, making it Nigeria\u2019s 37th state. At a press conference in Abuja, CHRICED\u2019s Executive Director, Ibrahim Zikirullahi, decried the political and economic marginalization of the FCT\u2019s original inhabitants, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61292,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61290\/revisions\/61292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}