{"id":77524,"date":"2025-10-26T22:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77524"},"modified":"2025-10-27T01:28:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:28:44","slug":"national-assembly-greenlights-creation-of-six-new-states-shaking-up-nigerias-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/26\/national-assembly-greenlights-creation-of-six-new-states-shaking-up-nigerias-map\/","title":{"rendered":"National Assembly Greenlights Creation of Six New States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Salihu Mohammed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria is poised for a significant geopolitical restructuring as the National Assembly&#8217;s joint committee on Constitutional Review has unanimously approved the creation of six new states. This pivotal decision, which came after reviewing a staggering 55 separate requests from across the country, sets the stage for Nigeria&#8217;s map to expand from 36 to 42 states.<\/p>\n<p>The consensus was reached during a decisive two-day retreat held in Lagos, co-chaired by Deputy Senate President Senator Barau Jibrin and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu.<\/p>\n<p>The core mandate of the committee was to ensure geopolitical balance. Consequently, the recommendation provides for the creation of one new state in each of Nigeria&#8217;s six geopolitical zones:<\/p>\n<p>North West<\/p>\n<p>North East<\/p>\n<p>North Central<\/p>\n<p>South West<\/p>\n<p>South East<\/p>\n<p>South South<\/p>\n<p>This move, if it successfully navigates the complex constitutional process, will eliminate the current disparity, giving every region at least six states.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the comprehensive nature of the review, Senator Barau Jibrin noted that the decision was the culmination of years of rigorous work. &#8220;We have been in this process for the past two years, engaging our constituents, critical stakeholders, institutions, civil society organisations and interest groups&#8230; harvesting and synthesising views and perspectives,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the state creation proposal, the committee also considered 69 bills, two boundary adjustment proposals, and 278 requests for new local government areas during the retreat.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal for state creation now moves to the full chambers of the National Assembly for deliberation and possible constitutional amendment, marking the first major hurdle in a process that requires approval by two-thirds of the National Assembly and two-thirds of the State Houses of Assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Salihu Mohammed &nbsp; Nigeria is poised for a significant geopolitical restructuring as the National Assembly&#8217;s joint committee on Constitutional Review has unanimously approved the creation of six new states. This pivotal decision, which came after reviewing a staggering 55 separate requests from across the country, sets the stage for Nigeria&#8217;s map to expand from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77524","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77536,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77524\/revisions\/77536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}