A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba has advocated for the return to regional government rather than the creation of new states. He noted that state creation would increase the cost of governance as new offices would be formed, despite the harsh economic realities facing the nation’s populace. Agbakoba, a former President of the Nigeria Bar Association, expressed the …

President Bola Tinubu will, on Friday, receive a draft bill seeking a return to a regional system of government for Nigeria. The proposed legislation authored by a chieftain of the Yoruba socio-cultural association, Afenifere, Mr. Akin Fapohunda, and titled: “A Bill for an Act to substitute the annexure to Decree 24 of 1999 with New Governance Model for the Federal …