Restructuring In Nigeria: Why? How? When?
Effort and energies need to be devoted to generating an elite, if not a national, consensus on the necessity of restructuring, defined as the redistribution of power and resources from the federal to the state governments... The embedded imbalance, inequities and perceived injustices in the current federal system in Nigeria have to be addressed as soon as possible to enable Nigeria and Nigerians to acquire the requisite stability and peaceful coexistence amenable to accelerated, sustainable socioeconomic development
Introduction
Federalism is the principle, some would say a conceptual or institutional framework, which defines “the division of authority among national and sub-national governments” in a given country (Rozell and Wilcox 2019). Such a country is referred to as a...
