{"id":12742,"date":"2023-03-17T18:17:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T18:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12742"},"modified":"2023-03-17T18:17:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T18:17:43","slug":"buhari-signs-amended-constitution-to-allow-states-generate-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12742","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Signs Amended Constitution To Allow States Generate, Transmit Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The President Muhammadu Buhari 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 Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law the constitutional amendment allowing states in the country to licence, generate, transmit, and distribute electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6662,6663,280],"class_list":["post-12742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-amended-constitution","tag-electricity","tag-muhammadu-buharis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12745,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12742\/revisions\/12745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}