Lawmakers push for 31 new states amid N11.47tr debt by existing ones

Amid the burgeoning weight of the present confederacy on the 36 states in Nigeria, groaning under the heavy burden of debts and inability to perform their fiscal responsibilities, the House of Representatives Constitution Review Committee yesterday proposed 31 additional ones to push the states in the country to 67.

Muyiwa Adeyemi (Politics Editor) and Sodiq Omolaoye, Abuja