{"id":11010,"date":"2016-11-14T12:37:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T12:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/?p=11010"},"modified":"2017-01-31T18:02:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T18:02:57","slug":"nigerian-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/nigerian-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Have Your Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government in Nigeria \u201cis detached from its people at every level of the federation\u201d, said Chidi Odinkalu, chair of the National Human Rights Commission, when interviewed for ARI\u2019s 2016 briefing note<a href=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/publications\/states-of-crisis-sub-national-government-in-nigeria\/\"> \u201cState(s) of crisis\u201d<\/a>. For most Nigerians, the state and unelected local government authorities are the most proximate form of government. Yet too little attention is paid to how these institutions operate and impact \u2013 or fail to impact \u2013 on the daily lives of citizens.<\/p>\n<p>In a new ARI blog series, \u201cNIGERIA: HAVE YOUR SAY\u201d, Nigerians from many different walks of life will reflect on aspects of sub-national government from Borno in the north-east to Lagos in the south-west; and from Sokoto in the north-west to Enugu in the south-east. There will be no overtly self-serving or politically partisan inclusions. In addition to\u00a0reading about the state of individual states, why not glance at Cheta Nwanze&#8217;s argument for the <a href=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/blog\/nigerias-state-origin-conundrum\/\">removal of Nigeria&#8217;s &#8220;state of origin&#8221; concept<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We hope this\u00a0platform that will contribute to a more nuanced understanding of local governance in Nigeria and to draw attention to suggestions for improvement.<\/p>\n<p>New submissions will be added regularly in the coming months. Interested in contributing? Then please get in touch with <a href=\"mailto:jamie@africaresearchinstitute.org\">Jamie Hitchen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"style-svg\" src=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ARI-Nigerian-States-Map-011.svg\" alt=\"States of Nigeria\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore our interactive map where Nigerians from many different walks of life reflect on aspects of sub-national government in their state<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2650,2514,2656,2412,2501,2655,2441,1453,2661,518,2541,2652,2654,2653,1211,526,1067,170,2474,2657,2658,2603,2659,216,2660,2526,2355,2651,2662],"class_list":["post-11010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-abia","tag-bauchi","tag-bayelsa","tag-benue","tag-borno","tag-civil-servant","tag-delta","tag-edo","tag-enugu","tag-governance","tag-governor","tag-gubernatorial","tag-iborri","tag-kaduna","tag-lagos","tag-local-government","tag-map","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerians","tag-ogun","tag-osun","tag-oyo","tag-plateau","tag-politics","tag-sokoto","tag-state-of-origin","tag-states","tag-sub-national-government","tag-zoning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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