{"id":25824,"date":"2020-06-04T14:43:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T14:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=25824"},"modified":"2020-06-04T14:43:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T14:43:56","slug":"senate-to-constitute-review-committee-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-to-constitute-review-committee-soon","title":{"rendered":"Senate to constitute review committee soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman, Constitution Review Committee, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege says, moves towards the alteration of some provisions of the 1999 constitution, which would commence soon.<\/p>\n<p>Omo-Agege who made the declaration Wednesday in his capacity as the Chairman, Senate Committee on Constitution Review, said the committee is already steaming for the onerous task as many bills to that effect have been forwarded to it aside memoranda being received from different interest groups in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on one of the memoranda personally delivered to him by national officers of the League of Women Voters of Nigeria, Omo-Agege assured women that their interest would be protected but not to the detriment of constitutional provisions against discrimination of whatever form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me appreciate the League of Women Voters of Nigeria for this memorandum. It is very timely and apt because the Constitution Review committee is already steaming for action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything about women is very important to us because the day women decide to speak with one voice, men will definitely be in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know part of what would be in the proposals just submitted will be about the increase in the proportion of women participation in governance in line with the Beijing protocol but that would be looked into in a way that would not infract with provisions of the constitution as regards gender discrimination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman, Constitution Review Committee, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege says, moves towards the alteration of some provisions of the 1999 constitution, which would commence soon. Omo-Agege who made the declaration Wednesday in his capacity as the Chairman, Senate Committee on Constitution Review, said the committee is already steaming for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":17930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[943,53],"class_list":["post-25824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-ovie-omo-agege","tag-senate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Senate to constitute review committee soon - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman, Constitution Review Committee, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege says, moves towards the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-to-constitute-review-committee-soon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senate to constitute review committee soon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman, Constitution Review Committee, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege says, moves towards the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-to-constitute-review-committee-soon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-04T14:43:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/11\/Nigerian-Senate.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-to-constitute-review-committee-soon#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-to-constitute-review-committee-soon\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Senate to constitute review committee soon\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-04T14:43:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-to-constitute-review-committee-soon\"},\"wordCount\":234,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-to-constitute-review-committee-soon#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/11\/Nigerian-Senate.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Ovie Omo-Agege\",\"senate\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-to-constitute-review-committee-soon#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-to-constitute-review-committee-soon\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/senate-to-constitute-review-committee-soon\",\"name\":\"Senate to constitute review committee soon - 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