{"id":175308,"date":"2024-06-26T08:13:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T06:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-six-year-single-term-for-president-governors\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T08:13:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T06:13:12","slug":"nigeria-six-year-single-term-for-president-governors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-six-year-single-term-for-president-governors\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Six-Year Single Term for President, Governors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">Recently, a coalition of some dozen members of the House of Representatives, under the umbrella of &#8216;Reform Minded Lawmakers,&#8217; informed the country that they were sponsoring a constitutional amendment bill for a single six-year term for the president and governors. This, they argued, would help in curbing government&#8217;s spending, enhancing governance efficiency and promoting national stability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">Indeed, the spokesman for the coalition, Rep Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, told a news conference in Abuja that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406260129.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, a coalition of some dozen members of the House of Representatives, under the umbrella of &#8216;Reform Minded Lawmakers,&#8217; informed the country that they were sponsoring a constitutional amendment bill for a single six-year term for the president and governors. This, they argued, would help in curbing government&#8217;s spending, enhancing governance efficiency and promoting national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":175309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,7321,257,4687,393,2450,9074,40902,254,7557],"class_list":["post-175308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-governors","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-president","tag-single","tag-sixyear","tag-south-africa-today","tag-term"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}