{"id":177077,"date":"2024-07-22T21:13:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T19:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-senator-proposes-part-time-legislature-says-lawmakers-salaries-not-enough\/"},"modified":"2024-07-22T21:13:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T19:13:10","slug":"nigerian-senator-proposes-part-time-legislature-says-lawmakers-salaries-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-senator-proposes-part-time-legislature-says-lawmakers-salaries-not-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Senator Proposes Part-Time Legislature, Says Lawmakers&#8217; Salaries Not Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Abia North senator Orji Kalu said part-time law-making will help cut the cost of governance in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Abia North Senator Orji Kalu has proposed an amendment to the constitution to reduce federal and state lawmakers&#8217; plenary to four times a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Mr Kalu, a former governor of Abia State, made the proposal in a viral video shared on his verified Facebook page on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">One of Mr Kalu&#8217;s aides, Kenneth Udeh, confirmed the post&#8217;s authenticity to our reporter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">In the video, Mr Kalu, chairman of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407220415.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>Abia North senator Orji Kalu said part-time law-making will help cut the cost of governance in the country. Abia North Senator Orji Kalu has proposed an amendment to the constitution to reduce federal and state lawmakers&#8217; plenary to four times a year. Mr Kalu, a former governor of Abia State, made the proposal in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177078,"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":[258,256,14377,9722,257,393,482,32163,7995,19058,7798,254],"class_list":["post-177077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-lawmakers","tag-legislature","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-parttime","tag-proposes","tag-salaries","tag-senator","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/177077","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=177077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}