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May 21

Electric Power Closer to the People: Can State Governments Legislate on Electricity Distribution?

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Recently, there have been debates on the Constitutional powers of State governments in Nigeria (States used in the sense of component parts of Nigeria, as an instance, Lagos State), to make laws relating to electricity distribution within their jurisdictions. This debate has particularly come to the front burner because of the proposed policy of Lagos State which raised that point.