Sentences with phrase «unitary system of government»

After the first military coup of 1966 and under the short - lived administration of the then Head of State General Aguiyi Ironsi, Decree 34 of 1966 was promulgated abrogating the federal system of government and substituting same with unitary system of government.

To me, we have combined the features of federal, presidential and unitary systems of government.

Not exact matches

Our de facto unitary system has produced states and local governments who can neither pay staff salaries nor perform the basic functions of governments - who can not properly educate their citizens, secure their communities or provide basic, functional roads and other infrastructure.

Contributing to the debate, Leader of the House, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila (Lagos - APC), said Nigeria practises the federal system of government and not unitary system.

The military practically abolished Nigeria's federal system in favour of a unitary, distributive economy in which we all shared proceeds of oil; they created more and more states eroding sub-national economic viability; they nationalized and indigenized banks and declared that government would hold the «commanding heights» of our economy, marginalizing investment and the private sector brought in «big government»; they implemented «Udoji awards» and other elements of oil and FX subsidies that Nigeria battles to overcome today; and the about - to - depart government of Murtala / Obasanjo took the first $ 1billion jumbo loan that set Nigeria on the path to debt peonage!

Their realpolitik theory was that doing so would cost the government so much money that it would eventually prefer to operate the schools under a unitary, integrated system, instead of paying for two comparably financed systems side by side.