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Reps pass bill to give women choice on state of origin (Punch)

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In this photo taken on September 15, 2016 women and children queue to enter one of the Unicef nutrition clinics at the Muna makeshift camp which houses more than 16,000 IDPs (internaly displaced people) on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. Aid agencies have long warned about the risk of food shortages in northeast Nigeria because of the conflict, which has killed at least 20,000 since 2009 and left more than 2.6 million homeless. In July, the United Nations said nearly 250,000 children under five could suffer from severe acute malnutrition this year in Borno state alone and one in five -- some 50,000 -- could die. / AFP PHOTO / STEFAN HEUNIS

The House of Representatives has passed an amendment to the Federal Character Commission Establishment Act 2010 to give married women the option of claiming the state or local government of origin of their fathers or husbands.

The amendment was passed for third reading at the plenary on Tuesday following the unanimous adoption of the report by the committee of the whole.

According to the explanatory note on the bill, the amendment is to give married women the option of choosing either their fathers or husbands’ states.

The lawmakers particularly amended Section 2 of the FCC Act to read, “A married woman shall have the option to lay claim to her state or local government of origin for the purpose of implementation of the Federal Character formulae at the national level or state level as the case may be.” Read more

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