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NEWS and REPORTS => Nigerian News => Topic started by: CNN on Jul 27, 2011, 09:02 AM

Title: Nigerian president pushes to expand presidential term
Post by: CNN on Jul 27, 2011, 09:02 AM
The term of service for the president should be extended from its current four years -- renewable once -- to a single term of "a little more than four years," Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said Tuesday in a statement.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_africa/~4/4taGsnSjCAA)

Title: Re: Nigerian president pushes to expand presidential term
Post by: MyInfoStride on Jul 27, 2011, 11:06 AM
What is the justification for it?
Title: Re: Nigerian president pushes to expand presidential term
Post by: emezico on Jul 27, 2011, 11:58 AM
President Jonathan shouldn't be talking about elongation of presidential term, now. Nigeria is facing security challenges (Boko Haram), epileptic power supply, unemployment, poverty, just to mention a few.

Those challenges should be addressed first, not elongation of presidential term.