Ever looked at a lawmaker and thought “I could do that job”? Here’s what the law actually requires before you can try. The 1999 Constitution (as amended) sets baseline qualifications for each seat. The exact wording covers citizenship, age, and education, here’s the gist, in plain terms: Age. Nigeria lowered its age requirements in 2018 […]
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Quick vocabulary check before we go further: “bicameral” just means “two chambers.” “Unicameral” means one. Nigeria’s National Assembly is bicameral, Senate plus House of Representatives. Every State House of Assembly, by contrast, is unicameral, just one chamber, no upper/lower split. Why the difference? At the federal level, Nigeria is a union of 36 states plus […]
Let’s be honest about something: AI can now generate a photo of a classroom that doesn’t exist, even a voice saying whatever you want it to say. So the fair question is if anyone can fake evidence that convincingly, what stops someone from faking a report on GLOW? Short answer: nothing stops it completely. Nothing […]
You don’t need to scroll through every project in Nigeria to find the ones that matter to you. GLOW Tracker’s project list is searchable and filterable, here’s exactly how to use it. Step 1: Go to the Projects page. From the homepage, click “Projects” in the menu, or go straight to the Projects tab. Step […]
This is the post where everything in this series connects directly to why GLOW exists. You’ve probably heard the phrase “constituency project” thrown around, usually followed by someone complaining that theirs is either abandoned, invisible, or both. So what actually is one? A constituency project is a development project, a road, a borehole, a classroom […]
Everything we’ve covered so far; bills, chambers, committees, sits under one of three big jobs every legislature does. Naming them clearly makes the rest of this series click into place. Job 1: Lawmaking. The one everybody knows. Writing, debating, and passing the laws that govern the country or state, everything from the annual budget to […]
We already walked through how a bill becomes an Act at the federal level (First Reading, Second Reading, Committee, Third Reading, then the President’s assent). Good news: your State House of Assembly follows almost the exact same choreography, with two differences worth knowing. The stages are the same. A bill is introduced (First Reading), debated […]
If lawmaking is the legislature’s most visible job, oversight is its most underrated one, and it’s the job most directly connected to everything GLOW is trying to do. In plain terms, oversight means the legislature checking the Executive’s homework. Once a budget is approved and money starts flowing to ministries, agencies, and projects, oversight is […]
There’s an old saying in government: whoever controls the money controls the decisions. In Nigeria, as in most democracies, that control formally belongs to the legislature, not the President, not the Governor. This is often called “the power of the purse.” Here’s how it actually works. Each year, the Executive (the President federally, a Governor […]
If you picture “the National Assembly at work” as 469 people arguing in one big chamber, you’re picturing the part that matters least. Most of the real work; the detailed reading, the expert questioning, the actual shaping of a bill or budget line, happens in committees, in smaller rooms, with far less press attention. A […]