{"id":10348,"date":"2016-10-07T14:11:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T14:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=10348"},"modified":"2016-10-16T14:29:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T14:29:01","slug":"nigerias-state-of-origin-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/nigerias-state-of-origin-conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s \u201cstate of origin\u201d conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Cheta Nwanze<\/p>\n<p>Government in Nigeria \u201cis detached from its people at every level of the federation\u201d, said Chidi Odinkalu, chair of the National Human Rights Commission, when interviewed for ARI\u2019s 2016 briefing note \u201cState(s) of crisis\u201d. For most Nigerians, the state and unelected local government authorities are the most proximate form of government. Yet too little attention is paid to how these institutions operate and impact \u2013 or fail to impact \u2013 on the daily lives of citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Read further on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africaresearchinstitute.org\/newsite\/blog\/nigerias-state-origin-conundrum\/\">Africa Research Institute website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Cheta Nwanze Government in Nigeria \u201cis detached from its people at every level of the federation\u201d, said Chidi Odinkalu, chair of the National Human Rights Commission, when interviewed for ARI\u2019s 2016 briefing note \u201cState(s) of crisis\u201d. For most Nigerians, the state and unelected local government authorities are the most proximate form of government. Yet [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-nigeria","type-blog-posts","item-year-395","item-theme-internal-citizenship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10349,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348\/revisions\/10349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}