the higher tge population of tge state the larger is tge numver of members in its legislstive assembly
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Nigeria, with an estimated population of around 187 million, is by far the most populous country in Africa.[1] A federation, Nigeria has a three-tiered government structure including the federal government, thirty-six states,[2] and a federal capital (Abuja), as well as 768 local government areas within the states.[3]
The history of the Nigerian legislature dates back to the Lagos Legislative Council of 1862, established under British colonial rule. Nigeria, like most African states, is a colonial creation and, as in most other African countries that have gone through this experience, its annexation was not immediate. For Nigeria, it began with the ceding of Lagos, through coercion, to the British Crown by King Dosunmu in 1861.[4] A year later, Lagos was declared a Crown Colony and a legislative council was established to “advise and assist” the governor of the Colony who served as the head of both the executive and legislative bodies of the Colony.[5] The members of the Council, who were appointed to their positions, did not have lawmaking power.[6] Of the ten members of the Council at the time, only two were Nigerian.[7]
The administration of British colonies in the region continued to evolve and by 1914 the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria was established by merging the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria (which by then included the Protectorate of Lagos) and the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria.[8] For administrative purposes, the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria was divided into three regions: Lagos, the Northern Provinces, and the Southern Provinces.[9] While Lagos’s Legislative Council was kept intact, a new legislative body, the Nigerian Council, was established for the rest of the Protectorate of Nigeria.[10] Only six of the thirty-six members of the Council were Nigerian and the body had no legislative function.[11]
Major changes were introduced to the legislative structure through a 1922 Constitution. The Constitution abolished the Lagos Legislative Council and established a national legislative body with forty-six members, four of whom were elected.[12] It accorded the body lawmaking power; however, its jurisdiction was limited to Lagos and the Southern Provinces.[13] The Constitution also permitted members of the body to introduce bills as long as they were not finance-related.[14]
A 1946 Constitution introduced further reforms to the legislature. A key reform under this Constitution created the foundation for the country’s current federal system by establishing three regional legislative bodies: the Northern Regional Council (headquartered in Enugu), the Western House of Assembly (seated in Ibadan), and the Eastern House of Assembly (with Kaduna as its headquarters).[15] However, Nigeria remained a unitary state because, among other things, the role of the regional assemblies was restricted to advising the central government on all proposed bills except finance bills.[16]
This changed with the enactment of the 1951 Constitution, which accorded the regional legislatures lawmaking powers on various regional issues enumerated in the Constitution.[17] In addition, the Constitution enhanced the representative nature of both the central and regional legislatures by increasing the seats of the bodies that needed to be filled through an election.[18] However, the 1951 Constitution did not provide a list of areas of legislative competencies for the central government, which meant that legislative powers of the central government “extended to and overlapped those of the regional governments.”[19] The federal arrangement was further enhanced through the 1954 Constitution, which, among other things, clearly defined the legislative competencies of the federal and regional legislatures.[20]
More reforms were made in the years that followed. For instance, in 1959 the Nigerian Senate was established and the Nigerian federal legislature, which until then had been a unicameral body, became bicameral.[21] Most of the members of the newly-constituted, forty-eight member body were appointed to their seats.[22] The number of states, which stood at four in 1963, had increased to thirty-six by 1991, where it stands today.[23]
At independence in 1960, Nigeria adopted a parliamentary system of government mirroring that of its former colonizer, the United Kingdom.[24] The Governor-General, who served as the representative of the Queen and the Head of State, appointed the Prime Minister as the Head of Government, and his cabinet from among members of the legislature
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The biggest state, Uttar Pradesh, has 404 members in its Assembly. States which have small populations and are small in size have a provision for having an even lesser number of members in the Legislative Assembly. Puducherry has 33 members. Mizoram and Goa have only 40 members each
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