National Conference - See LIST of the 20 committees and their terms of reference

Delegates at the ongoing national conference have been asked to select three committees of interest among a list of 20, from where they would be grouped into the ones that best fits their personal and professional qualifications.

Here are the 20 thematic areas for the conference:

1. COMMITTEE ON DEVOLUTION OF POWER

-Fiscal federalism

-Revenue sharing

-Resource control

-Sharing formula

-Policing

-Local Government Administration

-Role of traditional rulers and institutions in governance.

2. COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL RESTRUCTURING AND FORMS OF GOVERNMENT

-Federalism

-Regionalism

-State Creation

-Geopolitical zones

-Forms and Content of Government

Presidential

Parliamentary

-Legislature

Bicameral

Unicameral legislature

(Part-time/Full-time)

3. COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY

-Armed Forces

Civilian oversight of the security sector

Review of the Armed Forces Act

-Reform of the Nigerian Customs

-Road Safety Corps

-Terrorism/Counter-Terrorism

-Armed Robbery

-Kidnapping

-Small Arms Proliferation

-Communal Violence

-Election Violence

-Illegal oil theft and smuggling

-Sea Piracy

-Organized/Trans – National Crime

Money Laundering

Human Trafficking

Drug Trafficking

Terrorism Financing

-Cyber Crime

4. COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT

-Meteorology and climate change

-Illegal Mining Activities

-Pollution

-Gas Flaring

-Protection of Biodiversity

-Afforestation and Reforestation

-Flooding/Gully Erosion

-Environmental Degradation

Oil Spillage and Desertification

-Drought

-Waste management/Disposal

Hazardous/toxic Waste

-Bush Burning

-Natural Disaster

5. COMMITTEE ON POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

-Immunity clause

-Good Governance and democratization

Deepening democracy, democratic culture and orientation

Mechanism for a more inclusive participatory democracy

National Ethics

-Minority rights/ethnic nationalities

-Corruption

Anti Corruption Agencies

Corruption and National Development

-Constitutional Amendment

-Freedom of information

6. COMMITTEE ON LAW, JUDICIARY, HUMAN RIGHT AND LEGAL REFORM

-Law and order

-Judiciary

Immunity of judicial officers

Review of judicial institutions

Increase in the number of supreme court justices

Increase in the number of divisions of the court of appeal

Technology in administration of justice

Professional development of judicial officers

-Sharia and customary legal systems

-Delays in administration of justice

-Independence of the judiciary

Funding of the judiciary

Appointing of judicial officers

-Access to justice

-Alternative justice – ADR, Mediation, Conciliation etc

-Specialised Court/ tribunals

-Condition of service of judicial officers

-Prison Reforms

Rehabilitation

Reformation

Reintegration

Sentencing and Death penalty

-Justiciability of the fundamental objectives and directive principles of state policy;

Chapter 2 of the constitution

-Jurisdiction of industrial court

7. COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL WELFARE

-Health

Universal Health Care Coverage

Primary Healthcare

Emphasis on Preventive Health.

-Education

Restructuring of curriculum

Investment in Education

National education policy

Return of missionary and private schools to original owners

Nomadic education

Institutionalizing Almajiri education system

-Housing

Affordable Housing

-Social Security

Rights of Senior citizens

Unemployed Nigerians

Pension and Gratuity

-Gender

Status of married women

State of Origin

State of Marriage

Affirmative Action

Political Participation

Discrimination

Childs Rights Law

Childs right Law implementation

Disability rights/Welfare

8.COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

-Roads

-Railway

-Aviation

-Maritime

-National Inland Water Ways

-Shipping and Shipment

9. COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT

-Information, Communication and Technology

Media/ Social network

-Science and technology education

-Investment in research and development

-Promotion and improvement of indegenious technical innovations

-Space and nuclear regime

-Capacity building and training for scientist

-Medical technology

-Biodiversity

-Fabrication of buildings e.t.c

10. COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

-Food Security

-Food storage, processing and packaging industries

-Grazing reserves/ ranching and Industrial Cattle feeds

-Water Resources

-National agricultural policy

-Agricultural subsidy

-Mechanized agriculture

-Land acquisition, traditional institutions and agriculture

Irrigation

11. COMMITTEE ON CIVIL SOCIETY AND SPORTS.

-Capacity building and CSOs

-Youth Empowerment

-Unemployment

-Minimum Wage

-Trade Unionism and Industrial Action

-National Youth Service Corps

-Investment in sports

-Legal Regime in Sports.

12. COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SERVICE

-Federal Character

-Civil Service Structure

-Remuneration of public Officers and Civil servants

-State of the civil service

13. COMMITTEE ON ELECTORAL MATTERS.

- Political parties and electoral process

-Methods of elections

-Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)

-Local government elections

-Regulation of campaign

-Campaign financing and expenditure ceiling.

-State Electoral Bodies

-Electoral offences

-Independence and autonomy of Independent National Electoral Commission. (INEC)

-Delineation of constituencies

-Conduct of free and fair elections

-The role of security agencies in elections

- Diaspora Voting

14.COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN. POLICY AND DIASPORA MATTERS

-Prisoner Exchange

-Extradition

-Promotion of culture and tourism, investment in tourism.

-Cultural exchange

-Nigeria and International peacekeeping operations

-Review of Technical Aid Corps program

-Promotion of peace, human rights, justice and racial equality within the international system

-Nigeria-Centric foreign policy -Security and well being of NIgerians at Home and Abroad

-Afrocentricism

-Promoting Economic Community of West African States  (ECOWAS)regime

-Non alignment

- Economic diplomacy

-Domestication of treaties

-Mutual Legal Assistance

-Universal Jurisdiction

-Role/ participation international Organization.

15. COMMITTEE ON LAND TENURE MATTERS AND NATIONAL BOUNDARY

-Review of the land use act

-Traditional land holding rights

-Establishment and manning of boundaries

-Adjustment of boundaries

16. COMMITTEE ON TRADE AND INVESTMENT

-Patent, copyright, trademarks, trade or business name, industrial designs and merchandize marks

-Bio-piracy and traditional knowledge

-Foreign direct investments

-Export processing zone

Industries

-Protectionism and quality control

-Oil and other mineral resources exploration and management.

-Trade agreement

-Bilateral/ multilateral

17.  ENERGY:

-Solar Energy

-Nuclear Energy

-Wind Energy

-Hydro Energy

-Thermal Energy

18.   RELIGION

-State and Religion

-Sponsorship and Public Funding of Pilgrimage

-Restoring National Ethics, Culture, Morals and Core Values.

19. COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC FINANCE AND REVENUE GENERATION

-Domestic and external debt

-Tax Administration

-Tax contribution

-Internally generated revenue

-Externally generated Revenue

-Regulation of external borrowing by states and local government

20. COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION

-Movement of goods, person and services

-Citizenship and nationality

-Integrated national database

-Immigration and internal security

-Dual Citizenship of Nigerians in Diaspora

Residency

-Indigeneity and residency (indigene/settlers dichotomy)

-Refugee and Asylum

-Census

-Border patrol

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