The two chambers of the National Assembly will today enter the most decisive step in changing the 1999 Constitution with votes on 32 bills in the two chambers of the National Assembly.
The bills include provisions to allow married women choose either her indigeneship by birth or by marriage for the purposes of appointment or election.
Among the bills to be voted for today and tomorrow are also bills to delete the Land Use Decree, National Youth Service Corp, NYSC Decree, among others from the constitution.
Voting is expected to be carried out over two days and is to be by electronic voting in the two houses.
For a bill to be carried two thirds of the Senate, meaning 73 votes are required, while in the House of Representatives, 240 votes are required for passage.
The set of bills to be presented have been harmonised between the Senate and the House so that the same bills would be voted upon in the two chambers.
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