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Nigeria's Senate approves new States' Creation

Kings Olajide
The Nigeria's lawmakers in the Red Chamber, on 18th July 2025, unanimously approved the long-awaited creation of additional states across the six geo-political zones in the country.

Twelve proposed states were reportedly endorsed for creation, marking an epochal moment in the political history of the most populous and popular black nation in the world.

The historic move, followed the third and final reading of the Senate Committee on State Creation’s report.

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The newly approved states are:

• South East: Anim (from parts of Anambra and Imo States) and Adada (from Enugu State).

• South West: Ijebu (from Ogun State) and Ibadan (from Oyo State).

• South South: Toru-Ibe (from sections of Ondo, Edo, and Delta States) and Obolo (from Akwa Ibom State).

• North East: Savanna (from Borno State) and Amana (from Adamawa State).

• North West: Tiga (from Kano State) and Gurara (from Southern Kaduna).

• North Central: Okura (from Kogi State) and Apa (from Benue State).

This aims to address long-standing demands for improved local governance across the six zones.

However, some analysts and concerned stakeholders have expressed mixed feelings, saying the outcome of the Senate's deliberations does not represent an equitable distribution of the country's resources among her citizentry.

They are of the view that a zone like the South-East deserves more than two additional states to balance the existing lapse in the previous creations of states, thereby ending the lingering marginalization perception being harboured by the members of the said region.

They, therefore, enjoined the Senate to revisit the memo towards arriving at an all-inclusive result that every Nigerian, irrespective of origin, would be proud of.

Fred Nwaozor, popularly known as TheMediaAmbassador, is a Nigerian tech expert, author, creative & content writer, media strategist, policy analyst, blogger, public speaker and rights activist. The renowned columnist regularly writes for the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), and is the Founder & Convener of Right Thinkers Movement (RITMO), Nigeria. He's a chartered industrial physicist, engineer and IT personnel. As a media guru, he enjoys an active presence in all media segments - including electronic, print & digital - since two decades ago till date. As a full-time researcher and educator, he's a regular contributor and peer reviewer for various internationally-noted engineering journals. As Telecommunications and Automation engineer, his research interest mainly lies in System Modelling, Internet of Things (IoT), Smart city, Cybersecurity, Wireless networks, and Machine Learning (ML).