#TheYorubaAgenda ISSUE 2 THE SCOPE AND LIMITS OF THE POWERS OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT VIS-À-VIS THE FEDERATING UNITS: RECOMMENDATIONS: A negotiated legislative Exclusive, Concurrent and Residual List. EXCLUSIVE LEGISLATIVE LIST 1. Accounts of the government of the central/unit and of offices, courts and authorities thereof, including audit of those accounts 2. Arms, ammunition and explosives 3. Aviation, including airports, safety of aircraft and carriage of passengers and goods by air 4. Award of National Honors decoration etc. 5. Citizenship, naturalization and aliens 6. Copyright, patents, trademarks, trade or business names industrial designs and merchandise marks 7. Customs duties 8. Currency, coinage and legal tender 9. Defense excepting deployment, command territorial control, central military council (detail by military experts) 10. Deportation of persons who are not citizens of Nigeria 11. Diplomatic and consular representative excepting regional consular representatives 12. Exchange control 13. External affairs 14. Extradition 15. Elections: Central elections only 16. Immigration into and Emigration from Nigeria 17. Implementation of treaties relating to matters on this list 18. Legal proceedings between regional governments or between the government of the federation and the government of any region or any other authority or person 19. Maritime shipping and navigation, including (a) Shipping and navigation on tidal waters (b) Shipping and navigation on the river Niger and its effluents and on any such other inland waterways as may be designed by the national assembly to be international waterways or be an inter-regional water way. 20 Census excepting the census conducted by the regional government. 21. Military, army, navy and air force, including any other branch of the armed forces of the federation 22. Nuclear energy 23. Pension of retired central unit public civil officers 24. Petroleum profit tax and other fees rates and levies on mines and minerals (See resource control. Issue 4). All minerals royalty 100% to owner state as representing right. PPT to be shared as in proprietary issue 25. Police and other government security services establish to enforce federal laws and inter-state crimes 26. Prisons excepting regional prisons
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