20/05/2026
TINUBU MOVES TO REWRITE NIGERIA: TO RENAME COUNTRY “UNITED STATES OF NIGERIA”, END SHARIA CRIMINAL LAW, AND TRANSFER MAJOR POWERS FROM ABUJA TO THE STATES — PRESIDENCY SOURCE
ABUJA — Nigeria is on the brink of a constitutional explosion as a senior Presidency insider exclusively confirmed to Insta Bullets News that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is finalising a historic amendment that would rename the nation the United States of Nigeria (USN), abolish Sharia criminal law across the northern states, and shift core federal powers directly to state governments for the first time since 1966. The insider described the document — internally code-named Project True Federation — as the most radical redesign of Nigeria’s political structure since independence, drafted under Tinubu’s direct supervision and expected to hit the National Assembly by December 15.
According to the source, Tinubu insisted that Nigeria must end the “dual-country contradiction” created by operating a secular constitution alongside full Sharia penal systems in 12 states. The proposed Section 10A bans all criminal prosecutions under religious law, restricting Sharia courts strictly to civil, marital, inheritance, and customary matters. Hisbah corps across several northern states will be dissolved, and all enforcement powers will be moved under constitutional policing standards. At the same time, the bill restructures the federation by shifting control of policing, prisons, minerals, railways, electricity, and VAT collection from the Federal Government to the 36 states — effectively dismantling the unitary architecture imposed by military rule.
The name change to United States of Nigeria, the insider said, is Tinubu’s attempt to “signal a true federation where states are the new centres of authority, not distant appendages of Abuja.” States would retain 50 percent of all revenues generated within their borders, receive another 20 percent from a federal pool, and contribute 30 percent to national
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