South-South Development Commission (Establishment) Act, 2025

The Act creates the South-South Development Commission as a body corporate charged with receiving and managing Federation Account allocations, donations and grants for the development of the South-South states, tackling the infrastructure deficit, militancy and communal crises and ecological and environmental problems. The Federal Government pays into its Fund the equivalent of 15% of the monthly statutory allocations due to the member states. The Senate and House passed the bill on 3 December 2024 and it was signed on 24 March 2025.

2 sections

1. 1(1)-(2).Establishment of the South-South Development Commission

   (1) There is established the South-South Development Commission (in this Act referred to as "the Commission"). (2) The Commission shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue or be sued in its corporate name.

2. 15(2)(a).Fund of the Commission

   There shall be paid from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation and credited to the Fund established in subsection (1) – (a) from the Federal Government, the equivalent of 15% of the total monthly statutory allocations due to member States of the Commission from the Federation Account;

This is a readable rendering for citizens. The authoritative text is the gazetted version — linked below.