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(d) the establishment of institutions and bodies for the promotion or financing of industrial, commercial or agricultural projects. 18. Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, a House of Assembly may make laws for that State with respect to industrial, commercial or agricultural development of the State. 19. Nothing in the foregoing paragraphs of this item shall be construed as precluding a House of Assembly from making laws with respect to any of the matters referred to in the foregoing paragraphs. 20. For the purposes of the foregoing paragraphs of this item, the word “agricultural” includes fishery. I- Scientific and technological research 21. The National Assembly may make laws to regulate or co-ordinate scientific and technological research throughout the Federation. 22. Nothing herein shall prelude a House of Assembly from establishing or making provisions for an institution or other arrangement for the purpose of scientific and technological research. J- Statistics 23. The National Assembly may make laws for the Federation or any part thereof with respect to statistics so far as the subject matter relates to - (a) any matter upon which the National Assembly has power to make laws; and (b) the organisation of co-ordinated scheme of statistics for the Federation or any part thereof on any matter whether or not it has power to make laws with respect thereto. 24. A House of Assembly may make Laws for the State with respect to statistics and on any matter other than that referred to in paragraph 23 (a) of this item. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Updated with the First, Second , Third and Fourth Alterations 229