LEGISLATURE

The House of Representatives yesterday rejected a bill seeking to restrict public officers from diverting public funds to sponsor their children or wards education abroad. The proposed legislation titled, “A Bill for an Act to Regulate International Studies for Wards and Children…

The Bureau of Public Enterprises has kicked against a bill at the Senate seeking to repeal the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission Act 2005 and enact the Public Private Partnership Regulatory Commission Act 2022. This is as critical stakeholders in the Public Private…

The House of Representatives at plenary Thursday rejected the Bill seeking to repeal the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) Act, 2011 and transfer its assets and liabilities to the Ministry of Finance Incorporated. The proposed legislation titled: “A Bill for an Act to…

The National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) has announced the appointment of new officers for the Senate and House of Representatives as well as the redeployment of others. In the new appointments announced by the Chairman of the Commission, Engr. Ahmed Kadi Amshi, Barrister…

The House of Representatives on Wednesday set up an ad-hoc committee to establish areas of mergers, synergies, and justification of the existence of some established Agencies, Departments, Boards, Parastatals, and Corporations, which are no longer needed in the country. The House reached…

The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to transmit a bill to the National Assembly to amend the Petroleum Industry Act. Lawan stated this before he referred the president’s request for the amendment of the 2022…

The Senate on Wednesday passed two bills to establish a Federal University in the Federal Capital Territory and Rivers State. They are the FCT University of Science and Technology Abaji (Establishment) Bill, 2022; and Federal University of Environmental Technology, Koroma/Saakperwa Tai Ogoni,…

Members of the National Assembly yesterday voted on the report of its Joint Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution (Fifth Alteration) Bills, 2022, which consisted of 68 bills. The Senate passed a total of 49 bills out of the 68…

The Senate on Tuesday passed bills to grant financial and administrative autonomy to Local Governments Areas in the country. While 92 senators voted to pass financial autonomy for Local Governments, 88 voted to pass administrative autonomy of LGAs.

The House of Representatives has rejected the bill for a constitutional life pension to Senate President, Speaker and their Deputies. When the bill was put to voting, 162 House of Representatives members voted against it while three abstained.