Tag: BILL
Reps Pass Bill To Make Free Healthcare For Children Compulsory
The House of Representatives has passed for second reading a bill seeking to make it compulsory for the Federal Government to provide free health...
Electoral Act: National Assembly Passes Amendment Bill
The Senate and House of Representatives has passed the harmonised version of the Electoral Act, Amendment Bill, 2021 at separate sittings, following the consideration...
Senate Passes Bill To Scrap Ferma
The Senate has passed the Federal Road Bill which seeks to repeal the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency Act, Federal Highways Act, and the Control...
Kidnapping: Bill Seeking Tougher Punishment Passes 2nd Reading In Senate
A Bill titled “Abduction, Wrongful Restraints and Confinement Bill 2021”, seeking stiffer penalty for kidnapping, wrongful restraint and confinement for ransom has passed second...
Sickle Cell: Senate Passes Bill To Control Disease In Nigeria
The Senate has passed a bill to control and manage sickle cell anaemia, a genetically inherited disease in Nigeria.It was reported that the passage...
Nigeria Can’t Be Competitive Without Institutionalizing Research – TETFUND Boss
The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund TETFUND, Suleiman Boforo, says the Nigerian economy can only be globally competitive with the institutionalization of Research...
NCDC Bill Violates UNESCO Declaration
The proposed Control of Infectious Diseases Bill 2020 is a violation of Article 6 of the 2005 UNESCO Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights.At...
FG Pays N200bn To Offset GENCOS’ Gas Bill
The Federal Government has in the past two to three days paid over 200 billion naira for power supply in Nigeria.The Group Managing Director,...
Covid-19: Reps Propose Emergency Tax Bill
The House of Representatives has passed the Emergency Economic Stimulus Bill, 2020, which, among other things, aims at providing temporary relief to companies and...
Freedom Of Information: NCC, NUJ, AI, Civil Groups Reject Social Media...
The Social Media Bill suffered a setback in the Senate.Some stakeholders, mainly civil
society and non-governmental organisations, NGOs; the Nigeria Union of
Journalists, NUJ and Amnesty...
Older Persons’ Rights: Coalition Calls For Passage Of Bill
The
Coalition of Societies for the Rights of Older Persons in Nigeria has canvassed
the passage of Rights of Older Persons’Bill to protect their rights in...
North East: House Of Representatives To Revisit NGOs Control Bill
House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila says the House would revisit the bill for an act to regulate the operations of Non-Governmental Organisations, NGOs...
Religious Regulatory Bill: Court Rules Against El-Rufai,Says You Cannot License PFN...
A Kaduna State High Court has ruled that the plan by
the Kaduna State government to issue licences to the pastors of Pentecostal
Fellowship of Nigeria...
2019 Budget: Senate Again Defers On Bill Passage Due Non Data...
The Senate has postponed the passage of the 2019 budget to next week due to non-availability of details. This is the third time that...
Minimum Wage: Bill Undergoing Standard Procedure — Presidency
The Presidency confirmed that the New Minimum Wage
Bill was transmitted to President Muhammadu Buhari last week.The Senior Special Assistant to the President on
National Assembly...
2019 Budget: Senate To Commence Debate On Bill Wednesday
Senate
President, Bukola Saraki, says the senate will commence debate on the general
principles of the 2019 Appropriation Bill.Saraki,
who made the announcement at the plenary on...
2019 Budget: Senate May Pass Bill In April
The Senate has resumed the consideration of the
general principles of the 2019 Appropriation Bill with more knocks on the
budget.The upper chamber slated the passage...
