Senate approves Buhari Request, Passes 45 other Bills within 5hrs


The National Assembly, on Wednesday, passed 46 bill into law in session that was less than 5 hours.
The bill was earlier passed by the lower chamber to the Senate for scrutiny. It was learnt that entire Senate session lasted less than five hours, the lawmakers used about 10 minutes to pass the bills.

According to source, the decision followed a motion moved by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Ita Enang (APC-Akwa Ibom North-East) and supported by eight others.
The Senate equally approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s request to appoint 15 special advisers.
Mr. Enang, in a motion, calledfor the suspension of Order 79 (1) of the Senate Standing Order, which stipulates that all bills should go through first, second and third readings before passage.
The passage of the bills led to a rowdy session, as some senators objected to the procedure adopted.

Reacting to the objection, the President of the Senate, David Mark, asked those opposed to the passage to present a substantive motion at Thursday’s plenary.

“I have ruled. If you disagree, you come back with a substantive motion tomorrow,” Mr. Mark said.

Some of the bills passed are Office of the Nigerian Financial Ombudsman Bill, 2015; Institute of Chartered Trustees of Nigeria Bill, 2015 and People’s Bank of Nigeria Act (Repeal) Bill, 2015.

Others are Nigerian Bank for Commerce and Industry Act (Repeal) Bill, 2015; Federal Saving Bank Act (Repeal) Bill, 2015; Loan (State Development) Act (Repeal) Bill, 2015; Chartered Institute of Statisticians of Nigeria Bill, 2015 and Nigerian Metallurgical Industry Bill, 2015.

The Senate also passed Federal Audit Commission Bill, 2015; Treasury Management Bill, 2015; Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Act 2010 (Amendment) Bill, 2015 and Investment, Securities (Amendment) Bill, 2015 among others.
Meanwhile, the Leader of the Senate, Victor Ndoma-Egba, said that the Senate would consider the amendment to the 1999 Constitution (as amended) at Thursday’s plenary.
The Senate, thereafter, adjourned plenary to Thursday when it would hold a valedictory session to mark the end of the 7th Senate.
The Senate passed the 46 bills just a day before the end of its four-year term.
The National Assembly has faced criticism over its poor performance despite taking a huge part of government budget.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

POINT OF VIEW!!! IN DEFENCE OF BUHARI AND THE LIMITATION OF RULE OF LAW By Ahmed Ayanfe

Image
✍ �A discourse on Nigeria democracy brewed between I and a colleague at work some weeks back where we discussed on corruption among other things holding Nigeria back. I was not surprised when he said he prefer a military government that abhor indiscipline and can bypass the law of the land to nail corrupt individuals that have formed a parallel government (cabals) and hold the country as ra nsom for their own selfish political and economic aggrandizement to the modern slavery being parkaged as democracy. ✍ �I partially concurred with him because the constitution and rule of law that this corrupt individuals always use as a shield to perpetrate their sinister activities has been turned to a cobweb that can only hold light objects (commonmen) while it breaks the moment it sight heavy objects (cabals). ✍ �Yes! I have written series of articles to criticise Buhari failing administration but have never for once chastise him for undermining the rule of law (even though he has disobe
Continue...»

See what NYSC members get as allowance across the states of the nation

Image
In Nigeria, every year fresh graduates travel across the nation to different states in a scheme called National Youth Service Corps popularly called NYSC. The NYSC scheme was an initiative of the Yakubu Gowon military regime in 1973 to reconstruct, reconcile and rebuild the country after the Nigerian Civil war. While many Nigerians have called on successive governments to scrap the scheme as they say it has outlived its usefulness, many others have asked that the scheme should be retained. Youth corp members working on road signs in Abuja recently After three weeks in the camps where they are taken through rigorous physical routine, the corp members are then posted to a place of primary assignment. Apart from the uniform salary paid to youth corp members nationwide, state governments where the NYSC members are posted also give them some allowances. In some states, the prices of the NYSC members differ based on their course of study, with medical corp members usually fa
Continue...»