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Senate Reworks, Passes Seven Bills

1,195 views · Published 27 November 2018 · 8:02 · Indexed 23 October 2026

Channel: Viable Tv · 2018 · News & Politics

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The Nigerian Senate has reconsidered and passed seven bills that were initially sent to the Clerk of the National Assembly for onward transmission to the President Muhammadu Buhari.

Senate Majority Leader, Ahmed Lawan, during Tuesday"s plenary explained that after critical examination of the Bills, the Directorate of Legal Services of the National Assembly observed some fundamental issues which required fresh legislative action on some clauses in the bills.

The bills are Nigerian Aeronautical Search and Rescue Bill, 2018; Climate Change (Est, etc) Bill, 2018; Chartered Institute of Pension Practitioner of Nigeria (Est, etc) Hill, 2018 and Chartered Institute of Training and Development of Nigeria (Est, etc) Bill, 2018

Others are National Institute of Credit Administration (Est, etc) Bill, 2018; Digital Rights and Freedom (Est, etc) Bill, 2018 and Nigerian Film Corporation (repeal & Re-enactment) Bill, 2018.

The Senate Majority leader urged the senate to rescind its decision on the affected Clauses of the Bills as passed and recommit same to the Committee of the Whole for reconsideration and passage in accordance with Order 1(b) and 53(6) of Senate Standing Order.

Senator Lawan further stated that a technical committee of the Senate, House of Representatives and Directorate of Legal Services met and worked on the clauses.



The Upper Chamber however resolved into the committee of the whole, reconsidered and passed the bills 

President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Sarak also advised the clerk of the National Assembly to take note of the amendments and reflect them immediately

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