•Tinubu President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed into law the bill establishing the North-Central Development Commission (NCDC). Senate President Godswill Akpabio announced the signing of the bill today during a session in the Senate chamber, reports The Nation. He said: “Let me also inform my colleagues that Mr. President has also assented to N...
•Governor Siminalayi Fubara Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has signed the ₦1.1 trillion 2025 Budget into law. Fubara, in a speech after signing the bill into law today, Thursday, January 2, 2025, thanked the Victor Oko-Jumbo-led State Assembly for doing a good job, reports Channels TV. The governor insisted that the only House of As...
•Babajide Sanwo-Olu The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has signed the Lagos Electricity Bill 2024 into law. The law is a comprehensive plan aimed at addressing challenges in the energy sector and is expected to lay the foundation for economic and industrial growth in Lagos, reports The PUNCH. The governor signed the bill today, [...
•Kafilat Ogbara The 10th National Assembly is working toward legislation that would increase the representation of women in elective roles, it has emerged. The initiative is supported by a Bill of Rights within the current Constitutional Amendment review at the National Assembly, advocating for the creation of additional seats designated speci...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu, today, signed the new Minimum Wage Act into law. Tinubu signed the new law at 2 pm at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The brief ceremony was witnessed by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, and Deputy Senate President, Barau Jibrin, among others.
•Governor Ahmed Aliyu Governor Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto State has given assent to the Sokoto Local Government and Chieftaincy Law, which stripped Alhaji Sa`ad Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto, of the power to appoint district and village heads in the state. The law had generated controversy across the country as many were opposed to it, […]...
•Assistant General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Chris Onyeka The Assistant General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Chris Onyeka, said that many state governors are flouting the Minimum Wage Act because they do not believe in the sanctity of the law. Onyeka gave the position in Abuja today in an interview on minimum [&hel...
•Anambra State House of Assembly The Anambra State House of Assembly has passed a bill for a law to prohibit secret cultism and similar activities and to provide for related matters. The bill was read for the third time and passed into law by the state House today, reports The PUNCH. The executive bill underwent […]
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu, today, passed the Student Loans (Access to Higher Education) Act (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill, 2024, into law. This comes after separate considerations by both the Senate and the House of Representatives of the report of the Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund. … developing storyÂ
•Parliament of Ghana The Ghana Parliament, today, passed the bill on human sexual rights and family values, commonly referred to as the anti-LGBTQ bill. The bill, called the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, was introduced by Sam Nartey George, the MP for Ningo-Prampram. GhanaWeb reports that the bill was...
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