LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas “to immediately withdraw the repressive bill for an act to amend the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, which seeks to regulate the activities of bloggers operating within the ‘territorial boundaries…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives on Thursday passed for second reading a bill seeking to bar individuals above 60 years from contesting for the offices of President and Governor in Nigeria. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Ikeagwuonu Ugochinyere, proposes amendments to the 1999 Constitution to revise eligibility requirements for these key political positions….
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A bill seeking to amend the 1999 Constitution to transfer control of natural resources, including oil fields, minerals, and natural gas, from the federal government to states has scaled second reading in the House of Representatives. The proposed legislation aims to restructure Nigeria’s resource governance framework, granting states greater autonomy over the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives Committee on Constitution review is considering a bill to amend the 1999 Constitution to limit the number of ministers appointed by the president to 37. Titled, “A Bill for an Act to Amend the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 to Streamline the Number of Ministers…
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The North-West, South-West and South-South geo-political zones of the country may not field a presidential candidate in the 2027 general election if ongoing moves to alter relevant provisions of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) scales through. Sunday PUNCH exclusively gathered that a bill “For an Act to alter the provisions of the…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghana’s parliament on Friday passed a bill to protect people accused of witchcraft, making it a crime to abuse them or send them away from communities. The new law was suggested after a 90-year-old woman was lynched in Kafaba in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region in July 2020, drawing…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-NIGERIA’s health sector may be heading for another round of crisis as the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has vowed to ensure a House of Representatives bill seeking to deny doctors full licence until they have worked in Nigeria for five years after graduation does not sail through. On Thursday, April 6, the…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The bill to establish the Federal University of Transportation, Daura, Katsina State as a training institution for the development of transportation engineering, logistics and other courses of interest that will support post-modern transportation industry has been assented into law by President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR. The bill was passed by the Senate on…