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Bill To Criminalise Casualisation Of Workers In Nigeria Passes 2nd Reading

LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Bill for an Act to amend the Labour Act to criminalise casualisation of workers after six months of engagement by employers in Nigeria on Tuesday passed second reading in the House of Representatives. The bill which seeks to prohibit engagement of casual workers beyond six months and outsourcing employment in core […]

Mar 3 2020 | Posted in National | Read More »

FG To Fund Repentant Boko Haram Members For Foreign Education

LAGOS FEBRUARY 29TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Should ‘A Bill for the Establishment of the National Agency for the Education, Rehabilitation, De-radicalisation and Integration of Repentant Insurgents in Nigeria and for Other Connected Purposes’, be signed into law, repentant Boko Haram members will be funded to get foreign education. “The agency shall implement programmes geared towards the rehabilitation of […]

Feb 29 2020 | Posted in National | Read More »

Kenyan Single Women Celebrate As President Legalises Polygamy

LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta has signed into law a controversial bill that legalizes polygamy. But after this was done in Kenya, something dramatic happened next. The women association in Kenya took to the streets to celebrate President Kenyatta legalizing polygamy much to the surprise of many. Remember that the Kenyan women […]

Feb 28 2020 | Posted in International,National | Read More »

Nigerians React To Senate Bill For ‘Repentant’ Boko Haram Terrorists

LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A fresh crisis looms in the country as stakeholders yesterday rejected a move by the Senate to establish an agency to make life comfortable for ‘repentant’ Boko Haram terrorists irrespective of their wanton destruction of lives and property. Specifically, ignoring persistent public outcry against the release of the suspected insurgents, the Senate […]

Feb 21 2020 | Posted in National | Read More »

Nigeria Senate Introduces Bill For Creation Of Agency For Repentant Boko Haram Members

LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate on Thursday began moves to establish an agency that would see to the rehabilitation, deradicalisation and integration of repentant insurgents in the country. A bill, sponsored by Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe East senatorial district, was read for the first time on the floor of the Senate Thursday. Already a subject […]

Feb 20 2020 | Posted in National | Read More »

Hate Speech Offenders To ‘Die By Hanging’ Bill Re-Emerges In Nigeria Senate

LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Bill to Establish a Commission for the Prohibition of Hate Speeches on Tuesday bounced back in the Senate. The Bill titled, “National Commission for the Prohibition of Hate Speeches (Est, etc) Bill, 2019(SB.154) and sponsored by the Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, All Progressives Congress, APC, […]

Nov 13 2019 | Posted in National | Read More »

VAT Hike: Senators Threaten Showdown With Federal Government

LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Some senators have vowed to shoot down the Finance Act (amendment) Bill seeking incremental changes to Nigeria’s tax and fiscal law, which passed second reading on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday. Specifically, they said they would mobilise stakeholders to reject the bill during public hearing. The majority of the […]

Nov 10 2019 | Posted in National | Read More »

Uganda Plans Bill Imposing Death Penalty For Homosexual

LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Uganda announced plans on Thursday for a bill that would impose the death penalty on homosexuals, saying the legislation would curb a rise in unnatural sex in the east African nation. The bill – colloquially known as “Kill the Gays” in Uganda – was nullified five years ago on a technicality and […]

Oct 11 2019 | Posted in National | Read More »

Senate Passes Redrafted Petroleum Industrial Governance Bill For Buhari’s Assent

PIB, PIG Bill LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate, on Thursday, passed the redrafted version of the Petroleum Industry Governance (PIG) Bill 2019. The passage followed the Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan’s reintroduction of the redrafted bill at a plenary presided over by Senate President Bukola Saraki in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that […]

May 23 2019 | Posted in National | Read More »

Buhari Assents To Bill Stopping NYSC From Posting Engineering Graduates To Schools

LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja assented to Engineers (Registration etc) Amendment Bill, 2019, which among others, bars the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) from henceforth, posting graduates of engineering to secondary schools to teach. The bill which has now become the Act of the National Assembly seeks to promote technological development in […]

Mar 22 2019 | Posted in National | Read More »