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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…