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 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Convener, Concerned Nigerians, Deji Adeyanju, has rejected plans by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to censor usage of the social media in the country. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had on Tuesday said there was no going back on plans by the administration to regulate activities on social media in…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bill to increase Value Added Tax (VAT) from 5% to 7.5% has passed through second reading in the Senate. The VAT Bill was read the first the time on Tuesday, November 5, and now passed through second reading. The process was not without controversy as the senators could not get a…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A bill seeking to regulate social media in the country has passed first reading at the senate. The bill entitled, ‘protection from internet falsehood and manipulations bill, 2019’ is sponsored by Mohammed Sani Musa, senator representing Niger east. The proposed legislation was one of the 11 bills read for the first time…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Non Governmental Organization, NGO, ActionAid Nigeria, AAN, has called for the scrapping of the Senate or the House of Representatives to cut the cost of governance and save money for infrastructural development. The organization also recommended a slash of salaries of all lawmakers and political office holders to enable government save…
LAGOS OCTOBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday asked the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency on federal roads due to their deplorable conditions across the country. The move followed a motion by Senator Geshom Bassey, who called the attention of his colleagues in the upper arm of the National…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A continental railway advocacy group, African Railway Roundtable has called on the new leadership of Nigerian National Assembly to immediately revive and accelerate the passage of the Nigerian railway law reform bill which seeks to amend the out dated 1955 law establishing and regulating the Nigerian Railway Corporation. The group which made…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate on Thursday rejected a motion seeking its nod to debate the speech delivered by President Muhammadu Buhari on the Democracy Day. But the opposition parties led by the Peoples Democratic Party and the Campaign for Democracy have faulted the All Progressives Congress-dominated Senate‘s action. They said it was a bad…