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…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Majority of Nigerian senators yesterday voted against a motion to debate President Muhammadu Buhari’s Democracy Day speech in plenary. The motion to scrutinise the speech was moved by Istifanus Gyang, Plateau, PDP. Coming under Order 52 of the Senate standing order, Gyang asked his colleagues, through the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, to…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has warned President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), against muzzling the legislature and the other arms of the government. Prince Secondus speaking against the backdrop of the obvious direct involvement of the President and his party…
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…