OrderPaperToday – The House of Representatives has condemned, in the strongest terms, the creeping of resurgence of military coups in West Africa. Consequently, the House urged the federal government to strongly condemn the coups, impose strong sanctions, and mobilise other nations and stakeholders to impose very extensive sanctions. The motion was sponsored by Prof. Julius Ihonvbere (APC, Edo) came by way public national importance at plenary on Wednesday. Raising the motion, Ihonvbere noted, with high apprehension,...
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OrderPaperToday – The House of Representatives ad-hoc Committee on Constitution Review has adopted a proposal seeking for the creation of 111 additional legislative seats in the National Assembly to be occupied solely by women beginning from the next general election. The House Committee also recommended the creation of two additional seats per senatorial zone reserve for women in state Houses of Assembly and the FCT. Meanwhile, a proposition to create state police suffered another setback after...
OrderPaperToday – The House of Representatives has tasked the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment to urgently develop a comprehensive template for the establishment of industries across the federation so as to create jobs for 11 million unemployed youths. This resolution was sequel to a motion adopted at Wednesday plenary on: ‘Urgent Need to Combat Unemployment and Social Vices through Establishment of Industries Across the Federation’, sponsored by Chinedu Martins (PDP, Imo). Leading the debate,...
OrderPaperToday – The House of Representatives on Wednesday adopted a motion which emphasized the need to increase funding for innovation and technology in tertiary institutions in Nigeria. The House also urged the federal government to adequately fund institutions involved in research and innovation and that the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC) should design a workable plan on how to produce electric cars in commercial quantities in Nigeria, using homegrown human capital. The House mandated...
OrderPaperToday – The House of Representatives has made a U-turn and walked back on its earlier passage of the electoral act (amendment) bill by giving political parties the option to adopt either direct, indirect primaries and consensus modes of conducting primaries. Like the Senate, the House also made amendments to clause 84 paragraph 9 (a) which it said takes care of fears of the optional modes being hijacked by a few individuals in political parties in...
OrderPaperToday – The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the Senate will not override the President but will rather expeditiously look into the issues that would be raised by lawmakers after consultations with constituents on the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021. Lawan stated this in his welcome speech to senators who just resumed from the Christmas and New Year recess on Tuesday. The Senate had earlier entered a closed-door session which lasted for...
OrderPaperToday – To be or not to be? This was the option placed before Nigerians on Twitter via poll conducted on whether Nigeria should implement state police in order to combat sub-national security threats and consolidate existing policing structure in Nigeria. Recall that OrderPaper Nigeria has been implementing a signature project on the constitution review exercise by the National Assembly, titled OPEN- OrderPaper Parliamentary Engagement Nigeria (OPEN) during which state police featured. In the first OPEN conversation, tagged...
OrderPaperToday – The three senators from Zamfara state shared only one motion and presented no petitions in the first two years of the 9th senate. The lone motion was sponsored by Sen. Ya’u Sahabi (APC, Zamfara North), a ranking member of who has been a serving member of the National Assembly since 2007. Sahabi in his motion addressed the need to check illegal mining activities in the country. Sahabi admonished the federal government “to develop...
OrderPaperToday – Terseer Mark Gbillah is the member representing Gwer East/Gwer West federal constituency under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the House of Representatives. Mr. Ghillah is a ranking member of parliament. He was elected into the House in 2015 to represent his constituents and has served in several committees since then. He is the current Deputy Chairman of Committee of Petroleum Resources (Downstream). Following records, his legislative priorities are geared towards...
OrderPaperToday – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Authority of Heads of State and Government has resolved to uphold the initial sanctions imposed on Mali and with additional economic and financial sanctions following the rejection of the proposed new calendar scheduling the conduct of presidential elections. The ECOWAS Authority also faulted the Mali transition committee for lack of political will to return the country to democratic civilian rule. A communiqué issued at the end...