November 2021 - OrderPaper

OrderPaperToday – Like its predecessors, the 9th National Assembly has been on the process of reviewing the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) with some level of citizens engagement. The process has been through zonal public hearings and a national town hall where the views of Nigerians were harvested. However, Nigerians have continued to ventilate and identify priority areas they want amended in the constitution. And this is expected to continue as long...

OrderPaper Today – Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has called for collaboration between the National Assembly and the 36 State Houses of Assembly to make the ongoing review of the 1999 Constitution successful. In a statement signed by Mr. Lanre Lasisi, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Speaker, Gbajabiamila spoke at a meeting of the Conference of Presiding Officers of Nigerian Legislatures (COPON) in Abuja at the weekend. He stated that the...

OrderPaperToday – The imperative of permeating the tenets of fiscal responsibility and prudent management of resources to the sub-national levels of government formed the principal output of a two days sensitization workshop put together for stakeholders in the South-west geopolitical zone of the country. The workshop was  as part of its on-going strategic plans to sensitize critical stakeholders in different parts of the country to buy into the fiscal responsibility initiative particularly by the Sub-National Governments....

OrderPaperToday – Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has said issues of gender balancing and care for Persons Living with Disabilities (PLWDs) is being addressed in the ongoing amendments to the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria. This, he said would give equal participation in governance to both men and women as well as PLWDs. Gbajabiamila spoke in Abuja on Wednesday when he played host to a delegation from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) at the National Assembly....

OrderPaperToday – The Senate has waded into the crisis rocking the Plateau State House of Assembly. This was sequel to a motion sponsored by Sen. Istifanus Gyang (PDP, Plateau) who asked the Senate sought to uphold the legislature’s independence as an arm of government and set aside the impeachment of the assembly’s speaker. The motion, entitled “Disruption of Legislative Business in Plateau State House of Assembly: Need for early intervention by the Senate to avoid deterioration,”...

OrderPaperToday – The Senate has passed the electoral bill to empower the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to determine the procedure for voting and transmission of results during an election. The development followed the consideration of the report of the Harmonization Conference Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2021. Recall that the Senate President Ahmad Lawan, on October 13, 2021, constituted a seven-man conference committee to meet with their...

OrderPaperToday – The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, said he reconciled former Head of State Ibrahim Babangida and President General Muhammadu Buhari in 2005. The former governor of Abia State said this on Friday while reacting to comments about the picture of the meeting he posted on his Facebook page on Thursday.  Sen. Orji mentioned that he organised a meeting in his Igbere country home in 2005 in Abia State to reconcile both parties. He...