{"id":1053,"date":"2019-07-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/senate-receives-report-from-its-adhoc-committee-on-legislative-agenda\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T02:37:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T02:37:58","slug":"senate-receives-report-from-its-adhoc-committee-on-legislative-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/senate-receives-report-from-its-adhoc-committee-on-legislative-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Receives Report From Its Adhoc Committee on Legislative Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ad-hoc Committee set up to prepare a Legislative Agenda for the 9<sup>th<\/sup> Senate (2019-2023) presented its report in the Senate on Thursday 18 July, 2019. While deliberations of the report will be examined at a future date, the Committee had been directed to develop a Legislative Agenda to aid development and improve the living standard of Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee\u2019s report is expected to recommend solutions to some of the country\u2019s ailing challenges such as insecurity, health and unemployment. It had also been mandated to advocate means of improving current outcomes in agriculture, infrastructural development and the economy for adoption.<\/p>\n<p>PLAC had met with the Committee and made inputs into the Legislative Agenda. This will be the second time that an Ad-hoc Committee on Legislative Agenda is inaugurated in the Senate. \u00a0The 8<sup>th<\/sup> Senate supported by Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) and the British Department of International Development (DFID) had supported the initiative at the start of that Assembly in 2015 and had worked with the House of Representatives in the 7<sup>th<\/sup> Assembly to pioneer the initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ad-hoc Committee set up to prepare a Legislative Agenda for the 9th Senate (2019-2023) presented its report in the Senate on Thursday 18 July, 2019. While deliberations of the report will be examined at a future date, the Committee had been directed to develop a Legislative Agenda to aid development and improve the living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}