The National Assembly resumed plenary on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 and picked up from where it left off on July 28, when legislators proceeded on their annual recess. Senate President, Senator Ahmad Lawan, announced new Chairmen and Vice Chairmen for various Committees of the Senate, as follows: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At its resumed hearing on Wednesday, September 21,\nthe Senate screened and confirmed the nomination of Hon. Justice Olukayode\nAriwoola as Chief Justice of Nigeria. President Buhari had written to the\nSenate before it proceeded on recess seeking the confirmation of Justice\nAriwoola\u2019s nomination. The Senate is also expected to have a confirmation\nhearing for the seven persons nominated by President Buhari as Resident\nElectoral Commissioners (RECs) for the Independent National Electoral\nCommission (INEC). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The National Assembly will also need to return to the Constitution review process of the 9th<\/sup> Assembly which is yet to be concluded. It will be recalled that the National Assembly transmitted 44 out of 68 Constitution bills to the State Houses of Assembly in order to amend the 1999 Nigerian Constitution. Some key bills passed bordered on the creation of local government autonomy, provision for uniform retirement and pension rights for judicial officers, separation of the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation\/State from the Office of the Minister\/Commissioner for Justice, bills to grant the legislature power to summon the President or State Governor. Nevertheless, some bills on key issues such as State Police and women\u2019s political representation failed to pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to section 9(2) of the 1999 Nigerian\nConstitution, the bills transmitted by the National Assembly have to be\napproved by resolution of the State Houses of Assembly in at least 24 out of 36\nStates in order to be forwarded to the President for assent. The bills have\nsince been transmitted to the State Houses of Assembly for voting. The National\nAssembly is expected to receive the votes and proceedings of the various State\nHouses of Assembly which indicate their voting patterns for each of the bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The House of Representatives had also conducted a public hearing on the National Offences Commission Bill on 23rd<\/sup> August which had passed Second Reading before it proceeded on recess. Nigerians expect the House of Representatives to return to the bill and harmonise its version with that of the Senate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The National Assembly\u2019s last few days of plenary\nin July were characterised by antics to impeach the President over rising\ninsecurity. It is unclear if the National Assembly is planning to go forward\nwith any action on the impeachment threat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n With about nine months to the end of the 9th<\/sup>\nAssembly and the 2023 general elections drawing nearer, citizens are hopeful\nthat the Assembly will pass key bills and achieve its mandate of national\ndevelopment, making the lives of citizens better and delivering the benefits of\ndemocracy as stated in its legislative agendas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Assembly resumed plenary on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 and picked up from where it left off on July 28, when legislators proceeded on their annual recess. Senate President, Senator Ahmad Lawan, announced new Chairmen and Vice Chairmen for various Committees of the Senate, as follows: Senator Abdullahi Yahaya – Chairman, Committee on Agriculture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2903","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\/2903","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2910,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions\/2910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}