For three consecutive inauguration sessions, Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) has provided support to the National Assembly in its induction programmes to train Members-elect of the Senate and House of Representatives. The support is funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) of the United Kingdom. For nearly 15 years, PLAC has worked in the National Assembly, supporting the development of the legislative arm of government, pursuing the expansion of civic space and impacting on improvements in the quality of the Legislature. The induction is one of several activities carried out by PLAC in its legislative work. Some other activities implemented by PLAC include support to National Assembly Committees, bill drafting, legislative staff training and training for law makers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
PLAC\nplayed a critical role supporting the first ever alteration to the Nigerian\nConstitution in 2010. In 2022, the National Assembly passed the landmark\nElectoral Act intended to achieve credible elections for the country. This was\ndone with PLAC providing the draft and drafting skills for the Act and\nconvincing the National Assembly to pass a brand new Electoral Act rather than\namending the old one. The first ever new legislation on Police in the country\nresulted from PLAC\u2019s redraft of the 1943 Police Act in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
PLAC\u2019s\nwork in the National Assembly was aptly captured by the Clerk of the National\nAssembly, Sani Magaji Tambuwal in his opening speech at the induction\nprogramme, where he stated that the history of the National Assembly cannot be\ncomplete without mentioning PLAC\u2019s work and support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the 10th<\/sup> Assembly gets set to be inaugurated on June 13, PLAC is set to deepen its work\u00a0 and expand its effectiveness in Nigeria\u2019s legislative development. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For three consecutive inauguration sessions, Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) has provided support to the National Assembly in its induction programmes to train Members-elect of the Senate and House of Representatives. The support is funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) of the United Kingdom. For nearly 15 years, PLAC has worked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3244","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\/3244","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=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3248,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions\/3248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}