{"id":3702,"date":"2025-01-20T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2025-01-20T11:33:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T11:33:58","slug":"house-of-representatives-creates-committees-increases-friendship-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/house-of-representatives-creates-committees-increases-friendship-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Representatives Creates Committees, Increases Friendship Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The House of Reps has again increased the number of its Committees from 177 to 199. This follows from the creation of additional Committees by the Speaker of the House of Representatives just before the House\u2019s recess in December 2024. The new Committees are in the special category of what is described as \u201cFriendship Groups.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new Friendship Groups or Committees are Parliamentary Friendship Groups which are also regarded as Committees in the House. According to the Speaker, with these new Parliamentary Friendship Committees, every member of the House will now head or be deputy in a Committee. The House of Representatives has a membership of 360 legislators. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\nis however the concern that continually increasing the number of committees in\nthe National Assembly, may be counterproductive as the unwieldy number of\ncommittees may constitute a hindrance to the efficiency of the National\nAssembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nthe United States Congress, there are about 45 committees, depending on the\nnumber of active special\/select committees at any given time and Committees\nof Congress are established based on\nconstitutional authority, rules of each chambers, and\nresolutions or laws. There are 20 standing committees in the United States\nHouse of Representatives, while the Senate is made up of 16 standing\ncommittees. Each chamber has at most 5 select or special committees in addition\nto 4 permanent joint committees consisting of members from both chambers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On\nthe other hand, in the UK Parliament, Committees which are an essential part of\nthe legislative process are created to oversee government departments. The\nHouse of Commons has 21 select committees and in total, the UK Parliament has\nabout 60 active committees per parliamentary session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initially,\nCommittees were created in the National Assembly to correspond with the number\nof Ministries or relevant Departments and Agencies of the executive. This kept\nthe duplication of responsibilities low among the Committees. This has however\nchanged over the years, with existing standing committees now split into\nmultiple number of committees in order to spread the chairmanship and deputy of\ncommittees to NASS members for patronage purposes and to satisfy loyal\nsupporters. The effect is the increasing clash in the responsibility of\noversight by the conflicting Committees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Parliamentary Friendship Groups created are as\nfollows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Nigeria \u2013 Belize Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  2. Nigeria \u2013 Turkey Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  3. Nigeria \u2013 Bulgaria Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  4. Nigeria \u2013 France Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  5. Nigeria \u2013 Hungary Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  6. Nigeria \u2013 Thailand Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  7. Nigeria \u2013 Morocco Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  8. Nigeria \u2013 Venezuela Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  9. Nigeria \u2013 Netherlands Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  10. Nigeria \u2013 Philippines Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  11. Nigeria \u2013 Finland Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  12. Nigeria \u2013 Tunisia Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  13. Nigeria \u2013 Romania Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  14. Nigeria \u2013 United States of America Parliamentary\nFriendship Group<\/li>
  15. Nigeria \u2013 Russia Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  16. Nigeria \u2013 European Union Parliamentary Friendship\nGroup<\/li>
  17. Nigeria \u2013 Bangladesh Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  18. Nigeria \u2013 Pakistan Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  19. Nigeria \u2013 United Arab Emirates Parliamentary\nFriendship Group<\/li>
  20. Nigeria \u2013 South-Korea Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  21. Nigeria \u2013 Lebanon Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  22. Nigeria \u2013 Libya Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  23. Nigeria \u2013 Spain Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  24. Nigeria \u2013 United Kingdom Parliamentary Friendship\nGroup<\/li>
  25. Nigeria \u2013 Japan Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  26. Nigeria \u2013 Italy Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  27. Nigeria \u2013 China Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  28. Nigeria \u2013 Mexico Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  29. Nigeria \u2013 Saudi Arabia Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  30. Nigeria \u2013 Israel Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  31. Nigeria \u2013 Brazil Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  32. Nigeria \u2013 Singapore Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  33. Nigeria \u2013 Ireland Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  34. Nigeria \u2013 Canada Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  35. Nigeria \u2013 Switzerland Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  36. Nigeria \u2013 Pakistan Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  37. Nigeria \u2013 Qatar Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  38. Nigeria \u2013 Portugal Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  39. Nigeria \u2013 Sweden Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  40. Nigeria \u2013 Belgium Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  41. Nigeria \u2013 Austria Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  42. Nigeria \u2013 Australia Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  43. Nigeria \u2013 Malaysia Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  44. Nigeria \u2013 Greece Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  45. Nigeria \u2013 Poland Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  46. Nigeria \u2013 Bulgaria Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  47. Nigeria \u2013 New Zealand Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  48. Nigeria \u2013 Kuwait Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  49. Nigeria \u2013 Cuba Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  50. Nigeria \u2013 Caribbean Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  51. Nigeria \u2013 West Africa Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  52. Nigeria \u2013 East Africa Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  53. Nigeria \u2013 Central Africa Parliamentary Friendship\nGroup<\/li>
  54. Nigeria \u2013 South Africa Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  55. Nigeria \u2013 North Africa Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li>
  56. Nigeria \u2013 Indonesia Parliamentary Friendship Group<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The House of Reps has again increased the number of its Committees from 177 to 199. This follows from the creation of additional Committees by the Speaker of the House of Representatives just before the House\u2019s recess in December 2024. The new Committees are in the special category of what is described as \u201cFriendship Groups.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3702","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\/3702","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=3702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3720,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions\/3720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}