The National Assembly deferred substantive legislative business on Tuesday, 27 January 2026, as it resumed plenary sittings after its extended end-of-year recess, in order to honour two serving senators who passed away during the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both chambers devoted the day\u2019s proceedings to solemn\nobservances in memory of Godiya Akwashiki<\/strong>, who represented Nasarawa\nNorth Senatorial District, Nasarawa State, and Okechukwu Ezea<\/strong>, who\nrepresented Enugu North Senatorial District. The tributes underscored the\nlegislature\u2019s respect for parliamentary tradition, collegiality, and\ninstitutional memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the sitting, the presiding officers of both chambers\nformally announced the deaths of the lawmakers and led tributes highlighting\ntheir service to the nation and their respective constituencies. Moments of\nsilence were observed in honour of the departed senators, acknowledging their\ncontributions and sacrifices in the course of public service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leadership of the National Assembly emphasised that\npaying tribute to serving members who pass away while in office is an integral\npart of parliamentary culture and a long-standing legislative convention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In line with established parliamentary procedure, all items\nlisted on the Order Paper for the day\u2014including bills, motions, petitions, and\nother plenary business\u2014were formally stepped down. The leadership of both\nchambers assured members and the public that the deferred legislative items\nwould be re-listed and taken up at subsequent sittings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Full legislative business was then scheduled to resume on\nWednesday, 28 January 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Assembly deferred substantive legislative business on Tuesday, 27 January 2026, as it resumed plenary sittings after its extended end-of-year recess, in order to honour two serving senators who passed away during the period. Both chambers devoted the day\u2019s proceedings to solemn observances in memory of Godiya Akwashiki, who represented Nasarawa North Senatorial District, Nasarawa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3963","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\/3963","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=3963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3968,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions\/3968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}