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Issues The Senate Will Discuss When Plenary Opens On Tuesday

Issues that will top deliberations when the Senate opens plenary on Tuesday will be the rising unemployment in Nigeria, congestion of Nigeria’s prisons and the recognition … Continue reading Issues The Senate Will Discuss When Plenary Opens On Tuesday


senateIssues that will top deliberations when the Senate opens plenary on Tuesday will be the rising unemployment in Nigeria, congestion of Nigeria’s prisons and the recognition of Kogi and Anambra State as oil producing states.

According to the Senate’s Notice Paper for this week, a motion entitled “Intolerable upswing of unemployment in Nigeria” would be considered, with a view to curbing the trend.

Sponsored by the lawmaker representing Ekiti North, Senator Duro Faseyi, the motion would specifically call on the nations’s security outfits to engage more Nigerian youths as a veritable means of reducing unemployment and boosting security across the country.

Other motions to be considered are provision of medical attention for critical condition victims and the need to determine the status of 90 billion Naira dividends in securities for Nigeria investors.

Others include urgent need to investigate special funds accrued to the Federation, as provided by the Revenue Allocation Act, 2004 and the rehabilitation of prison inmates through agricultural training programmes run by the Nigerian Prison Service.

Also slated for consideration during the week are the Bills for an Act to provide for the Governance, and Institutional Framework for the Petroleum Industry, popularly referred to as the PIB, Establishment of the Public Private Partnership Regulatory Commission, the Customs Act (Repeal and Re-enactment) Bill and a Bill for an Act to repeal the Foreign Exchange (Monitoring and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act.

The notice paper further showed that the Senate would discuss the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Act (Amendment) Bill, 2016, the 2017-2019 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP), and a Bill to provide for Establishment of Federal Entrepreneurship Centres at Local Government Areas.

A cursory look at the activities of the Senate this week shows that the Red Chamber is poised to speedily pass critical bills with bearing on the economy and other social challenges – like unemployment, confronting the country.

Last week, the senate gave huge consideration of a bill that prescribed a five-year jail term and five million Naira fine for any one found guilty of harassing any tertiary institution’s student sexually.

The Sexual Harassment Bill passed its third reading at the Senate last week, with most lawmakers saying it is a critical bill needed to end the rise in cases of sexual harassment in Nigeria’s higher institutions.