Quickly, it is necessary to X-ray the issue of negligence of the seventh National Assembly. The Seventh Senate on Wednesday June 3 passed 46 bills into law within 10 minutes. The bills were earlier passed by the House of Representatives in the outgoing Seventh Assembly.
How reliable are these bills? How will these bills address the needs of the Nigerian masses? Legal experts are already pointing the errors in the bills. There is no way the bills could have been okay. This brings to the fore the question, what were the Nigerian lawmakers doing that made them wait for 8 years to pass those bills?
On the Anti-rape Bill, Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Chief Femi Falana (SAN) has joined forces with nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, in urging President Muhammadu Buhari to withhold his assent to the bill, officially known as Sexual Offenses Bill.
Falana and Soyinka argue that the bill fails to provide punishment for sexual offenses against individuals older than 11 years. This is an expensive error on the part of the Seventh Assembly lawmakers. Read full story here
What do you think about this bill and other bills? Should they all be reviewed all over?
THESE ARE THE 10 IMPORTANT NEWS ITEMS THIS MORNING
More reactions have continued to trail last week’s National Assembly leadership election, with Prof. Rufai Alkali, erstwhile political adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan, declaring yesterday that the process has vindicated their stance on the All Progressive Congress (APC). –LEADERSHIP
THOSE aspiring to greatness, especially political office holders, should make humility their bedrock if they must succeed in fulfilling the great expectations of Nigerians who voted them into power, the General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said. –GUARDIAN NIGERIA
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has stressed the need for leaders of African continent to collectively work together towards eradicating poverty, disease and insecurity ravaging the peoples of the continent, especially the youth. –GUARDIAN NIGERIA
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the immediate release of $21 million (N4.2 billion) to the Multinational Joint Task Force, MNJTF. –PREMIUM TIMES NIGERIA
The Living Faith Church in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, has come to the rescue of the workers in the employ of the state government who are owed seven months salaries by providing food stuffs and financial donations for them. –THISDAYLIVE
The Leaders of Ijaw community in Bayelsa State are heading for the Supreme Court over the $1.5 billion oil spill and environmental degradation suit against Shell Petroleum Development of Nigeria, which was struck out by the Federal Appeal Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. –THISDAYLIVE
A former Special Adviser on Political Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Prof. Rufai Alkali, on Sunday said it was the All Progressives Congress leaders that would pose problem to the President Muhammadu Buhari’s adminstration. –PUNCH
NASARAWA State governor, Umaru Tanko Al – Makura, on Sunday, said that the topbrass and caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) would meet Tuesday, to take a decisive step over the National Assembly leadership tussle. –TRIBUNE
As the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day this weekend, the Federal Government of Nigeria put the country’s estimated blood need at between 1.4 to 1.7 million units yearly. –WORLDSTAGE NEWS
For the first in three months, motorists in Abuja and its environ were able to purchase premium motor spirit (petrol) without having to queue for long hours. –DAILY INDEPENDENT