Akinola Ajibola
Updated December 17, 2020
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, with some of his colleagues at the upper chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja on December 17, 2020.
A bill for an act to provide for the effective surveillance, review, and prevention of maternal and perinatal deaths and related matters for the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2020 (SB. 581) has scaled the second reading in the Senate.
The bill and six others were read for the second time on Thursday during plenary at the upper chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja.
Sponsored by the Senate Committee Chairman on Health, Senator Yahaya Oloriegbe, the bill proposes to introduce a surveillance system to track maternal mortalities in the country and identify the direct and indirect factors responsible for the deaths.
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The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, with some of his colleagues at the upper chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja on December 17, 2020.
A bill for an act to provide for the effective surveillance, review, and prevention of maternal and perinatal deaths and related matters for the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2020 (SB. 581) has scaled the second reading in the Senate.
The bill and six others were read for the second time on Thursday during plenary at the upper chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja.
Sponsored by the Senate Committee Chairman on Health, Senator Yahaya Oloriegbe, the bill proposes to introduce a surveillance system to track maternal mortalities in the country and identify the direct and indirect factors responsible for the deaths.
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New York State Senator Betty Little has been serving in the legislature for 25 years. In 1995, the Republican won a special election to the state Assembly and in 2002 she won the state Senate seat that opened with the retirement of Senator Ronald Stafford. A year ago, she announced that she would retire at the end of this term December 31st. As she approaches the end of her public service, the 80-year-old Little tells WAMC North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley she has no regrets about her decision to retire.
“You know, I ve been in the Senate and the Assembly now for 25 years. And I said that I would not be there when I turned 80 and I had my 80th birthday in September. So you know you never know what s ahead of you when you re 80. But I ve seen too many people dozing off during session in Chamber because they were older and it was not going to be me. And you know there are things I d like to do mostly travel and I m hopeful that this will end so we can travel and d