Views: Visits 3 A legal firm, Alpha and Rohi, has called for the extension of retirement age of the clerk to the National Assembly (NASS). The legal body also sought an extension of service year and retirement age of staff members of the National Assembly and National Assembly Service Commission. Mr Adeola Adedipe, Managing Partner in the legal office delivered the position paper of the group at the Zonal Public Hearing on the Proposed Alteration to the Provisions of the 1999 Constitution held in Enugu. The group’s position was also pushed at Akure, Kaduna, Port Hacourt, Minna and Bauchi centres of the 2-day public hearing.
The Lagos State House of Assembly has promised to transmit a petition from a coalition of civil society groups that recently organised a National Day of Mourning to the Federal Government and the National Assembly.
If you have been watching the raid on drug barons, couriers and syndicates in recent weeks, you cannot have missed the decidedly resonant indicators of a new direction in Nigeria’s anti-drug war.
By Olasunkanmi Akoni
A bill seeking to repeal the law which grants pension and other emoluments to former governors and deputies has scaled second reading at the Lagos State House of Assembly.
The ex-governors of the state who are presently benefitting from the jumbo pension include Bola Tinubu, Babatunde Fashola, and Akinwumi Ambode.
The new bill which was debated on the floor of the House at a sitting presided over by the Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, is titled: ‘A Bill for a law to repeal the law to provide for the payment of pensions and other fringe benefits to public office holders in Lagos State and for other connected matters’.
Lagos Assembly asks Buhari to address nation A country cannot be drifting this way and the President is quiet. The President must address this country and assuage nerves. 3 min read
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly resumed from the Sallah break on Tuesday with a call on
President Muhammadu Buhari to address the nation over issues relating to insecurity and rising sectional agitations across the country.
The House also said it was standing by the decisions reached by the southern governors at their recent meeting in Asaba, Delta State.
Calling the attention of his colleagues to the communique released by the governors after the meeting, the Deputy Leader of the House, Noheem Adams, noted that the Lagos Assembly had always called for the establishment of state police.