President Muhammadu Buhari has
signed eight bills into law. The Senior Special Assistant to
the President on National Assembly matters (Senate), Ita Enang, briefed State
House correspondents on Friday.
Prominent among the bills signed into law is the Legislative Houses (Power and Privileges), Act 2018. The Act grants members of Legislative Houses in the National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly immunity from litigation for actions taken in plenary or committee proceedings of the House or committee.
According to Enang, the law is
meant to strengthen the power of the legislators to carry out their legislative
functions.
The powers include powers to
summon any person to appear before her, give evidence, including power of an
officer of the legislative House to arrest any person who commits an offence
against the Act.
Another bill signed into law was
the National Institute of Legislative Studies (Amendment) Act, 2018. Another
law the President assented to was the National Senior Citizens Centre Act,
2018.
The Act establishes the National
Senior Citizens Centre in the country to cater for the needs of senior
citizens.
Others are Avoidance of Double
Taxation Agreement between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Kingdom of
Spain (Domestication and Enforcement ) Act, 2018; Rail Loan (International
Bank) (Repeal) Act, 2018, Chartered Institute of Project Managers of Nigeria
(Establishment) Act, 2018, Chartered Institute of Local Government and Public
Administration Act, 2018 and Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service
(Establishment), Act, 2018.
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