New President, Governors To Form Cabinet Within 60 Days As President Buhari Signs New Bills Into Law In Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law a bill that mandates new President and new governors to make cabinet nominations for ‘confirmation hearing’ by the Senate and the State House of Assembly respectively within 60 days after taking the oath of office.
He has also assented to the State House of Assembly and State Judiciary financial autonomy bills and seventeen other bills.
This was done in line with Section 58 (4) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (Senate), former Senator Babajide Omoworare, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, noted that the assented Constitutional Alteration Bills, among others, will ensure financial independence of legislature at the state level and State Judiciary; regulate the first session and inauguration of members-elect of the National and State Houses of Assembly and for related matters.
‘Others are to ensure that the President and governors submit the names of persons nominated as ministers or commissioners within 60 days of taking the oath of office for confirmation hearing by the Senate or State House of Assembly; and for related matters; enabling states to generate, transmit, and distribute electricity in areas covered by the national grid; and for related matters.
Excluding the period of intervening events in the computation of time for determining pre-election matters petitions, etc; regulating the first session and inauguration of members-elect of the national and state assemblies; changing prisons to correctional service and re-designating correctional service in the concurrent list; and moving item ‘railway’ from the exclusive legislative list to the concurrent list.
The President also assented to three other bills: The Nigerian Institute of Leather and Science Technology Act, The Nigerian Institute of International Relations Act, and The Federal Medical Centres (Amendment) Acts’ the statement said-Team@orientactualmags.com
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