The Governor of Lagos, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has signed the Lagos Electricity Bill 2024 into law. The law is a comprehensive plan aimed at addressing challenges in the energy sector and is expected to lay the foundation for economic and industrial growth in Lagos. The governor signed the bill on Tuesday at the Lagos House, Ikeja. “The bill is a major …

President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, signed the Student Loans (Access to Higher Education) Act (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill, 2024, into law. This comes after separate considerations by both the Senate and the House of Representatives of the report of the Committee on Tertiary Institutions and Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). At the brief ceremony, President Tinubu said that the main …

President Bola Tinubu has signed the N28.7 trillion 2024 Appropriation Bill into law, keeping with his avowed commitment to maintain a timeous, predictable, and efficient budget cycle. Shortly after returning to Abuja from Lagos on Monday from a week-long holiday, the President assented to the Appropriation Bill at a brief ceremony at the Presidential Villa. Present at the ceremony were …

The Executive Governor of Taraba State, Lt. Colonel Agbu Kefas (rtd.) has signed into law the supplementary budget of over N206 billion. This, as observed by our reporter, came a few hours after the supplementary budget was unanimously passed into law by members of the state House of Assembly. Signing the bill into law today, he promised to judiciously use …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday assented to eight Bills passed by the ninth National Assembly. In a statement in Abuja, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Babajide Omoworare said the President’s action was in accordance with the provisions of the Acts Authentication Act Cap. A2, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004. He …

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the National Mental Health Bill 2021 into law, marking a major milestone in Nigeria’s efforts to improve support for psychosocial wellbeing. The new Mental Health Bill is the first legislative reform adopted in the field since independence. The regulation assented to last Thursday, establishes human rights protections for those with mental health conditions, such as …