President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday signed a law to check the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. The chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, disclosed this while handing over five ambulances donated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to the Federal Ministry of Health on Wednesday in Abuja. Mustapha said that the bill, titled COVID-19 Health Protection Regulations 2021, is an exercise of the powers as conferred on the president by Section 4 of the Quarantine Act. The regulations enforce…
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NASS supports law on effective policing system – Gbajabiamila
Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has reiterated commitment of the House to enact a law that would ensure effective policing system in the country. Gbajabiamila said this at the legislative agenda public policy dialogue series with the theme policing and human rights in Nigeria, on Wednesday in Abuja. He said that police reform had been the burden of the 9th legislative agenda, adding that it was meant to take off early in the year but derailed by the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. Gbajabiamila said that without…
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