Yesterday the strangest thing happened when the Nigerian Senate passed a record 46 bills into law in just 10 minutes.

The bills were introduced by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Senator Ita Enang and all 46 of them had been recently passed by the lower House of Representatives.

The Senate’s decision to pass the bills was predicated on the fact that the life of the current assembly is expected to expire in a few days time and that enough resources had already been expended in processing the bills, hence there was the need to pass them and forward same to the President for his assent.

According to Enang, the “bills by this resolution are hereby read and deemed read a third time and passed, to be transmitted to the President for assent in accordance with the Acts (Authentication) Act, and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999.

“That the votes and proceedings containing all bills be produced for adoption, as passed by the House.”

Not everyone accepted the fast track.

Some senators led by Senator Domingo Obende, Edo State, and George Sekibo, Rivers State, opposed the passage of the bills in less than ten minutes.

The Senate President asked them to write their names and signature when the house became too rowdy and efforts to calm them failed.

Here are the 46 bills passed by the senate:

1. Tertiary Education Trust Fund (Establishment etc) Act (Amendment), 2015;

2. Office of the Nigerian Financial Ombudsman Bill;

3. Institute of Chartered Trustees of Nigeria Bill;

4. National Convicts and Criminal Records (Registry) Bill, 2015;

5. Community Service Bill;

6. People’s Bank of Nigeria Act (Repeal) Bill

7. Nigerian Bank for Commerce and Industry Act (Repeal).

8. National Commission for Rehabilitation Act (Repeal) Bill;

9. Maintenance Orders Act (Repeal) Bill, 2015;

10. Federal Saving Bank Act (Repeal) Bill 2015;

11. Loan (State Development) Act (Repeal), 2015;

12. Nigerians in Diaspora (Establishment) Commission, 2015;

13. Electronic Transactions Bill, 2015;

14. Chartered Institute of Statiscians of Nigeria, 2015

15. Nigerian Metallurgical Industry Bill, 2014,

16. Federal Audit Commission Bill, 2015,

17. National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation Act (Amendment,) Bill,

18. Nigerian International Financial Centre (Establishment, etc) Bill,

19. Investment and Securities (Amendment) Bill

20. Nigerian Communications Satellite, Bill,

21. Federal Capital Territory Education Resources Centre (Establishment) Bill;

22. Labour Institutions (Establishment);

23. Witness Protection Programme Bill;

24. Institute of Mediators and Conciliators Bill;

25. Legal Education Act (Establishment) Bill;

26. National Health Insurance Commission Bill;

27. National Economic Intelligence Committee (Establishment) Act (Repeal) Bill.

28.Federal College Dental Technology and Therapy Bill,

29. Federal Capital Territory College of Nursing and Midwifery Bill,

30. Oaths Act (Amendment) Bill,

31. Federal Capital Territory Hospital Management Board (Establishment) Bill,

32. Passport (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Bill,

33. Chartered Institute of Management Accounts of Nigeria

34. Federal Capital Territory Water Board (Establishment) Bill,

35. Institute of Local Government and Public Administration Bill,

36. Whistle-blower Protection Bill,

37. Family Economic Advancement Programme (Establishment, etc) 2015,

38. Family Support Trust Fund Act (Repeal) Bill,

39. Nigerian Industrial Development Bank (Guarantee) Act (Repeal) Bill,

40. Treasury Management Bill 2015;

41. Legislative Powers and Privileges Act (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill,

42. Anti-Torture Bill, 2015;

43. Lobbyist (Registration and Regulation) Bill,

44. National Hospital for Women and Children, Abuja (Establishment, etc) Act (Amendment) Bill,

45. Nigerian Prisons Act CAP, P29 LFN 2004 (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill 2015 and

46. Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Act 2010 (Amendment) Bill 2015.

http://www.forumspotz.net/see-list-of-46-bills-the-nigerian-senate-passed-yesterday/

wow record

Alright

Finally they are awake..mofos

No first reading, second reading and finally reading again? Or Recessions over important issue.

These men are everything wrong with Nigeria since democracy. Hope they change their ways.

Bills that will keep them from going to jail! Seeking Immunity after service thats all I see in that list...

It was a RECORD Indeed...

Let them..

the kind of ojoro wey dis country dey do , its mind blowing.

I was here!

It happened in a hospital in Warri, Delta State… Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients died, in the same bed, every Sunday at 3pm. Doctors thought it was something supernatural. So, a team of experts was formed to Investigate the cause or causes. The following Sunday, few minutes before 3pm, all doctors & Nurses stood around that particular bed waiting to see what it was. Then suddenly Akpos (Part time sweeper) entered the ICU, unplugged the Life Support system of that Bed & then plugged his blackberry charger.
How was your day?

Bunch of jokers...all these in 10min....God dey

lilbazy:
It happened in a hospital in Warri, Delta State… Intensive
Care Unit
(ICU) patients died, in the same bed, every Sunday at 3pm.
Doctors thought it was something supernatural. So, a team
of experts was formed to Investigate the cause or causes.
The following Sunday, few minutes before 3pm, all doctors
& Nurses stood around that particular bed waiting to see
what it was. Then suddenly Akpos (Part time sweeper)
entered the ICU, unplugged the Life Support system of that
Bed & then plugged his blackberry charger.

How was your day?

Akpos needs to be admitted... Psychiatric straight!

Na all these kind thing them go sharply pass into law. Yeye de smell

what is the difference between 23 and 36

More details of the content of each bill would be appreciated

martyns303:
what is the difference between 23 and 36

23 - witness protection
36 - whistle blower

Witnesses are identified via investigation and may seek for identity to be protected.

Whistle blower is an insider within a key establishment often statutory that brings to public without consent an anomaly within the system. Eg the guy who exposed Ekitigate.

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so?

Rubbish! How do these improve the lives of jobless graduates?

The implication of passing those bills at that duration, out weights the implication of not passing it.

What does the Nigerian Communication Satellite Bill entail?

Chai,wind of change affect them.that is good buh why such a bill into law in 10mins.oga ooo

Lalasticlala

Ok na

make dem day pass am if BabaOneChance no free sign am,what will happen after that

Lol @Lobbyist bill.

So to be a lobbyist requires registration and possibly a tag number?

martyns303:
what is the difference between 23 and 36

You can and can as well not be a witness and the whistle blower at d same time.

In $20billion NNPC issue, SLS was the whistle blower; staff operators in NPDC, CBN, NNPC, etc could testify as witnesses to the shady deals that went on there.

It is refreshing to know however, that out of the 46 hurriedly passes bills, only 1, ie nos 41 relates to the legislators

The Red chamber led by PDP and D.B MARK has been deceiving Nigerians. I knew when Mark unceremoniously asked Koro to take a bow despite serious allegations of Electoral malpractices committed against the people of Ekiti. Let him be in d floor dis time and nobody will ask him not to contest in 2019.

Kx:


You can and can as well not be a witness and the whistle blower at d same time.

In $20billion NNPC issue, SLS was the whistle blower; staff operators in NPDC, CBN, NNPC, etc could testify as witnesses to the shady deals that went on there.

It is refreshing to know however, that out of the 46 hurriedly passes bills, only 1, ie nos 41 relates to the legislators

Refreshing? These men can't do a single thing for Nigerians without cutting themselves a bit of cake.