2022 has been up lately with a lot of political rearrangement and Eectoral Act being signed into law in preparation for the 2023 General Elections.
Thus, the Constitution wasn’t left unamended. The following are the latest constitution amendment:
*Senate passes Bill for independent Candidacy to contest for an elective position.
*Senate Rejects Bill for Diaspora Voting.
*Senate Rejects Bill for Mayoralty Status for the FCT.
*Senate Rejects Bill for Appointment of Minister from the FCT.
*Senate passes Bill to make free, Compulsory Basic Education a Fundamental rights of all citizens.
*Senate passes Bill on Food Security.
*Senate Passes Bill to Entrench the Establishment and core Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps.
*Senate rejects bill to provide a minimum of 10 women nominees as Commissioners and minister in the state and federal executive councils.
CONSTITUTION ALTERATION VOTING [01/03/22]
#Bill No. 29 – for an Act to Move Airports from Exclusive Legislative List to the Concurrent Legislative List; and for Related Matters.
84 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No. 30 – for an Act to move Fingerprints, Identification and Criminal Records from the Exclusive Legislative List to the Concurrent Legislative List; and for Related Matters.
86 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No. 31 – for an Act to Delete prisons in the Exclusive Legislative List and Redesignate it as Correctional Services in the Concurrent Legislative List; and for Related Matters.
86 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No. 32 – for an Act to move Railway from the Exclusive Legislative List to Concurrent Legislative List; and for Related Matters.
92 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No. 33 – for an Act to allow States Generate, Transmit and Distribute Electricity in Area covered by the National Grid; and for Related Matters.
90 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No. 34 – for an Act to include Value Added Tax on the Exclusive Legislative List; and for Related Matters.
41 senators voted in favour
STATUS: NOT APPROVED
#Bill No. 35 – for an Act to Provide for Special Seats for Women in the National and State Houses of Assembly; and for Related Matters.
30 senators voted in favour
58 senators voted against
STATUS: NOT APPROVED
#Bill No. 36 – for an Act to Expand the Scope of Citizenship by Registration; and for Related Matters.
83 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No. 37 – for an Act to Provide for Affirmative Action for Women in Political Party Administration; and for Related Matters.
34 senators voted in favour
53 senators voted against
STATUS: NOT APPROVED
#Bill No. 38 – for an Act to provide Criteria for Qualification to become an Indigene of a State in Nigeria; and for Related Matters.
90 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No. 39 – for an Act to Empower the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission to Enforce Compliance with Remittance of Accruals into and Disbursement of Revenue from the Federation Account and Streamline the Procedure for Reviewing the Revenue Allocation Formula; and for Related Matters.
94 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No. 40 – for an Act to Enhance the Independence of Certain Bodies; and for Related Matters.
93 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No 41 – for an Act to Remove Transitional Lawmaking Powers from the Executive Arms of Government; and for Related Matters.
88 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No. 42 – for an Act to Expand Immunity to the Legislative and Judicial Arms of Government; and for Related Matters.
29 senators voted in favour
50 senators voted against
STATUS: NOT APPROVED
#Bill No. 43 – for an Act to Specify the Time within which the Executive shall present to the National Assembly any Treaty between the Federation and any other Country for Enactment; and for Related Matters.
81 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No. 44 – for an Act to Specify the period within which the President or the Governor of State shall present the Appropriation Bill before the National Assembly or House of Assembly; and for Related Matters.
92 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No. 45 – for an Act to Require the President or Governors to submit the Names of Persons Nominated as Ministers or Commissioners within thirty days of taking the Oath of Office for Confirmation by the Senate or State House of Assembly,; and for Related Matters.
93 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No. 46 – for an Act to include Presiding Officers of the National Assembly in the Membership of the National Security Council; and for Related Matters.
73 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No. 47 – for an Act to Establish State Security Council; and for Related Matters.
92 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No. 48 – for an Act to Empower the National Assembly and State Houses of Assembly Powers to summon the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Governors of States to answer Questions on issues on which the National and State Houses of Assembly have the Power to make Law; and for Related Matters.
77 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No. 49 – for an Act to reduce the Period within which the President or the Governor of a State may authorize the withdrawal of Monies from the Consolidated Revenue Fund in the absence of an Appropriations Act from six months to three months; and for Related Matters.
83 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No. 50 – for an Act to Replace the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation with the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federal Government; and for Related Matters.
93 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No. 51 – for an Act to Establish the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federal Government separate from the Office of the Accountant–General of the Federation; and for Related Matters.
88 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No. 52 – for an Act to Specify the Timeframe for the Conduct of Population Census; and for Related Matters.
91 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
Bill No. 53 – for an Act to Establish the Office of the Attorney–General of the Federation and of States separate from the Office of the Minister of Justice or Commissioners for Justice of States in order to make the Offices Attorneys–General Independent and Insulated from Partisanship; and for Related Matters.
86 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No. 54 – for an Act to provide for a State of the Nation and State of the State Address by the President and Governor; and for Related Matters.
89 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
#Bill No. 55 – for an Act to include former Heads of the National Assembly in the Council of State; and for Related Matters.
73 senators voted in favour
STATUS: APPROVED
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