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Nigeria - The House Deputy Leader, Mr. Leo Ogor, according to Punch says the Petroleum Industrial Bill, PIB would be reconsidered by members of the House of Representatives on Thursday next week.
Read: 'Further Delay in PIB Passage Will Harm Nigeria's Economy'
The 23-member Ad-Hoc Committee on PIB had produced its report on March 12, 2015, more than two years after the Speaker, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, inaugurated it on November 15, 2012.
The committee was chaired by the Chief Whip, Mr. Ishaka Bawa, a Peoples Democratic Party lawmaker from Taraba State.
Several labour unions in the country since then had threatened to embark on strike if the bill wasn't passed.
Read: PIB Delay: PENGASSAN Threatens Massive Nationwide Strike
Read: Nigeria: NUPENG to go on Strike Over Non Passage of PIB
However house members since then have kept the bill aside to focus on the 2015 polls. But with the elections won and lost, most members were now putting the polls behind them to round off their session in the weeks ahead.
Thus, the Deputy House speaker, Emeka Ihedioha, on resuming work on Tuesday, directed that copies of the PIB be made available to all members before Thursday next week.
"The Committee on Rules and Business is already working on it. It is hoped that by next week the consideration will start,” Punch quoted a source.
Read: Mass Employment for Nigerians Once PIB is Passed Into Law
#nigeria #petroleum #pib
Read: 'Further Delay in PIB Passage Will Harm Nigeria's Economy'
The 23-member Ad-Hoc Committee on PIB had produced its report on March 12, 2015, more than two years after the Speaker, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, inaugurated it on November 15, 2012.
The committee was chaired by the Chief Whip, Mr. Ishaka Bawa, a Peoples Democratic Party lawmaker from Taraba State.
Several labour unions in the country since then had threatened to embark on strike if the bill wasn't passed.
Read: PIB Delay: PENGASSAN Threatens Massive Nationwide Strike
Read: Nigeria: NUPENG to go on Strike Over Non Passage of PIB
However house members since then have kept the bill aside to focus on the 2015 polls. But with the elections won and lost, most members were now putting the polls behind them to round off their session in the weeks ahead.
Thus, the Deputy House speaker, Emeka Ihedioha, on resuming work on Tuesday, directed that copies of the PIB be made available to all members before Thursday next week.
"The Committee on Rules and Business is already working on it. It is hoped that by next week the consideration will start,” Punch quoted a source.
Read: Mass Employment for Nigerians Once PIB is Passed Into Law
#nigeria #petroleum #pib
