N’Assembly Passes Student Loan Bill, Proposes Jail For Defaulters
The National Assembly, on Wednesday, passed the Student Loans (Access to Higher Education) Act (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill, 2024. This…
The National Assembly, on Wednesday, passed the Student Loans (Access to Higher Education) Act (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill, 2024. This…
The court also ordered that Kyari and his sureties should deposit their international passports, statements of accounts, title deeds of the sureties’ properties and recent passport photographs with the court registrar as part of the bail conditions.
When signed into law, it will see to the inclusion of Preventive Measures and Teachings of Anti-Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) into the Civic Education curriculum at all levels of secondary school in Nigeria.
According to him, the bill only sought to give statutory backing to the existing Peace Corps of Nigeria under the leadership of Prof. Dickson Akoh.
The President of NYCN further posited that all the grey and conflicting areas that contributed to the decline of Presidential Assent of the earlier Bill passed by the 8th National Assembly had now been carefully considered and thoroughly resolved by the 9th National Assembly before transmission to the Presidency.
According to him, the passage of the Nigerian Peace Corps Bill is not only timely, reassuring and a renewed hope for the Nigerian youth, but also a pointer to the fact that the political elites is still very much conscious of the social challenges confronting the youth and therefore, passionate on proffering solutions to the challenges to same in order to place the youth in the front burner of our national life.