House of reps breaks records as they present 130 bill in a day

The House of Representatives on
Thursday stunned National Assembly
monitors when the chamber presented a
total of 130 bills at a single session
presided over by the Speaker, Yakubu
Dogara.
Some of the 130 bills include Corporate
manslaughter bill, Medical and Dental
Practitioners Act (amendment) bill,
Psychiatric Hospitals Management Board
Act (amendment) bill, Peoples Bank of
Nigeria (repeal) bill, Marketing (breast
milk substitute) Act (amendment) bill,
National Mathematical Centre Act
(amendment) bill, National Eye Centre
Act (amendment) bill, Inland Fisheries
Act (amendment) bill. Public private
partnership Regulatory Commission bill
and Food Drugs and Related Products
(registration Act (amendment) bill.
Others are Loans (State Development Act
(Repeal) bill, Medical Rehabilitation
Therapists (Registration Act
(amendment) bill, National Programme
on Immunisation Act (Repeal) bill, Pre-
Shipment Inspection of Exports Act
(amendment) bill, Pharmacists Council of
Nigeria Act (amendment), bill, Casino
Taxation Act (amendment) bill, National
Agency for Science and Engineering
Infrastructure Act (amendment) bill,
extradition Act (amendment) bill, Treaty
to establish the African Union
(Ratification and Enforcement) bill and
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior
Consent Procedure for Certain
Hazardous Pesticide in International
Trade (Ratification and Enforcement Act
(amendment) bill.
It was learnt that no chamber in either
Senate, the House or any state House of
Assembly in the country has ever
presented such number of bills at a
single plenary.