Buhari signs social investment agency bill

• Seven other educational bills become laws

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday assented to eight Bills passed by the ninth National Assembly.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Babajide Omoworare, said this in a statement.

Omoworare said the president’s action was in accordance with Provisions of the Acts Authentication Act Cap. A2, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.

He listed the new laws to include the ‘National Social Investment Programme Agency Act’; ‘National Senior Secondary Education Act’.

The president also assented to the ‘Federal University of Health Sciences, Ila-Orangun (Establishment) Act’; ‘Federal University of Health Sciences, Azare (Establishment) Act’; ‘Chartered Institute of Development Studies and Administration of Nigeria (Establishment) Act’; ‘Federal Institute of Industrial Research (Establishment) Act’; and the ‘Institute of Strategic Management of Nigeria Act, respectively’.

Omoworare said the National Social Investment Programme Agency was established to assist and empower poor and vulnerable Nigerians, while the National Senior Secondary Education Act, prescribes minimum standards for senior secondary education in Nigeria and the management of National Senior Secondary Education Fund.

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