The Senate’s establishment bill 2025 for national emergency toll service (NETS) was passed in second reading.
Through a dedicated three-digit, toll-free number that is accessible to everyone in the country, the bill sponsored by Senator Abdulaziz Musa Yar’adua (Katsina Central) aims to establish a uniform, accessible, and quick emergency response system.
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) will also be able to act as the agency under the proposed legislation, which has received strong support, in order to improve coordination in national emergency response.
The upper chamber has announced a significant change in several standing committees in response to renewed challenges posed by national security and intelligence, fulfilling its earlier pledge to reorganize the committee on national security and intelligence.
The Senate Selection Committee, which is led by Godswill Akpabio, the senate’s president, made the announcement in plenary.
Senator Yahaya Abdullahi of Kebbi State has been appointed chairman of the Senate committee on national security and intelligence as a result of the new arrangement. Prior to that, he oversaw the committee on national planning.
The committee on livestock and animal husbandry was also reorganized by the parliament, naming Bauchi State senator Shehu Buba as its new chairman. Sen. Buba was removed from the position of committee chairman for national security and intelligence last week.
In a related change, Yobe State Senator Mustafa Musa has been appointed as the committee’s chairman.
With the appointment of Osita Ngwu of Enugu as acting chairman as Senate minority whip, the Air Force committee has also been modified. Before Senator Akwashiki, the committee’s former chairman, became indisposed, Ngwu had previously served as the committee’s deputy chairman.
Source: Channels TV
Leave a Reply