The 360 Roundup: National Assembly, 7-9 July 2026

Senate

Passed. Five bills cleared third reading: the Nigeria Social Security Trust Fund (Establishment) Bill, the Proceeds of Crime Act (Repeal & Re-enactment) Bill, the Legal Practitioners Act (Repeal & Re-enactment) Bill, and two media-regulation bills, the Media Practitioners Registration Council Bill and the Chartered Out-of-Home Media Practitioners Bill.

Second reading. The e-Health Bill, which sets a framework for electronic health records, telemedicine and e-prescriptions, and the Public Complaints Commission (Repeal & Re-enactment) Bill, which adds whistleblower and public-interest disclosure protections.

Newly introduced. The Public Procurement Act (Amendment) Bill, the Federal Capital Territory Rent Regulation, Tenancy and Housing Stability Bill, and the Federal Medical Centre Act (Amendment) Bill.

On the floor. A motion on the xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa, with a two-week reporting deadline on bilateral commitments; a minute of silence over worsening insecurity, with a call for stronger intelligence gathering; and clearance of the Lafarge Cement sale to Huaxing Pan-African Investment, subject to strict regulatory compliance.

House of Representatives

Oversight headline. The House adopted Hon. Ademorin Kuye's motion to dismantle Nigeria's estimated 2.23 trillion naira ransom cash economy, directing the Central Bank and the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit to audit high-risk POS operators, mandating real-time monitoring of kidnapping-linked transactions, and calling for the prosecution of facilitators.

Second reading. The Nutritionists Registration Council of Nigeria (Establishment) Bill, sponsored by Hon. Chike Okafor, to curb quackery in nutrition practice.

Moving to law. A bicameral conference committee on the State Police Bill was constituted to reconcile the Senate and House versions.

This week's scorecard

Every passage has a sponsor, and the pattern holds: the most prolific sponsor is rarely the most effective. Top movers by bills passed in the first two years of the 10th Assembly:

Assent watch

President Tinubu declined assent to the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Management (Establishment) Bill and sent it back for redrafting, while transmitting the National Senior Secondary Education Commission (Amendment) Bill to the Assembly for passage.

Track any of these bills from first reading to assent on Legis360.