Nigerian House of Reps Order Paper 20 October 2026 Explained

Seven bills received their first reading, meaning they were formally introduced. Three came from the executive arm: amendments to the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau Act, the NDLEA Act, and a brand-new National School of Government Bill. Private member bills sought to establish Federal Colleges of Forestry in New Marte, Borno State and Yusufari, Yobe State, and two further bills proposed pension board amendments for the National Intelligence Agency and the Defence Intelligence Agency.

At second reading, lawmakers debated six bills in greater depth. These included a bill to update Nigeria's Geneva Conventions law, a bill to bring the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court into Nigerian law, a bill to replace the National Insurance Commission with a new Insurance Regulatory Commission, a bill to create a Federal University of Information Technology in Ikare-Akoko, a bill to ban the sale of second-hand electrical materials in open markets, and a bill to establish a Federal Medical Centre in Ifako-Ijaiye, Lagos.

Three motions were tabled. One sought to send the National Assembly Service Pension Board Amendment Bill back to a Committee of the Whole after legal flaws were found in two of its sections. A second motion asked the House to reconsider an agricultural quarantine bill carried over from the previous assembly. A third motion challenged a circular from the Secretary to the Government of the Federation that required executive approval before lawmakers could obtain travel documents for official foreign trips, arguing it violates the constitutional separation of powers.