The National Assembly will fast track the passage of the new national minimum wage bill, once the executive bill is sent to it.

Sen. Mao Ohuanbuwa, Deputy Chairman of the Senate Committee on Labour, made this known while speaking with newsmen on Friday in Geneva, Switzerland.

Ohuanbuwa said that the Senate President had already given the assurance that the bill would be given express hearing and passage by the legislature.

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has raised the alarm that the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has put his name on its security watchlist.

Obasanjo claimed security agencies are plotting to arrest and put him in detention.

The former president made these allegations in a statement signed by his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, on Friday in Abeokuta.

Obasanjo noted that the present administration wanted to blackmail him into abandoning his divine mandate to protect the rights of Nigerians to a better life.

Senator Stella Oduah, the Senator representing Anambra North Senatorial District, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and declared her intention to seek reelection on the platform of All Progressive Grand Alliance. According to NAN, the Senator who formerly announced her defection on Wednesday said she was motivated by the quest to achieve the Igbo Agenda, Youths and Women empowerment.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday signed a constitutional amendment that stops a vice president who completes the term of a president from contesting for the office of the President more than once.

The same is applicable to a deputy governor who completes the term of a state governor.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday.

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Fourth Alteration Bill that grants financial autonomy to State Judiciaries and State Houses of Assembly into law.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (senator), Senator Ita Enang disclosed this to State House correspondents on Friday.

Senator Enang said, “I just want to inform you that His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari today assented to the Constitution Fourth Alteration Bill which grants financial authonomy and independence to the Houses of Assembly of the respective states and to the Judiciary of the respective states.

The House of Representatives plenary turned rowdy on Thursday over President Muhammadu Buahri’s declaration of June 12 as the new Democracy Day.

The lawmakers debated the powers of the Executive to make such pronunciation.

President Muhammadu Buhari had made the declaration in a statement on Wednesday that June 12 would replace May 29 as Democracy Day because it was a more symbolic day.