The House of Representatives on Wednesday re-introduced a bill seeking to establish the Nigerian Peace Corps.
The lower legislative house during plenary today also re-introduced another bill seeking to reorder the sequence of elections.
The lawmakers had weeks back passed both bills and sent to the Executive, but President Muhammadu Buhari refused to accent on them.
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President Buhari had cited duplication of duty and funding challenges in declining assent to the Nigerian Peace Corps (Establishment) Bill, 2017.
The President faulted that of electoral act amendment as infringing on the powers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Recall that Abdulrazak Namdas, spokesman of the House, last week said the Green Chamber had commenced the process of overriding President Buhari on the Peace Corps of Nigeria establishment bill, and nine other bills.
Namdas said the House resolved to look into the bill and address the concerns raised by the President and re-introduce it for passage.
“We will re-gazette the electoral act and expunge the areas which the president mentioned and which we are in agreement with the president and in line with the constitution,” the spokesman said last Wednesday.
“We will then bring it back for debate and re-transmit it to the president for assent.”
Some other bills which were re-introduced for passage into law include a bill for an act to establish the Chartered Institute of Treasury Management, a bill for an act to establish the Nigerian Council for Social Works, a bill for an act to amend the currency conversion, freezing orders act to give discretionary powers to the judge of high court to order for forfeiture of assets of affected persons, and a bill for an act to establish the police procurement fund.
Others are a bill for an act to amend the environmental health officers council registration act, a bill for an act to establish the Chartered Institute of loan and risk management of Nigeria, a bill for an act to establish the Chartered Institute of Public Management of Nigeria, a bill for an act to establish the Chartered Institute of Exports and Community Brokers of Nigeria and a bill for an act to establish the Federal University, Wukari.