The upper chamber also retained a closed ballot system of voting for the election of the President of the Senate and the Deputy.
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He stated this at a two-day capacity building workshop by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund on Monday in Abuja.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, made this known at the 45th Convocation Ceremony.
The bill was sponsored by the Senate Leader, Yahaya Abdullahi (Kebbi North).
Tagged: “The Nursing and Midwifery (Registration etc) Act, CAP N143 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004, (Amendment) Bill, the piece of legislation was sponsored by Senator Hassan Mohammed Gusau.
The reports were presented by Senator Nora Daduut on behalf of the Chairman, Committee on a tertiary Institutions and TETFUND, Senator Ahmad Babba Kaita.
Lawan spoke at an investigative hearing by Senate joint committee on education (Basic & Secondary) and Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND on the utilisation of the funding proposed and budgeted for the Safe Schools Initiative, including monies, supports and donations received from foreign government and agencies.
The passage of the Federal Medical Centre Owutu Eda (Establishment) Bill, 2021, followed the consideration of a report by the House Committee on Health (Secondary and Tertiary) at plenary on Tuesday.
First, from me. It is a huge debt I should hasten to defray on account of Professor Oloyede’s uncommon capability to indulge his own ‘ayanfes’ across generations, professions and all, in spite of whatever may be their imperfections but not without registering his disciplined preference for pleasant manifestations of ingenuity, hard work and creativity. He also keeps manifesting all of these qualities which obviously have helped him raise stakes in all his recent positions of high responsibilities
Speaking to a correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria, Umar said in spite of the ridiculously low amount being charged, the institution was able to provide hostel to 35 per cent of its over 55,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Also passed was a bill to establish the Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Ogoja, Cross River state.
The passage of the bill followed the presentation and consideration of a report by the Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe announced this at a news conference on activities lined up for the institution’s 51st convocation on Wednesday in Lagos.
Also passed was a bill for the establishment of the Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Suleja.
Also passed was a bill to establish the Federal College of Education, Gwoza in Borno State.
The matriculation, which is the university’s fourth, held on May 25, 2021, days after it unveiled a Science Lab built by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND).
A statement by the Director of Corporate Affairs, University of Ilorin, Kunle Akogun, disclosed that the laboratory, which was commissioned last weekend by TETFund’s Executive Secretary, Prof. Suleman Elias Bogoro, has already obtained the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control’s (NCDC) certification as a Public Health Laboratory for the diagnosis of COVID-19 and the surveillance of other infectious diseases like poliomyelitis, Lassa Fever and other viral haemorrhagic fevers.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Senate passed the bill on Wednesday.
Also passed was a bill to upgrade the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, to a full-fledged Federal University of Technology.
The development followed the third reading of a bill for an Act to provide for the establishment of the Federal University of Technology, Ilaro and for Other Matters Connected therewith, which was sponsored by Senator Adeola Solomon.