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Overview The project aimed at strengthening systems of oversight within East African parliaments, particularly at the level of the portfolio committees. The goal was to have portfolio committees engage more meaningfully on issues within sectors they are responsible for, enhance the effectiveness with which they interrogate departmental reports, and use […]

Overview This project was about assessing the revised Pan African Parliament (PAP) Protocol, with the aim of determining the potential implications, both positive and negative, of implementing the revised protocol on the PAP as an organ of the African Union and on its members at national level. The assessment was[…]

COUNTRY Nigeria STRUCTURE OF PARLIAMENT Bicameral SESSION The 19th Assembly TERM Four (4) years (since 2019) SEATS   469109 Senators360 Representatives GENDER REPRESENTATION Male        239 Female    36 LEADERSHIP   Senate President  – Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan (since June 20)Deputy Senate President –Ovie Omo-AgegeSpeaker of the House  – Femi Gbajabiamila (since 11 June 2019)Deputy Speaker   – Ahmed Wase  Website www.nass.gov.ng[…]

Overview The ECOWAS Parliament was established under articles 6 and 13 of the ECOWAS Revised Treaty of 1993. The Protocol relating to the Parliament was signed in Abuja on the 6th August, 1994 and entered into force on 14th March, 2002.  In 2006, a Supplementary Protocol was adopted to modify[…]