Osinbajo signs bills on Diaspora Commission, Petroleum Institute into law
The Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday signed into law two out of recent bills forwarded to him by the National Assembly.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Solomon Ita Enang, disclosed this in a statement he signed and made available to correspondents in Abuja.
According to him, the two bills assented to by the Acting President are Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (Establishment Act) 2017 and the Petroleum Training Institute (Amendment) Act, 2017, stated that the provisions of the bills have now become laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
He explained that the Diaspora Commission Act establishes the commission under the supervisory jurisdiction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with responsibility to co-ordinate and organize Nigerians in and from Diaspora for contribution to human capital and material resources by way of using their expertise for national development.
Ita Enang said the Commission Act would facilitate provision for database of Nigerians in different fields of life as resource base for the country and the world to draw from.
The signed Petroleum Training Institute (Amendment) Act according to him is to bring the provisions thereof in conformity with the constitution, allowing for due process in the administrative action affecting the principal officers and staff of the Institute.
