President Bola Tinubu has transmitted five bills to the Senate for consideration, seeking to reform laws governing drug enforcement, transport safety investigation, governance training and international humanitarian law.
The executive communications were conveyed in letters read by Senate President Godswill Akpabio at plenary on Tuesday.
Among the key proposals is the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau Amendment Bill 2026, which seeks to amend the 2022 Act to reposition the bureau as an independent multimodal safety investigation authority. The bill proposes expanding its mandate beyond aviation to include maritime and other transport modes, and transferring its supervisory oversight to the Presidency.
Another major proposal is the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Bill 2026, which seeks to repeal the existing NDLEA Act and the Indian Hemp Act, both in the Laws of the Federation 2004. The bill seeks to establish a consolidated legal framework to combat the cultivation, processing, trafficking and use of illicit drugs, and to strengthen the agency’s powers to investigate suspects.
President Tinubu also forwarded the National School of Government Bill (ASCON) 2026, which seeks to repeal the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria Act and establish a new national institution for leadership development, policy delivery, public sector capacity building and institutional strengthening.
The President equally transmitted two bills on international law. The Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols Bill seeks to repeal the existing Geneva Conventions Act and domesticate the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their two Additional Protocols of 1977 for the protection of victims of armed conflict.
Similarly, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Enforcement) Bill seeks to domesticate the Rome Statute and establish a framework for the enforcement and punishment of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and aggression, as well as provide for Nigeria’s cooperation with the ICC.
Following the reading of the letters, Akpabio referred the bills to the Committee on Rules and Business for further legislative action.
Meanwhile, the Senate also received notification of President Tinubu’s assent to two amendment bills establishing Federal Universities of Technology and Vocational Studies in Yaba, Lagos, and Kaduna.
Akpabio said the Federal University of Technology Amendment No. 2 Bill, 2026, provides for the inclusion of the institution in Yaba in the relevant Act, while the Federal University of Technology Amendment Bill, 2026, amends the Act to include the university in Kaduna.
He referred the assented bills to the Clerk to the National Assembly for further action and commended the President, describing the development as an important step towards promoting education in Nigeria.
