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The House of Representatives has announced that it would hold a special session on Tuesday to deliberate on the tax bills.
The Deputy Speaker, Ben Kalu announced this on Thursday after a long closed-door session.
The House held a long closed-door session that lasted over one hour before resuming plenary session.
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At the resumption of plenary, Mr Kalu announced that the special session would be held to determine the fate of the four bills.
“We will have a special session over the tax bill on Tuesday. This conversation is going to continue from now till Tuesday when we will invite these resource persons to be here to engage us. Thereafter we will decide which way to go,” he said.
The four tax bills; Nigeria Tax Bill 2024, the Tax Administration Bill, the Nigeria Revenue Service Establishment Bill, and the Joint Revenue Board Establishment Bill, are currently before the two chambers of the National Assembly.
It would be recalled that the Senate held a similar session on Wednesday and passed the bills for a second reading on Thursday.
In other news, the House of Representatives has approved Olufemi Oluyede as the Chief of Army Staff, COAS.
The confirmation came after a report was presented by Babajimi Benson, the chairman of the Committee on Defense.
The Eastern Updates reports that the Joint Committee on Army and Defense had screened Oluyede on Wednesday.
Recall that Oluyede was nominated by President Bola Tinubu as the Acting COAS due to the ill health of the former Chief of Army Staff, Taoreed Lagbaja, who later passed away.
Oluyede was appointed acting as the Chief of Army Staff following the illness and subsequent death of Lt. Gen. Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja
The president’s letter was read on the floor of the House on Tuesday, November 26, by Speaker Abba Tajudeen while an ad-hoc committee headed by the Chairman of the House Committee on Defence, Babajimi Benson (APC, Lagos) was constituted on Wednesday for the screening or Gen. Oluyede.
