Tinubu Transmits Two Bills and Rejects Two Others

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu transmitted two executive bills to the House of Representatives on July 8, 2026. These include the National Senior Secondary Education Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2026, and the Administration of Criminal Justice Bill, 2026, which proposes a National Sex Offenders Register and the abolition of trial-within-trial proceedings for confessional statements.

Simultaneously, the president declined to sign two amendment bills passed by the National Assembly. He rejected the Raw Materials Research and Development Council (Amendment) Bill, citing structural and drafting defects and a title that failed to reflect its principal objective. He also withheld assent from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Management of Nigeria (Amendment) Bill, arguing that it improperly granted the institute regulatory powers over independent organizations and created an unreasonable restraint of trade.

Tinubu stated that both rejected bills may be suitable for retransmission for assent once the identified legal and constitutional issues are corrected. In response, Senate President Godswill Akpabio referred the rejected legislation to the Senate Committee on Rules and Business for review, with a mandate to submit recommendations within four weeks.