President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law two important bills passed by the National Assembly into law.
The Climate Change Act stemmed from a bill sponsored by a member of the House of Representatives, Sam Onuigbo.
It provides for, among other things, the mainstreaming of climate change actions and the establishment of a National Council on Climate Change.
A statement issued on Tuesday by the president’s spokesperson, Malam Garba Shehu, said the climate change bill also paved the way for environmental and economic accounting and a push for a net zero emission deadline plan in the country.
The president added that the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (Amendment) Act amended the AMCON Act No.4, 2010.
It provides for the extension of the tenor of the Resolution Cost Fund and grants access to the Special Tribunal established by the Banks and other Financial Institutions Act 2020, which confers on the corporation the power “to take possession, manage, foreclose or sell, transfer, assign or otherwise deal with the asset or property used as security for eligible bank assets and related matters.’’
“This, in effect, will help AMCON make recoveries and for debtors to fulfil their commitments to banks”, he said.
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