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The bill also seeks to give legal backing to the national centre for the control of small arms and light weapons (NACCSALW).

The Division Bench itself found that the Juvenile Justice Act had an overriding effect and would prevail over the CrPC.

A group, Democracy Watch, has lauded the Senate for initiating a bill that crimilises payment of ransom to kidnappers and terrorists.

The bill is aimed at stemming the criminal act of kidnapping for ransom, argues Dennis Mackenzie Since last week when the Terrorism Prevention (Amendment) Bill, 2021 scaled through second reading in the Senate, a number of Nigerians have been unsettled by aspects of the proposed law. The sponsor of the bill, Senator Ezenwa Francis Onyewuchi (PDP Imo State) and the entire Senate have come under some scathing criticisms on account of the bill. The bill, for the avoidance of doubt, was first intro...