Senate passes workers’ compensation trust fund, federal polytechnics bills

The Senate connected Thursday passed the Nigerian Employees’ Compensation Trust Fund Agency Establishment Bill, 2026, and the Federal Polytechnics Act Amendment Bill, 2026.

The bills were passed aft the Senate recommitted them to the Committee of the Whole for further legislative scrutiny and information of indispensable amendments.

Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele, who moved the question for recommittal, said definite provisions required further reappraisal to guarantee administrative clarity and a broad ineligible framework.

He urged the Senate to rescind its earlier decisions connected the bills and recommit them to the Committee of the Whole for information and passage.

Seconding the motion, Senator Kamorudeen Oyewumi (APC, Osun West) said the workout would region ambiguities and align the bills with laws establishing akin institutions.

The Senate subsequently considered the bills clause by clause and approved their provisions.

Bamidele said the Employees’ Compensation Trust Fund Bill seeks to repeal the NSITF Act and the Employees’ Compensation Act and regenerate them with a caller framework.

According to him, the projected authorities provides compensation for death, injury, illness oregon disablement arising retired ...