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Sponsored by Orji Uzor Kalu, senator for Abia North, it would amend the Third Schedule of the 2004 Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria Act.","If enacted, the bill could provide the legal basis for creating the institution; the report does not say that it has been established. The proposal awaits second reading for debate on its general principles before referral to the relevant committee. The source gives no budget, opening date or planned capacity."],"key_points":[],"sections":[]},"text":"The proposal would amend the Agricultural Research Council law’s schedule to provide a statutory basis for a new federal college in Abia State.\n\nThe National Assembly Library Trust Fund reported on 21 October that a bill to establish the Federal College of Agriculture in Ohafia cleared first reading in the Senate on 20 October. Sponsored by Orji Uzor Kalu, senator for Abia North, it would amend the Third Schedule of the 2004 Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria Act.\n\nIf enacted, the bill could provide the legal basis for creating the institution; the report does not say that it has been established. The proposal awaits second reading for debate on its general principles before referral to the relevant committee. The source gives no budget, opening date or planned capacity.","corrections":[],"editorial_illustration":{"kind":"symbolic-editorial-illustration","documentary":false,"scope":"section","asset_id":"agriculture","url":"https://haberpaper.com/assets/illustrations/agriculture-1536.webp","width":1536,"height":1024,"alt":"Symbolic agricultural landscape with wheat, olive trees and irrigation channels.","language":"en"},"section_illustration":{"kind":"symbolic-editorial-illustration","documentary":false,"scope":"section","asset_id":"agriculture","url":"https://haberpaper.com/assets/illustrations/agriculture-1536.webp","width":1536,"height":1024,"alt":"Symbolic agricultural landscape with wheat, olive trees and irrigation channels.","language":"en"}}}