PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law the Petroleum Industry Bill 2021, Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity) disclosed in a statement on Monday.
Adesina revealed that while working from home in a five-day quarantine as required by the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 after returning from London on Friday, August 13, 2021, the President assented to the Bill on Monday August 16, 2021.
The ceremonial part of the new legislation, the statement said, will be done on Wednesday, when the five-day mandatory isolation would have ended.
The Senate passed the PIB on July 15, 2021, while the House of Representatives did same on July 16, thus ending a long wait since early 2000s, and notching another high for the Buhari administration, Adesina noted.
