Ten posts in, you’ve picked up a lot of vocabulary. Here it all is in one place, bookmark this one.
Act — a bill that has completed the full legislative process and been signed into law.
Assent — the President’s or Governor’s formal signature approving a bill into law.
Bicameral — a legislature with two chambers (Nigeria’s National Assembly: Senate + House of Representatives).
Bill — a proposed law, before it’s been passed and signed.
Committee — a smaller group of lawmakers who specialise in a subject area and handle detailed scrutiny of bills and budgets in that area.
Constituency — the specific geographic area a lawmaker is elected to represent.
Constituency project — a development project sponsored by an individual lawmaker for their own constituency, funded through the budget process.
First / Second / Third Reading — the sequential stages a bill passes through in a chamber before it can move on or become law.
Impeachment — a constitutional process for removing certain officials (including some legislative leadership roles) from office.
Oversight — the legislature’s job of checking whether the Executive is properly implementing laws and spending approved budgets.
Public hearing — a formal session, usually at committee level, where citizens, experts, or officials can testify or submit input on a bill or issue.
Recall — a constitutional process letting registered voters petition to remove their own sitting lawmaker before their term ends.
Unicameral — a legislature with a single chamber (every Nigerian State House of Assembly).
Veto — a President’s or Governor’s decision to decline signing a bill, which the legislature can override with a sufficient majority.
That’s the full vocabulary this series has used. If a future post uses a term that isn’t here, that’s on us, let us know and we’ll fix it.