{"id":5259,"date":"2021-09-09T13:13:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=5259"},"modified":"2021-09-09T15:04:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T15:04:57","slug":"lagos-assembly-pass-vat-open-grazing-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=5259","title":{"rendered":"Lagos Assembly Passes VAT, Open Grazing Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State House of Assembly on Thursday passed the State&#8217;s Value Added Tax (VAT) with Speaker Mudashiru Obasa directing the Acting Clerk of the House, Mr. Olalekan Onafeko, to transmit a clean copy to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for assent.<\/p>\n<p>The House also passed the bill that prohibits open cattle grazing in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The two bills were passed after unanimous votes by the lawmakers at the sitting where they were read the third time.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after their passage, Speaker Obasa commended his colleagues for their passion to see that the state continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I Thank you all for this historic exercise,&#8221; Obasa said.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the House held separate public hearings on the bills on Wednesday with stakeholders expressing support. # Obasa Media Strikers #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State House of Assembly on Thursday passed the State&#8217;s Value Added Tax (VAT) with Speaker Mudashiru Obasa directing the Acting Clerk of the House, Mr. Olalekan Onafeko, to transmit a clean copy to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu for assent. The House also passed the bill that prohibits open cattle grazing in the state. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[251,3288,3109],"class_list":["post-5259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-lagos-assembly","tag-open-grazing-bill","tag-vat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5264,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259\/revisions\/5264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}