AT the beginning of every parliamentary year, there are many job opportunities. New hands are hired to replace those who left since the lawmakers need aides to assist them. Under decent arrangements, these assistants receive good salaries, multiple allowances and other competitive packages. In most cases, these political appointees earn more than civil servants.
With 360 Members of the House of Rep-resentatives, 109 Senators and 548 legislators at the state Houses of Assembly, there can be no limit to the job and other opportunities in the Federal and state legislatures.
There are 85 committees in the House of Representatives.
They are: Petroleum resources (upstream), Youth and Social Development, Gas Resources, Health, Housing And Habitat, Inter and Intra-party Relations, Judiciary, Media/Public Affairs. Others include Millennium Development Goals, Public Procurement, Niger Delta Development Commission, Agriculture, Aids, Loans and Debt Management, Air Force, Anti-Corruption, National Ethics and Values, Appropriations, Army, Aviation, Banking and Currency, Capital Market and Institutions, Civil Society and Donor Agencies, Climate Change, Co-operation and Integration in Africa, Commerce, Communications, Constituency Outreach, Culture and Tourism, Customs and Excise, Defence, Diaspora, Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes; Education, Electoral Matters, Emergency and Disaster Preparedness, Ethics and Privileges, FCT area Councils and Ancillary Matters, Federal Capital Territory, Federal Character, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Governmental Affairs, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, House Services, Human Rights, Industries, Information and National Orientation Inter-parliamentary Relations, Interior, Internal Security, Justice, Labour, Employment and Productivity; Lake Chad, Land Transport, Legislative Budget and Research, Legislative Compliance, Marine Transport, National Planning and Economic Development, National Security and Intelligence, Navy, Pension, Petroleum Resources (Down Stream), Police Affairs, Population, Poverty Alleviation, Power, Privatisation and Commercialisation, Public Accounts, Public Petitions, Public Service Matter Rules and Business, Rural Development, Science and Technology Selection, Solid Mineral Development, Special Duties, Sports States and Local Government Affairs, Steel, Urban Development Water Resources, Women Affairs, Women Parliament, Works And Ministry Of Niger Delta.
There are 45 Committees in the Senate. These include Works, Women and Youth, Water Resources States and Local Government, Upstream Petroleum Resources and Works Sports Solid Minerals. Senate Services, Science and Technology Rules and Business. Security and Intelligence, Public Accounts, Power, Police Affairs, National Identity Card and Population Millennium Development Goals (MGDS), Marine Transport. Niger Delta Information Establishment and Public Service Environment and Ecology Education Privatisation, Foreign Affairs, Employment, Labour and Productivity Navy Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Land, Transport, Downstream Petroleum, Drugs Narcotics, Anti Corruption, Ethics and Petition, Federal Capital Territory, Federal Character and Inter-Government Affairs, Finance, Gas, Health Housing, Independent National Electoral Commission, Industry, Integration and Co-operation, Inter-Parliamentary Affairs, Interior Affairs, Local and Foreign Debts and National Planning.
Parliamentarians have made considerable recruitments in the years of democracy. Most of the employment opportunities are better paid positions with benefits for Nigerians to realise their dreams. At the National Assembly, there is a hierarchy of positions based on level of experience. By any standard, the job of a special assistant to most principal officers of the National Assembly represents remarkable career progress
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