Senate has passed the bill recommending life imprisonment without an
option of fine for unlawful explosives manufacturers in the country.

The passage followed the consideration and adoption of a report by the
Senate Committee on Solid Minerals, Mines, Steel Development and
Metallurgy, chaired by Senator Tanko Al-Makura.

Section eleven of the bill seeking to repeal the Explosives Act nineteen
sixty-four and enact the Explosives Act twenty-twenty-three passed for
third reading in the Senate yesterday.
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Senator Adelere Oriolowo who presented the report on behalf of the
committee chairman, noted that criminals were getting more innovative
in the use of explosives to perpetrate crimes.