Nigeria, Feb. 29 -- The House of Representatives has once again passed the bill to establish the Nigerian Peace Corps.

The House passed the bill for a third reading and will now await the concurrence of the Senate before onward transmission to President Bola Tinubu for assent.

House Leader, Julius Ihonvbere (APC, Edo), moved the bill for the third reading of the bill, and it was adopted unanimously.

On Wednesday, the Committee of the Whole had undertaken a clause-by-clause consideration of the bill.

The bill seeks to transform the Peace Corps, a non-governmental organisation, into a government paramilitary agency.

It also aims to provide legal backing to the establishment of the Peace Corps as a government parastatal and allow its me...