Nigeria, March 20 -- President Bola Tinubu has sent a bill seeking to amend the salaries of judicial officers to the House of Representatives for consideration.

This was contained in a correspondence from the president to the House read by Speaker Abbas Tajudeen during plenary on Tuesday.

The Executive Bill is titled: 'A Bill for an Act to prescribe the salaries, allowances and fringe benefits of judicial office holders in Nigeria and for related matters'.

In the letter dated 19 March, Mr Tinubu solicited accelerated consideration and passage of the bill.

He said: "In accordance with the provisions of Section 58(2) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, (as amended), I forward, herewith, the Judicial Office Hold...