New Bill: Social workers hail Buhari, NASS

The Nigeria Association of Social Workers (NASoW), has applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for signing the National Council for Social Work [Establishment] Bill 2022 into law.

The association noted that the law formally legalises social work practice in the country.

The association made these disclosures via a statement signed by its President, Alhaji Mashood Mustapha, a copy of which was made available to journalists on Thursday through the Public Relations Officer of the association, Mr. Musliudeen Adebayo.

The association confirmed in the statement that Buhari had, on Tuesday, signed the National Council for Social Work [Establishment] Bill 2022 into law.

It was gathered that bill had earlier been passed into law by the National Assembly. The Senate on Tuesday, 28th June 2022, passed the Bill into law.

The association said that signing of the bill into law would strengthen social work practice in the country, saying that the law will help to regulate the practice in Nigeria the way it is done in other countries of the world.

Mustapha, while commending Buhari and the National Assembly for a good job, explained that the association has been clamouring for the bill’s passage over two decades ago.

He said the law is a major achievement of the 9th National Assembly and President Buhari because it will help to legalise social work practice in the country through an act of parliament