Hope Ajayi 
ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigerians could soon access federal laws in Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and other indigenous languages under a National Assembly initiative aimed at making legislation easier for citizens to understand and access.
The Executive Secretary of the National Assembly Library Trust Fund, Henry Nwawuba, disclosed the plan on Monday in Abuja at the opening of the three-day 2026 National Assembly Library Week.
Nwawuba said translating legislation into indigenous languages would form part of wider efforts to improve public access to parliamentary information and preserve Nigeria’s legislative history.
The event is themed “Parliamentary Memory: Connecting Records, Legislation and the People.”
Nwawuba said the Trust Fund was also investing in electronic repositories and the National Assembly E-Library to improve access to legislative records.
He said a mobile application was being developed to give lawmakers, legislative aides, staff, researchers and members of the public easier access to parliamentary information.
The initiative is also expected to support efforts to preserve legislative records and make them available to a wider audience.
Representing Senate President Godswill Akpabio at the event, Senator Osita Ngwu urged lawmakers to make greater use of the National Assembly Library, particularly amid the spread of misinformation, disinformation and artificial intelligence-generated content.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas, represented by House Leader Prof Julius Ihonvbere, said preserving legislative records was important for strengthening democratic governance and transferring institutional knowledge to future generations.
The Clerk of the National Assembly, Kamoru Ogunlana, warned against circulating incomplete, outdated, altered or unauthorised parliamentary documents.
He said the ease with which documents can be scanned, altered and redistributed in the digital era made authentication and preservation of legislative records increasingly important.
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