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OrderPaper Nigeria, a media organisation dedicated to reporting parliamentary affairs, is set to host an award ceremony for high-performing lawmakers in the national assembly

The event, tagged ‘Night of Glamour’, is billed to take place on May 21 at the federal capital territory (FCT).

The awards aim to recognise 20 of 55 nominated national assembly members, who will be up for possible induction into the “most valuable parliamentarian (MVP)” hall of fame.

Oke Epia, executive director of OrderPaper, said the objective of the MVP hall of fame is to “celebrate a class of distinguished and excellence-driven members of the national assembly who have been able to deliver very excellent services in four years”.

“OrderPaper has, since the commencement of the assembly in 2019, begun to monitor very closely the activities and the service delivery functions of the national assembly, members of the senate and members of the house of representatives,” Epia said.

“Specifically around the functions of lawmaking, which is processed through bills. So we had begun to measure the performances of the 109 senators and the 360 members of the house of representatives with regard to the sponsorship and processing of bills.

“And so, for the first anniversary of the event in 2020, the second anniversary in 2021 and, of course, the third anniversary in 2022. On every such occasion, we provided an appraisal of the national assembly with respect to lawmaking.

“By the way, these are performance appraisals driven completely by what the data provides. In other words, they are completely data-driven. They’re not performance measurements on whims and caprices because we are a parliament-focused organisation.”