Tag: Speaker of the House of Representatives

NANS play down Gbajabiamila’s intervention, threaten to shut down Airports

Benjamin Chukwudaalu, Political Reporter

The National Association of Nigerian Students has said that the planned meeting of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, will not stop its Monday protest. NANS, in a statement, Sunday, signed by its National Task Force Chairman on #EndASUUStrikeNow, Ojo Raymond, noted that even though it welcomed the Speaker’s intervention, its pledge to ground airports in the country would be executed. Gbajabiamila had in a letter signed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Yahaya Danzarta,…

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Gbajabiamila blows hot as ministers, others shun Reps’ subsidy probe

Benjamin Chukwudaalu, Political Reporter

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has condemned the non-appearance of top officials of the Federal Government before the Ad Hoc Committee on the Volume of Fuel Consumed Daily in Nigeria at its investigative hearing in Abuja on Tuesday. Gbajabiamila particularly called out the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva; Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed; Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele; and the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (formerly Group Managing Director of the…

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Gbajabiamila ends accreditation rift between ABU, NMCN

Jide Ige

Following the intervention of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, the full accreditation status of the School of Nursing Sciences of the College of Medical Sciences of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria has been restored.  The speaker had mandated the House Committee on Health care Services, chaired by Hon. Dr Tanko Sununu to intervene and ensure the accreditation, which was withdrawn in May 2019 by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria is restored.  At the stakeholders’ meeting on Monday at the House of Representatives,…

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