Tag: Gbajabiamila
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Nigeria deserves a trustworthy Police Force – Gbajabiamila
By Emman Ovuakporie The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila on Thursday said Nigerians deserve a police force that they can trust. TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports that the speaker disclosed this at an ongoing public hearing on two Police laws that had to be amended to make the Nigerian police more functional, organized…
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Reps accept petition by Diaspora Tiv indigenes, earlier rejected by Gbajabiamila’s Deputy
A petition by a group of Tiv indigenes from Benue State in the diaspora which generated controversy last week has been accepted by the House of Representatives. The lawmakers received the petition during Tuesday’s plenary at the lower chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja, the nation’s capital. It was filed by a group –…
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Lawan, Gbajabiamila, Governors, Ministers for National Pilot’s book launch
A book, titled: Roundtable Discussion on Economy And Restructuring In Nigeria, will be presented to the public on April 14, 2021 in Lagos. Published by the National Pilot newspapers, the book treats the twin issues of economy and restructuring and offers a way forward. The event will hold at Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja, the Lagos State…
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Lawan, Gbajabiamila sued over ‘missing N4.4bn NASS funds’
Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan and Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila have been sued over “their failure to probe, and to refer to appropriate anti-corruption agencies allegations that N4.4bn of public money budgeted for the National Assembly is missing, misappropriated, diverted or stolen, as documented in three annual audited reports by the…
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Lawan, Gbajabiamila get 14 days deadline to probe “missing N4.4 billion‘’
Senate President Dr Ahmad Lawan and Speaker of House of Representatives Mr Femi Gbajabiamila have been given 14 days ultimatum to probe the allegations of missing N4.4 billion of public money budgeted for the National Assembly. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP gave the deadline in a letter written to the leadership of the…
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Nigerians have gained a lot from Buhari’s experience – Gbajabiamila
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has described President Muhammadu Buhari as a blessing to the nation, saying that Nigerians have gained a lot from his wealth of experience. Gbajabiamila in a statement issued on Wednesday by his media aide, Lanre Lasisi, said President Buhari deserves being celebrated at 78 given his commitment…
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Insecurity: Gbajabiamila, lawmakers wait in vain as Buhari shuns invitation
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday failed to honour the invitation by the House of Representatives to address them on the security situation in the country. Recall that the House in a resolution on 1 December invited Buhari to address them on the true state of the security situation in the country, in the wake of…
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Telecoms and security of lives: Time for desperate measures – Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe When we got into the first part of Kogi State, the young man behind me in the bus, who had engaged his colleagues in animated discussions all the way from Benin, tried to find out our location. Told that we were in Okene, he became a psychotic wreck and flew into…
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Late vendor’s family sues Gbajabiamila, demands N500m
Ifeanyichukwu Okereke’s family, the vendor who was shot dead by a security aide to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has demanded N500 million for compensation. Okereke’s family in a letter to the speaker dated November 23, 2020, demanded the compensation. The letter was signed by the lawyer of the family, Chief…
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Gbajabiamila’s aide shot newspaper vendor thrice, says family
The family of Ifeanyichukwu Okereke, a newspaper vendor shot dead on Thursday by a security aide to the Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has faulted the Speaker’s account of the incident. The family, in their November 20, 2020 letter signed by their lawyer, Chidiebere Nwachukwu of Nwachukwu Nwachukwu & Co, and addressed to the…