Tag: Gbajabiamila
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Gbajabiamila jets to Ghana today over alleged maltreatment of Nigerians
House of Representatives Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila will visit Ghana today to liaise with his Ghanaian counterpart over the misunderstanding between Nigeria and Ghana. Gbajabiamila stated this on Tuesday while addressing State House Correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The Speaker, who said he was at the Villa…
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Why we suspended probes, investigative hearing – Gbajabiamila
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has said the decision of the House leadership to halt all investigative hearings and ongoing probe was to enable the House put in place more measures to address the COVID-19 pandemic The Speaker dismissed claims in some quarters that the action was aimed at truncating the investigating…
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PDP calls for Gbajabiamila’s resignation, accuses him of frustrating corruption investigations
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday accused the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila of frustrating corruption investigations by the lower chamber. PDP made the claims while faulting the decision of Gbajabiamila to shut down the sitting of various committees investigating the executive. While urging the Speaker to step down, the former…
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Gbajabiamila spearheads African Speakers’ push for debts cancellation
Speaker of the House of Representatives Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila on Monday convened a meeting of some African Speakers of Parliaments where it was agreed that there is an urgent need to push for debt cancellation for the continent from their multilateral and bilateral partners. This is as Gbajabiamila’s initiative to establish the Conference of African…
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Defection: Declare Dogara’s seat vacant or face legal action, PDP tells Gbajabiamila
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Bauchi State has called on the leadership of the House of Representatives to declare the seat of Hon. Yakubu Dogara representing Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Federal Constituency, vacant following his defection from the party to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The party who made the call in a letter addressed to…
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Serap to NASS: ‘Publish all reports of corruption probes since 1999’
The Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan and Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila have been sent a request by a Nigerian group, to urgently publish all reports of corruption probes by the National Assembly since 1999. Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) made the request under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act. The…
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BREAKING: Gbajabiamila orders commencement of legal proceedings against Akpabio
The House of Representatives has initiated moves to sue Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio for perjury. Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila said at plenary on Thursday he has instructed the Clerk to engage lawyers to file the suit after the Minister failed to respond to the House request to publish the list of members…
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NDDC has failed for two decades – Gbajabiamila
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has stated that the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has failed the region and its people for over two decades. According to him, the commission failed in spite of the huge funds at its disposal. Speaking during an investigative hearing on the alleged financial mismanagement in…
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Rape now a pandemic in Nigeria – Gbajabiamila
Gender activists under the auspices of the Movement Against Rape and Sexual Violence visited the House of Representatives on Wednesday to seek action against rape and other sexual crimes. Wife to the Governor of Kaduna State, Aisha el-Rufai, led the team that visited the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, at his office. Gbajabiamila, while responding to MARS-V,…
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20 years After: NDDC still stinks of corruption – Gbajabiamila
By Emman Ovuakporie The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila on Wednesday said 20 years after its creation, the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC stinks of corruption. The speaker made this assertion while declaring open an investigative hearing on alleged corruption on the government interventionist agency by the committee on NDDC. In his…