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

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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OBJ to Gbajabiamila: ‘Your statement on my meeting with Tinubu is fake and a disservice to his ambition’

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s former President has warned supporters of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress Presidential candidate, over the claim that he has endorsed Tinubu. Obasanjo expressed dissatisfaction with what he described as an unauthorised report of the discussion at the closed doors meeting he held with Tinubu. Speaker of House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, in a statement on Thursday said that what transpired during the meeting between Obasanjo and Tinubu was a sign of victory for Tinubu come 2023. The former president in a statement issued by…

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

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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