Akinwumi made the call in a letter written to the House of Reps in response to an invitation to his client, Oxford International Group Limited.
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The lawmakers and CSOs hit the streets of Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, recently to protest the development.
Abia State PDP Vice Chairman/Acting State Publicity Secretary, Abraham Amah, spoke on the party’s position.
The News Agency of Nigeria is reporting that the group’s National President, Alhaji Usman Alhaji, made the plea.
The court ordered the Rt. Hon. Martin Amaewhule to stop parading as the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly.
The Speaker, Blessing Agbebaku, announced the suspension at resumption of plenary in Benin.
The National Assembly constitutionally makes laws and acts as checks and balances on the executive and judiciary.
The lawmakers also claimed that some security agents have been sent to hunt for them without any reason, a situation which made them to go into hiding.
The allegation was made in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Benue State, Sir Tersoo Kula.
The passed motion was sponsored by the representative of Orlu Constituency, Ikenna Ihezuo (APC) on Tuesday.
Olajide, the Chairman, House Committee on Information Communication Technology, said this on Wednesday.
This came as members loyal to both factional Speakers allegedly held separate sittings at different locations.
Some lawmakers in the Rivers State House of Assembly loyal to Governor Siminalayi Fubara have elected Edison Ehie as the new Speaker.
A call has gone to lawmakers in the Houses of Assembly throughout Nigeria to repeal dethronement clauses in the laws of their respective states. According to the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) which made the call, this will make it impossible for governors to depose traditional rulers.
The Governor of Ebonyi State, Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru has approved the release of outstanding severance allowances to former members of the State House of Assembly, amounting to about N16m.
Following a development that saw the Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Hyacinth Dajoh on Thursday, refuse to make the commissioners designate submitted by Governor Hyacinth Alia known to the public, a pressure group, Congress of Idoma Media Practitioners has warned that Zone C part of the state must not be shortchanged.
The Senate has described as misplaced, a comment credited to a chieftain of the Labour Party, Professor Pat Utomi, over the decision of the Senate to stop the planned increase of electricity tariffs which would further increase the suffering of the masses.
Niger State lawmakers have called on the State Governor, Rt. Hon. Umar Bago to adjust the list of commissioner nominees he forwarded to the State House of Assembly for the sake of equity and fairness before the screening and confirmation day.
The recurrent expenditure includes N18.5 billion for personnel cost, N8.2 billion for overhead cost and N19 billion for consolidated fund charges, while the capital expenditure includes N4 billion counterpart funding and N15.5 distributable capital.
This was made known to journalists by the Deputy Chairman House Committee on Health, Ali Kalat, on Tuesday in Kaduna.