{"id":10471,"date":"2018-07-08T12:39:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T12:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=10471"},"modified":"2018-07-08T12:39:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T12:39:01","slug":"saraki-leads-nass-delegation-on-parliamentary-visit-to-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=10471","title":{"rendered":"Saraki Leads NASS \u00a0Delegation on Parliamentary Visit To USA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, will On Monday, lead a National Assembly Delegation to Washington D.C, United States of America, on a Parliamentary visit.<\/div>\n
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Members of the delegation include Leader of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, Minority Whip, Senator Philip Aduda, Chairman, Committee on Rules and Business, Senator Baba Kaka Garbai, Chairman, Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations and Diaspora, Senator Rose Oko and Chairman, House Committee on Telecommunications, Hon. Fijabi Saheed Akinade, Chairman, House Committee On Justice, Hon. Rasak Atunwa and\u00a0Hon. Hassan Saleh, Chairman House Committee on Local Contents.<\/div>\n
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Also on the trip are the Chairman, House Committee on Women in Parliament, Hon. Evelyn Oboro Omavowan, Chairman, House Committee on Freedom of Information,\u00a0Hon. Gabriel Okoye\u00a0<\/span>Onyenwife,\u00a0<\/span>Hon. Sunday Marshal Katung and the Director General, National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), Prof. Ladi Hamalai.<\/div>\n
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The visit, among others, is meant to strengthen parliamentary and diplomatic relationship between Nigeria and the United States.<\/div>\n
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During the trip, Saraki is expected to deliver a\u00a0speech on Nigeria \/US Relations and opportunities at the Council On Foriegn Relations while the\u00a0delegation is expected to meet with the U.S. State Department and\u00a0USAID\u00a0Officials to discuss Energy Development,\u00a0Health,\u00a0Education, Gender Development Initiatives and\u00a0Agriculture.<\/div>\n
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Other highlights of the trip include meetings with select Members of the U.S. House Foreign Relations Committee led by Sen. Ed Royce,\u00a0Ranking Member Eliot Engel, Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations Subcommittee Chairman, Chris Smith and\u00a0Ranking Member Karen Bass to discuss issues of mutual interest to Nigeria and the U.S.A.<\/div>\n
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The delegation will also hold meetings with select members and staff of the Committee on House Admini<\/span>stration, in<\/span>cluding,\u00a0<\/span>Chairman Gregg Harper, Ranking Member Bob Brady and\u00a0Chairman, Cedric Redmond, and Members of the Congressional Black Caucus.<\/div>\n
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In addition, the team will hold talks with the U.S. Congress Leadership, including\u00a0<\/span>Senate Ma<\/span>jority Leader Mitch McConnell,\u00a0<\/span>President\u00a0<\/span>Pro Tempore, Senator Orrin Hatch as well as with members of\u00a0<\/span>Foreign Relations, Committee<\/span>\u00a0on Africa and Global Health.<\/div>\n
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The delegation will also partake in a Policy Forum on \u201cDoing Business and Investing in Nigeria\u201d\u00a0<\/span>hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,\u00a0where Saraki will make a presentation.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, will On Monday, lead a National Assembly Delegation to Washington D.C, United States of America, on a Parliamentary visit. Members of the delegation include Leader of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, Minority Whip, Senator Philip Aduda, Chairman, Committee on Rules and Business, Senator Baba Kaka Garbai, Chairman, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}