{"id":13297,"date":"2018-11-07T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13297"},"modified":"2018-11-07T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T17:50:00","slug":"nigeria-guinea-bissau-rwanda-pledge-parliamentary-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13297","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria, Guinea Bissau, Rwanda Pledge Parliamentary Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m8332096252250828909\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the Guinea Bissau\u2019s Parliament and President of the African Parliamentary Union, Cipriano Cassama and the Speaker of the Rwandan Parliament, Rt. Hon. Bernard Makuza, have pledged to work together to advance the fortunes of their individual parliaments.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\nThis assertion was made when Cassama and Makuza &#8211; who are in Nigeria to attend the 73rd Session of Executive Committee and 41st Conference of Speakers of the African Parliamentary Union (APU), visited Saraki, according to a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the President of the Senate, Sanni Onogu, in Abuja.<br \/>\nSaraki thanked the delegates for the visit and noted that the conference was necessary to enable \u201cAfrican Parliamentarians \u201cmeet, interact and share ideas\u201d on how to better serve the people and solve prevailing challenges in individual countries.<br \/>\n\u201cThe more we spend time together and share ideas, the better for our people,\u201d Saraki stated. \u201cIt is better for us to build this relationship and deepen the bilateral relationship between our countries.<br \/>\n\u201cI believe by coming together, we can better respond to the challenge of terrorism, organized crime, good governance, fight against corruption and conduct credible elections that will help our democracies and project our continent in better light.\u201d<br \/>\nHe noted that since the world is looking up to Africa for growth, national parliaments must work to lay solid legal foundations that would help attract and encourage\u00a0 investments to their countries.<br \/>\nCassama lauded the President of the Senate for his progressive leadership of the National Assembly and expressed appreciation for Nigeria\u2019s donation towards the successful conduct of Guinea Bissau\u2019s general elections next year.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have so much to learn from your style of leadership,\u201d Cassama stated.<br \/>\nOn his part, Makuza thanked the President of Senate for the audience and stressed the need for Parliamentary partnership between Nigeria and Rwanda.<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\">\nHe also corroborated Saraki\u2019s assertion that relevant laws are critical to attract investments which will help grow the economy of the African continent.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the Guinea Bissau\u2019s Parliament and President of the African Parliamentary Union, Cipriano Cassama and the Speaker of the Rwandan Parliament, Rt. Hon. Bernard Makuza, have pledged to work together to advance the fortunes of their individual parliaments. This assertion was made when Cassama and Makuza [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13297","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\/13297","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=13297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}