{"id":36217,"date":"2021-10-13T19:49:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T18:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=36217"},"modified":"2021-10-13T19:49:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T18:49:34","slug":"senate-president-reconstitutes-leadership-of-committees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=36217","title":{"rendered":"Senate President reconstitutes leadership of Committees\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has reconstituted the leadership and membership of some standing and special committees of the Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawan made the announcement moments before the upper chamber adjourned plenary.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those to serve as Chairmen include Senator Sahabi Alhaji Ya\u2019u \u2013 Committee on National Population and National Identity; Senator Adetokunbo Abiru \u2013 Committee on Industry; Senator Saidu Alkali \u2013 Committee on Trade and Investments; Senator Kabiru Barkiya \u2013 Committee on Inter-Parliamentary Affairs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those selected to Vice-Chairmanship and Membership positions are Senator Seriake Dickson \u2013 Committee on Interior; and Member, Committee on Appropriations; Senator Biodun Olujimi \u2013 Member, Committee on Appropriations; Senator Tolu Odebiyi \u2013 Vice Chairman, Committee on Marine Transport; Senator Lekan Mustapha \u2013 Vice Chairman, INEC; Senator Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe \u2013 Vice Chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Others are Senator Moses Cleopas \u2013 Vice Chairman, National Planning and Economic Affairs; Senator Frank Ibezim Chukwuma \u2013 Vice Chairman, Committee on Industry; Senator Nora Ladi Daduut \u2013 Vice Chairman, Committee on Culture and Tourism; and Senator Degi-Biobarakuma Eremieyo Degi \u2013 Member, Committee on Appropriation.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, in his remarks urged the new Chairmen and Vice Chairmen to commence their duties immediately, particularly with work on the 2022 budget.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe expect that these Chairmen and Vice Chairman would start their work immediately, especially to work on the budget defense.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe wish them like all of us, the best of tenure and steady hands on their work\u201d, Lawan said.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u25aa\ufe0e By <strong>Ezrel TABIOWO, Special Assistant (Press)<\/strong> <strong>to President of the Senate\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has reconstituted the leadership and membership of some standing and special committees of the Senate. Lawan made the announcement moments before the upper chamber adjourned plenary.&nbsp; Those to serve as Chairmen include Senator Sahabi Alhaji Ya\u2019u \u2013 Committee on National Population and National Identity; Senator Adetokunbo Abiru \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":33463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4040,209,4041],"class_list":["post-36217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-committees","tag-lawan","tag-reconstitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36217","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=36217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}