{"id":9857,"date":"2018-06-18T22:23:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T22:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=9857"},"modified":"2018-06-18T22:23:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T22:23:52","slug":"saraki-leads-senate-delegation-on-visit-to-russian-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=9857","title":{"rendered":"Saraki Leads Senate Delegation on Visit to Russian Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m3457211427526947909\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, will on Tuesday (tomorrow) lead a Senate delegation on a three day parliamentary visit to Russia, aimed at deepening legislative best practices and\u00a0further strengthening the relationship between both countries.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">During the visit, the President of the Senate is expected to address\u00a0the<span class=\"m_1042000768692574503s10\">\u00a0Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation\u00a0<\/span>(Senate of Russia) and hold meetings<span class=\"m_1042000768692574503s10\">\u00a0with<\/span><span class=\"m_1042000768692574503s10\">\u00a0its\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"m_1042000768692574503s10\">Chairperson of the Federation Council,\u00a0Ms.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"m_1042000768692574503s10\">Valentina\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"m_1042000768692574503s10\">Matviye<wbr \/>nko,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"m_1042000768692574503s11\">Chairman of the State Duma<\/span><span class=\"m_1042000768692574503s11\">, Mr.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"m_1042000768692574503s11\">Vyacheslav<\/span><span class=\"m_1042000768692574503s11\">Volodin and the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"m_1042000768692574503s21\">Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Mr. Mikhail\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"m_1042000768692574503s21\">Bogdanov, to exchange views on issues of Nigerian-Russian cooperation.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">Senators will also hold side meetings with corresponding committees of the Federation Council of Russia.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nSenators on the delegation include\u00a0Senate Minority Leader,\u00a0Senator Godswill Akpabio, Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Olusola Adeyeye, Chairman Senate\u00a0Committee on Foreign Affairs,\u00a0Senator Monsurat Sunmonu,\u00a0Chairman,\u00a0Senate Committee on Air Force,\u00a0Senator Duro Faseyi, Chairman, Senate Committee on Sports and Youth, Senator Obinna Ogba and the Vice-Chairman, Senate Committee on Army,\u00a0Senator Ibrahim A. Danbaba.<br \/>\nAlso on the trip is the\u00a0Chief of Staff to the President of the Senate,\u00a0Dr. Hakeem Baba Ahmed,\u00a0Special Assistant on Partnerships &amp; NGOs\/CSOs to the President of the Senate, Mr. Innocent Onah and the Special Assistant on Events to the President of the Senate,\u00a0Ms. Eniola Shitta.<br \/>\nThe delegation is expected back in the country on June 22, 2018.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, will on Tuesday (tomorrow) lead a Senate delegation on a three day parliamentary visit to Russia, aimed at deepening legislative best practices and\u00a0further strengthening the relationship between both countries. During the visit, the President of the Senate is expected to address\u00a0the\u00a0Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9857","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\/9857","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=9857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}