House speakership race tears minority caucus

proper briefing.

But the minority parties forum at the meeting attended by 68 members settled for Abass and Kalu sequel to a motion moved by Tijani Abdulkadir (NNPP-Kano) and seconded by Agbodike Pascal (APGA-Anambra).

Reading a communique’, leader of the forum, Iduma Igariwey (PDP-Ebonyi) affirmed the adoption of the APC backed lawmakers for speaker and deputy speaker.

“We, the members of the under listed political parties elected into the 10th Assembly of the House of Representatives, having reviewed the number and composition of the 10th Assembly and having considered the need for the minority parties to play an effective, crucial, and credible role in the composition of the leadership and running of the 10th Assembly hereby resolve as follows:

“That we will be united and focused on the primary responsibility of the minority parties in the 10th Assembly, which is to provide a vibrant and credible Opposition in Parliament for the entrenchment of good governance in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“That we will severally and jointly work for the passage of laws and motions, which will promote the prosperity and wellbeing of Nigerians and advance the civil liberties and benefits entrenched in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“That in furtherance of our resolve to play a leading role in the formation of the leadership of the 10th Assembly and as a result of our diligent interactions with all aspirants for the position of Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, we hereby resolve to support the duo of Tajudeen Abbas and Benjamin Kalu respectively as Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives.

“That we have found in the two persons of Tajudeen Abbas and Benjamin Kalu, a leadership that will allow for fairness, equity as well as provide equal platform for all political parties represented in Parliament to have a say in the running of the legislature and expression of alternate views on issues of public interest.

“That in the next few days we will be meeting in a larger caucus of the minority parties to discuss and formalise the adoption of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker designates of the 10th Assembly of the House of Representatives.”

On the other hand, Afam Ogene, the co-spokesperson of ‘greater majority’ also at a meeting in Abuja said a committee set up by the caucus met with APC speakership aspirants and all of them seemed to be qualified for position.

He promised that the details of the meeting with the aspirants will not be divulged yet until other members are briefed.

“We did met with those aspiring for the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives, but because we have not briefed our members, I will not go into details of our interface.

“But I can assure you everyone that put him or herself running for the position appears to be qualified,” Ogene said.

Plastic Pollution: Researchers call for collaboration, enforcement of regulations

Researchers in Circular Plastic Economy have called for collaborations among stakeholders, incentives and enforcement of regulations to solve the challenge of plastic pollution.

They made the call at the opening of the second Stakeholders’ Engagement Workshop on Circular Plastic Economic Innovation Hub in Ibadan

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the project is being funded by British Council in partnership with Pan African University, Life and Earth Sciences Institute (PAULESI)

Other collaborators are De Montfort University, Leicester; Co-Creation Hub; Northumbria University, Newcastle and Staffordshire University, UK.

In his remarks, the Principal Investigator of the Project, Prof. Muyiwa Oyinlola of the De Montfort University, Leicester, said the project was to build the capacity of Africans to develop local solutions to solve problems of plastic pollution as against importing solutions from elsewhere.

“We want Africans to build the capacity of Africans to solve Africa’s challenges and one of the ways to do that is through our universities.

“This is one of the activities that we are doing, which is bringing stakeholders together for us to have solutions that can result in systemic changes and so we need to collaborate across different boundaries, across sectors and people,” Oyinlola said.

He stressed the need for more government involvement in terms of policies and regulations through incentives to consumers and innovators to solve the problem of plastic waste.

In her keynote speech, the Co-Principal Investigator from Prof. Titilayo Akinlabi, Northumbria University, Newcastle, said the project in the first phase had been able to establish innovation hubs in four universities in Nigeria.

She said the hubs situated in Ahmadu Bello University Zaria; Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife; University of Nigeria, Nsukka; and the University of Lagos had different objectives aimed at solving the plastic pollution problem.

“We want to get these hubs well established, grounded and fully sponsored for them to deliver on their goals as they have special areas they are looking at, from crushing of the PET bottles to melting and extruding materials to finetuning it into filaments to fit into the 3D printer.

“UNN is looking into how to use electrical waste materials to build a 3D printer. So far, all of them are still at the preliminary stages.

“We are reviewing the work that has been done and we are looking at being fully established with getting support from academia, students and early career researchers,” Akinlabi said.NAN

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10th Speakership: Rep member-elect commends APC over zoning

House of Representatives

Member-elect (APCNasarawa), Rep.

Jeremiah Umaru has lauded the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the zoning of the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and that of the Deputy Speaker.

He made this known while fielding questions from newsmen on the sideline of the induction of the second batch of Members-elect of the National Assembly in Abuja on Monday.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Tajudeen Abbas and Benjamin Kalu have been unveiled as APC consensus candidates for Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives .

Umaru who is to represent Akwanga/Nasarawa Eggon/ Wamba Federal Constituency, said that he was in support of the zoning arrangement of principal officers of the 10th National Assembly.

The incoming lawmaker who belongs a group of “Young Legislators of 40 Years Bellow” said that: “We are group of 42 young legislators.

“We are for zoning; I’m an APC person and I believe in zoning. I’m for Rep. Tajudeen Abbas,” he said

Umaru also said that he would give priority to security-related motions and bills when the 10th House of Representatives would be inaugurated in June.

“We are going to come up with motions so that there will be presence of military formations in all the flash points especially the recent crisis in Karu.

“I am going to raise bills and motions to check the kidnappings around Nasarawa Eggon and Wamba,” he said.

He also said that he had gained knowledge on powers of the legislature and the structure of the National Assembly from the induction programme.

“Members were adequately tutored on their expectations while carrying out their legislative duties,” Umaru said. (NAN)