REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE ON THE COURTESY CALL WITH THE SHEHU OF BAMA LGA ON THE PROPOSED BAMA INITIATIVE ON 25TH OCTOBER 2017
1. It is a great pleasure to welcome the noble traditional ruler of the resilient people of Bama, The Shehu of Bama, His Royal Highness, Alhaji Umar Ibn Kyari El-Kanemi It is my pleasure to welcome you to the National Assembly today. I always look forward to opportunity to interact directly with community leaders, especially with you and the representative heads of Local Government Authorities directly impacted by the terrorist insurgency in your region. 2. The causes of the current situation in the North-East can be summed up
AN ADDRESS PRESENTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, HIS EXCELLENCY SENATOR (DR.) ABUBAKAR BUKOLA SARAKI ON THE PUBLIC HEARING BY THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS AND TETFUND ON THE MOTION: THE REGULATORY CONFLICT BETWEEN JAMB AND UNIVERSITIES IN OFFERING UNIVERSITY ADMISSION IN NIGERIA; ON 24TH OCTOBER, 2017.
Protocol; I thank the Chairman and members of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND for the privilege to declare open this Public Hearing on the motion: The Regulatory Conflict between Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and Universities in offering University Admission in Nigeria. In recent times, there have been various commentaries and criticisms bordering on the lowering of standards for admission into Universities and the roles played by JAMB, the constitutionally recognized regulatory body on the one hand and the authorities of the
SPEECH DELIVERED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE NIGERIAN SENATE, HIS EXCELLENCY, SENATOR (DR.) ABUBAKAR BUKOLA SARAKI (C.O.N) AT THE 137TH ASSEMBLY OF THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION (IPU) – ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, 14-18 OCTOBER, 2017.
PROTOCOL. 1.It is indeed my honour to lead the Nigerian delegation to the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), and to address you all today. Few locations offer a more pertinent setting for this debate than the storied city of St. Petersburg. This classical city of culture – home of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin and other masters of world literature – bears its own testimony to War and Peace. This was once the scene of a siege, the longest in history, the causes of which