By Kayode Araba.
Thus, President of the Senate and Leader of Nigeria’s delegation to the just concluded 148th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), in Geneva Switzerland, Godswill Akpabio, Thursday, arrived the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. He was received on arrival, by his Deputy Chief of Staff, Dr Saviour Enyiekere and some of his aids
And the senate president said they met with the Director General of WTO Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iwala and we discovered that their fund in hanging which our women can leverage on to improve their business, small and medium scale enterprises and we shall be discussing that with the executive, particularly with Mr. President and set up a committee to work with them to ensure that Nigerian women also benefit from it.
He said we noticed that almost everything that I said is almost what is happening now. Isreal has agreed to release prisoners and at the same time, the other side have started negotiating to also release hostages. So we believe the major thing now is ceasefire to allow for humanitarian aids get to the children, women and the people of Gaza and after that, we can discuss some sustainable means of bringing peace to that region.
He further stated Nigeria cannot be an island, with 250million people, our voices should always be heard where ever we go to in any part of the globe I think what we brought back was the integrity of Nigeria and the fact that we are back at world stage with President Bola Tinubu, don”t forget that he is also the chairman of ECOWAS. It is important they hear from him through the parliament.
Additional, reacting to the letter from Senator Abdul Ningi’s lawyer, Chief Femi Falana, SAN that Senator Ningi be reinstated and paid all his entitlement in seven days or face court action, Akpabio said although he’s yet to see the letter by Ningi’s lawyer Femi Falana, the matter would be resolved like a family affair and hopefully Ningi would return shortly.
