The crisis rocking the state House of Assembly has taken a new twist as the Speaker of the House, Peter Diah has resigned his position.

 

Mr. Diah who is representing Mbamga constituency for the fifth time is the longest-serving legislator in the house.

 

Confirming his resignation to journalists in Jalingo on Sunday, Peter Diah says he resigned for personal reasons.

 

He was elected the 8th speaker Taraba State House of Assembly following the inauguration of the Eighth Assembly in June 2015 and was re-elected speaker in April 2016 after the declaration for a rerun election in his constituency by the court of Appeal sitting in Yola.

 

 The crisis rocking the state House of Assembly has taken a new twist as the Speaker of the House, Peter Diah has resigned his position.

 

Mr. Diah who is representing Mbamga constituency for the fifth time is the longest-serving legislator in the house.

 

Confirming his resignation to journalists in Jalingo on Sunday, Peter Diah says he resigned for personal reasons.

 

He was elected the 8th speaker Taraba State House of Assembly following the inauguration of the Eighth Assembly in June 2015 and was re-elected speaker in April 2016 after the declaration for a rerun election in his constituency by the court of Appeal sitting in Yola.

 

 

 

The Education Rights Campaign has viewed the controversy generated around the implementation of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System in the public Universities as unnecessary and diversionary.

 

It says this is considering the enormous challenges of underfunding, skyrocketing tuition fees and clampdown on democratic rights of students.

 

National Coordinator of the group, Hassan Soweto said despite corruption in many public tertiary institutions in Nigeria, they do not believe that IPPIS is capable of ensuring sanity, transparency and accountability in the system.

 

Hassan Soweto also renewed call for increased funding to the education sector.

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has alleged that the Federal Government had applied to the FCT High Court for an order to transfer his clients who were arrested for their call for the #RevolutionNow protest from the custody of the DSS to prison.

 

The #RevolutionNow protest convener, Omoyele Sowore, and his co-detainee, Adebayo Bakare, have been in the custody of the DSS since August despite the orders of the Federal High Court in Abuja for their release.

 

Falana, in a letter dated December 1, 2019 and addressed to the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, asked him to direct the DSS to release his clients.

 

He urged Malami to ensure compliance with court orders in the country the same way the federal government complied with that of the British courts on the P&ID case.

Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, has expressed worry over the rising debt profile of the country under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

 

He said the Buhari government has taken more loans in the last three years, than the country did in the 30-year period preceding 2016.

 

According to him, this position was revealed by a former Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria Economic Summit Group, Prof. Anya O. Anya.

 

He stated that it was worrisome how Nigeria had such a monumental increase in borrowings vis-à-vis an unprecedented reduction in investments in education.

 

Atiku spoke while delivering a speech at the 14th Founders’ day ceremony of the American University of Nigeria in Yola, the Adamawa State capital.