{"id":41030,"date":"2021-04-13T19:19:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T19:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=41030"},"modified":"2021-04-13T17:03:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T17:03:56","slug":"protesting-legislative-aides-hold-speaker-gbajabiamila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/protesting-legislative-aides-hold-speaker-gbajabiamila","title":{"rendered":"Protesting legislative aides hold Speaker, Gbajabiamila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Legislative aides, on Tuesday, welcomed lawmakers of the upper and lower legislative Chambers with protest over non payment of allowances.<\/p>\n<p>The aides earlier positioned themselves and blocked the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila whom they said has been feigning ignorance of their demands since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Having done with the Speaker, protesters made deft moves to get the attention of the Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan.<\/p>\n<p>They are yet to be attended to as of the time of this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Legislative aides, on Tuesday, welcomed lawmakers of the upper and lower legislative Chambers with protest over non payment of allowances. The aides earlier positioned themselves and blocked the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila whom they said has been feigning ignorance of their demands since 2019. Having done with the Speaker, protesters made deft moves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":41029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1578,1507,3834,254],"class_list":["post-41030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-breaking","tag-gbajabiamila","tag-legislative-aides","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Protesting legislative aides hold Speaker, Gbajabiamila - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Legislative aides, on Tuesday, welcomed lawmakers of the upper and lower legislative Chambers with protest over non paym ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/protesting-legislative-aides-hold-speaker-gbajabiamila\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Protesting legislative aides hold Speaker, Gbajabiamila\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Legislative aides, on Tuesday, welcomed lawmakers of the upper and lower legislative Chambers with protest over non paym ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/protesting-legislative-aides-hold-speaker-gbajabiamila\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-13T19:19:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/04\/img-6075ced2aa64e.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/protesting-legislative-aides-hold-speaker-gbajabiamila#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/protesting-legislative-aides-hold-speaker-gbajabiamila\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Protesting legislative aides hold Speaker, Gbajabiamila\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-13T19:19:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/protesting-legislative-aides-hold-speaker-gbajabiamila\"},\"wordCount\":86,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/protesting-legislative-aides-hold-speaker-gbajabiamila#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/04\/img-6075ced2aa64e.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"breaking\",\"Gbajabiamila\",\"legislative aides\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/protesting-legislative-aides-hold-speaker-gbajabiamila#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/protesting-legislative-aides-hold-speaker-gbajabiamila\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/protesting-legislative-aides-hold-speaker-gbajabiamila\",\"name\":\"Protesting legislative aides hold Speaker, Gbajabiamila - 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