{"id":91606,"date":"2023-07-05T10:59:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T09:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation"},"modified":"2023-07-05T13:47:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T12:47:59","slug":"uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation","title":{"rendered":"Uproar in House of Representatives over sitting arrangement, office allocation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Some House of Representatives members in Abuja on Tuesday protested the alleged discrimination in the allocation of seats and offices for the members.<\/p>\n

The lawmakers, numbering about 100, who openly protested against the perceived tendencies, said the ugly trend was capable of causing setbacks in legislative activities.<\/p>\n

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the House Committee on Welfare, chaired by Rep. Olawale Raji (APC-Lagos), was saddled with allocating seats for members.<\/p>\n

The protesting lawmakers were mostly first-timers, who described the seats allocated to them at one of the temporary chambers as unconducive as they were on the third floor.<\/p>\n

Also, some of them protested the allocation of offices to the members.<\/p>\n

According to the list issued by the Welfare Committee, 240 members were allotted for the second floor, while a few members, including some first-timers, were allocated seats on the ground floor.<\/p>\n

Responding to the development, the Speaker of the House, Rep. Tajudeen Abbas, called for calm while assuring that the main Chamber, which is currently undergoing renovation, would be completed before the House resumed from recess.<\/p>\n

Rep. Khadijat Bukar-Ibrahim, Chairman, Ad hoc Committee on Media, said there was a slight uproar during the plenary session.<\/p>\n

She said the allocation of offices is the responsibility of the Welfare Committee, which had actually done the work and allocated offices to every member.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd as far as the seats are concerned, you know we are in a temporary seating area, so there are not enough seats for all members to sit downstairs. So, some have to be accommodated upstairs.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, there was a slight uproar, not a huge one about not hearing the mic from downstairs,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Speaker had since directed that members should occupy any seat they find downstairs and everybody was happy,\u201d Bukar-Ibrahim added.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Nigeria<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Some House of Representatives members in Abuja on Tuesday protested the alleged discrimination in the allocation of seats and offices for the members. The lawmakers, numbering about 100, who openly protested against the perceived tendencies, said the ugly trend was capable of causing setbacks in legislative activities. The News Agency of Nigeria […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":91605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,2660],"tags":[347,1570,2140,254],"class_list":["post-91606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-abuja","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"\nUproar in House of Representatives over sitting arrangement, office allocation - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Some House of Representatives members in Abuja on Tuesday protested the alleged discrimination in the allocation of seat ...\" \/>\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\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Uproar in House of Representatives over sitting arrangement, office allocation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some House of Representatives members in Abuja on Tuesday protested the alleged discrimination in the allocation of seat ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-07-05T09:59:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-05T12:47:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/07\/sm_1688544957.98651.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"744\" \/>\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\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Uproar in House of Representatives over sitting arrangement, office allocation\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-05T09:59:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-05T12:47:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation\"},\"wordCount\":318,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/07\/sm_1688544957.98651.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abuja\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation\",\"name\":\"Uproar in House of Representatives over sitting arrangement, office allocation - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/07\/sm_1688544957.98651.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-05T09:59:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-05T12:47:59+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Some House of Representatives members in Abuja on Tuesday protested the alleged discrimination in the allocation of seat ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/07\/sm_1688544957.98651.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/07\/sm_1688544957.98651.jpg\",\"width\":1080,\"height\":744,\"caption\":\"Uproar in House of Representatives over sitting arrangement, office allocation\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Uproar in House of Representatives over sitting arrangement, office allocation\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Uproar in House of Representatives over sitting arrangement, office allocation - Nigeria","description":"Some House of Representatives members in Abuja on Tuesday protested the alleged discrimination in the allocation of seat ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Uproar in House of Representatives over sitting arrangement, office allocation","og_description":"Some House of Representatives members in Abuja on Tuesday protested the alleged discrimination in the allocation of seat ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2023-07-05T09:59:59+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-07-05T12:47:59+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1080,"height":744,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/07\/sm_1688544957.98651.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Uproar in House of Representatives over sitting arrangement, office allocation","datePublished":"2023-07-05T09:59:59+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-05T12:47:59+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation"},"wordCount":318,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/07\/sm_1688544957.98651.jpg","keywords":["Abuja","Africa Press","Africa Press-Nigeria","Nigeria"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","homepage-english","Policy","to-homepage"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation","name":"Uproar in House of Representatives over sitting arrangement, office allocation - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/07\/sm_1688544957.98651.jpg","datePublished":"2023-07-05T09:59:59+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-05T12:47:59+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Some House of Representatives members in Abuja on Tuesday protested the alleged discrimination in the allocation of seat ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/07\/sm_1688544957.98651.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/07\/sm_1688544957.98651.jpg","width":1080,"height":744,"caption":"Uproar in House of Representatives over sitting arrangement, office allocation"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/uproar-in-house-of-representatives-over-sitting-arrangement-office-allocation#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Uproar in House of Representatives over sitting arrangement, office allocation"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}