Speaker House of Reps names chairmen of various house committees, APC gets 48, PDP 45

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara yesterday announced the chairmen of the various committees in the House of Representatives. APC is to chair 48 of the committees while PDP will chair 45 of them.  All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has one committee to chair while the Social Democratic Party (SDP) had two.

The following are some of the names of the committee chairmen and their various committees

Abdulmumin Jibrin- House Committee on Appropriation

 Bashir Baballe Ila- House Services Committee

Babangida Ibrahim- Finance Committee

 Zakari Mohammed- Basic Education and Services Committee

Jagaba Adams Jagaba- Committee on Interior

Mohammed Tahir Monguno- Agricultural Production and Services committee

Aminu Suleiman- Tertiary Education

Nkiruka Onyejeocha-  Aviation committee

 Nnenna Ukeje- Foreign Affairs

 Jones Onyereri- Banking and Currency

 Shehu Shagari- Judiciary 

Nicholas Mutu- NDDC.

Rima Shawulu- Army

Zephaniah Jisalo- FCT Area Council & Ancillary Matters,

 Agbedi Frederick- Gas Resources.

Betty Apiafi- Health Institution

Jephter Foingha- National Planning & Economic Development

Victor Nwokolo- Petroleum Resources (Upstream)

Akinlaja Joseph-Petroleum Resources (Downstream), 

Patrick Asadu- Harbour & Waterways

Daniel Effiong- Power

Wole Oke- Public Procurement

Beni Lar- Science & Technology

Toby Okechukwu- Works

Oladele Kayode, Financial Crimes

 Samuel Okon Ikon- Inter-parliamentary Relations

 Timothy Golu- Legislative Budget and Research

Seven newly constituted committees namely Agricultural Colleges and Institutions; Basic Education and Services; Delegated Legislation; FCT Judiciary; Health Institutions; IDPs, Refugees and Initiatives on North East; Insurance and Actuarial Matters; Tertiary Education and Services were announced.