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Honourable contemplates impeachment motion against Social Director as House adopts report of FATSSSA Picnic By Kayode Oyeniran Honourable representing 400 level Psychology constituency at the FATSSSA House of Representatives (FHR), Simon Bullem, has contemplated an impeachment motion against the Social Director of the Faculty of the Social Sciences Students’ Association (FATSSSA), Miss Oluwatosin Ajao. He made this public while speaking on the floor of the house in the last sitting of the FHR at the weekend. It would be recalled that Ajao had been previously indicted for incurring expenses with proceeds of the Smoove Picnic tickets prior to the approval of the budget by the House. While reacting during Ajao’s presentation of her Apology Letter to the House and the report of the Picnic, Hon. Bullem explained that he already contemplated an impeachment motion against the Social Director noting that he only needed to convince some other Honourables at the background to m...

By Kayode Oyeniran  The FATSSSA House Representatives (FRH) in its sitting on Friday 9th August ,2019 approved the sum of N167, 000 for the upcoming Total Students’ Conference. The approval came after the N207, 900 budget presented to the House by the President was debated on the floor of the house. While speaking on the budget, the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Williams Ugwuja emphasised the need for the executive council to source for funds beyond the FATSSSA purse so as to ensure that other programs of the administration do not lack the needed funds. The President, Mr. John Adeleke while presenting the budget noted some of the efforts taken to get sponsors for the Conference and he expressed his optimism about getting positive feedback from their intending sponsors. Among items included in the budget are: Publicity, Decoration, Sound System, Refreshment, Photography, Plaques, Essay Contest, Transportation and Miscellaneous. It would be recalled that the Total Students’ Conf...

By Kayode Oyeniran The FATSSSA House of Representatives (FHR) at the weekend held a legislative forum at the Post Graduate Seminar Room of the department of Political Science. The forum which had in attendance legislators from across the various legislative councils in the Faculty of the Social Sciences was aimed at orientating legislators on the currents and dynamics of legislative proceedings. While speaking at the forum, Rt. Hon. Onifade Bello, a one-time speaker of the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) stressed the need for honourable members to acquaint themselves with the requisite knowledge needed to carry out their legislative assignments. In his remark, Onifade Bello emphasised the need for legislators to acquaint themselves with the content of the constitution, to give room for quality debate on the floor of the house and ensure that objectivity takes the forefront in their debates. “ As a legislator, you need to know your debate should be of good quality, it s...