The speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, on Monday, said that Nigeria’s foreign policy in a fast-changing world must interrogate funding of terrorism and climate change.The speaker said that the nation’s foreign policy should seek to engage other nations in finding solutions to new challenges and threats, so that collectively they can address the issues.
”Pledging the support of the 9th House under his leadership and the entire National Assembly to achieve this, the Speaker recalled how the resort to ‘parliamentary diplomacy’ in recent times by the Legislature helped to douse tensions between Nigeria and some African countries.Gbajabiamila informed the session how the intervention of the House helped in checking the xenophobic attacks in South Africa from becoming a full-blown crisis between Nigeria and its Southern African sister.