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The lawmaker representing Oyo North in the Senate, Fatai Buhari, yesterday, challenged anyone that wants President Muhammadu Buhari impeached to come with one good reason to do so. The senator stated this when he paid a Sallah visit to former Governor Rashidi Ladoja of Oyo State. He said that impeaching a President has a process, cautioning against causing problems that could not be easily solved. He said: “Impeaching the President has a process. Anybody calling for the impeachment of the President should give a good reason. Then, we shall table it, discuss it, and the two chambers must com...

•IG to reorganise police to check promoters of separatist agenda Deji Elumoye, Chuks Okocha, Olawale Ajimotokan and Kingsley Nwezeh in Abuja But for the various interventions of the 36 state governments, the security crisis currently bedeviling Nigeria would have worsened, governors have said. The governors, rising from a meeting, which began late Wednesday in Abuja, and ended in the wee hours of yesterday, expressed concerns about the growing insecurity in the country. Also, the Acting Inspector General of Police (IG), Usman Baba, has promised to reorganise the police to check those promot...

Nigerians Generated Over N10bn To Ease Petrol Supply To Non-functional NNPC Floating Stations In Three Years Each of these stations costed the federal government between N700m to N950m but several have been out of commission for an estimated five years now. by Kelechukwu Ogu Apr 12, 2021 In October 2006, George Marks, the then Managing Director of Julius Berger, described the mega stations it constructed with the NNPC as ‘technological wonders.’ Fifteen years later, some of these technological wonders, have become rotten mammoths floating on the waterways of the Niger Delta. As early as J...

The Senate and Its Hasty Passage of A Phoney Forensic Bill, By Innocent Okwuosa Members of the Senate and House of Representatives should disassociate themselves from this bill, lest Nigerians become a laughing stock. ADVERTISEMENT When quacks gather together to label themselves as professionals, quackery first rears up its ugly head in the uncertainty of what is being promoted: Is it Forensic Investigative Professionals or Forensic and Investigative Professionals? Let me remind Nigerians that these people started as forensic auditors and up till now, they are not sure what they are… On Feb...

On Tuesday, the National Assembly will resume from its Christmas vacation to attend to pressing national issues, including the outstanding bills, writes Udora Orizu The two chambers of the National Assembly, which have been on Christmas break since December 22 2020, will resume plenary on Tuesday, February 9 for the commencement of the 2021 legislative calendar. The lawmakers, who were initially billed to resume plenary on Tuesday, January 26th postponed their resumption by two weeks to enable federal lawmakers belonging to the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) participate in the revalida...