Members of House of Representatives yesterday threatened to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari for expending $496 million on military ware without approval by National Assembly. The lawmakers were angered by content of a letter Mr Buhari sent to the House, which was read at plenary session yesterday. In the letter, titled, ‘Supplementary input to 2018 Appropriation Bill: Purchase of Super Tucano Aircraft from United States Government,’ Buhari said he granted an anticipatory approval for the amount, believing that the Legislature would not object to it. But soon after Dogara read the letter, Kingsley Chinda (PDP, Rivers) raised a constitutional point of…

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has called for prayers for leaders in the country, saying governance is spiritual warfare. Osinbajo spoke on Tuesday at the inauguration of the auditorium of Deeper Christian Life Ministry headquarters at Gbagada, Lagos State. Osinbajo said the inauguration was auspicious because it came at a time when the nation is confronting different security challenges. He, however, faulted people who criticise Christians in government. While making reference to how Esther in the Bible delivered the Israelites, he urged Christians to pray more, saying governance is a spiritual warfare. He said, “Those of us Christians in government, we are…

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Kim Jong Un wants a historic, high-stakes meeting as soon as possible and suggested the North Korean dictator has been "very open" and "very honorable," a sharply different assessment of a leader he once denounced as "Little Rocket Man." United States and North Korea have been negotiating a summit between Trump and Kim to be held in May or June to broker a deal on Pyongyang's nuclear program. Trump, who has struck a decidedly optimistic tone on the situation in recent days, said Tuesday that the United States and North Korea were having "good…

There was protest Tuesday morning at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, as the probe panel set up by the institution to look into sex-for-mark scandal involving a student, Monica Osagie, and a lecturer of department of Accounting, Richard Akindele, attempted to deny a lawyer of the student access to its proceedings. Miss Osagie’s lawyer, who is a representative of National Human Rights Commission, and journalists were denied entrance by the school’s security personnel to the Pro – Chancellor’ s Lodge on the campus where the investigative panel was sitting. However, the student’s lawyers led by Executive Director of Women Advocates,…