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Lawmakers To Consider Drawing Up Trump Impeachment Articles

December 4, 2019 2:36 pm

US lawmakers will start debating whether to draw up articles of impeachment against Donald Trump on Wednesday, based on a report detailing “overwhelming evidence” the US president committed misconduct in office and obstruction.

The House Intelligence Committee report published Tuesday accused Trump of subverting national security as he pressured Ukraine for dirt on a Democratic election rival.

Immediately dismissed by the White House as the product of a “one-sided sham process,” the document forms the basis for the House Judiciary Committee to draw up formal charges, or articles of impeachment, in the coming weeks.

Behind closed doors, the Democratic-led panel …

2023: No Sign That APC, PDP Will Consider Igbo – Elliot Uko

November 16, 2019 7:26 am

President and Founder of Igbo Youth Movement (IYM), Elliot Ugochukwu Uko has said that there is no sign that Nigeria’s two big parties, the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are seriously considering to present an Igbo as candidate in the 2023 presidential election.

Speaking with VINCENT KALU, Uko, who is Secretary of the Eastern Consultative Assembly (ECA), and a member of Southern Leaders of Thought, noted that an Igbo man as president would serve as a soothing balm and a unifying gambit to heal the land.

The 20th anniversary of IYM was …

Always Sanitary Product To Consider Transgender Customers

October 23, 2019 8:12 am

Always Sanitary Product will remove the Venus symbol, a symbolism for feminity, from their products so they can include transgender and nonbinary customers.

This decision will materialise from next year 2020. However, the specific date has not been ascertained.

As reported by CNN,

transgender activists and allies had publicly urged Procter & Gamble to redesign its pad wrapper without the gender symbol, a circle atop a cross. Among their arguments were that not all people who menstruate are women and that not all women menstruate.

There have been different moves to ensure transgender equality as the debates take shape in …

NERC, CBN Consider Ways To Monitor Electricity Market Fund

October 21, 2019 9:47 am

In a bid to curb the poor remittances of power market funds by distribution companies, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) is to set up mechanisms to rectify the Discos’ unruly financial behaviours by monitoring the monthly financial inflows into the country’s power market from the power distribution firms, journalists learnt at the weekend.

According to a source, a new Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and NERC-driven presidential initiative on power market revenue would be rolled out soon to ensure that the Discos no longer default in their minimum monthly remittances to the market.

The source said the CBN was …