Senior Advocate of Nigeria, San, Femi Falana, has said that Abubakar Malami risk being removed as the attorney-general of the federation (AGF) if he fails to secure the release of Omoyele Sowore. 

 

Last Friday, Malami took over Sowore’s case from the Department of State Services, DSS, and with this development, Falana, counsel to the activist, asked him to use his office tosecure Sowore’s release.

 

The AGF, however, said he cannot take any decision on Sowore’s release.

 

Femi Falana said the AGF has not taken note of the legal implications of taking over the case.

 

The senior lawyer said on legal principle, they are compelled to ask the AGF to direct the DSS to release Sowore without further delay.

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has said apart from the members of the National Assembly, Nigerians too can determine the fate of the hate speech bill.

 

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has said the Senate would pass a $29.96 billion loan request by President Muhammadu Buhari.

 

In in his recent letter, the President explained that the external borrowing plan targets projects cuts across all sectors with special emphasis on infrastructure, agriculture, health, education, water supply, growth and employment generation.

 

Lawan said the President had provided necessary details of what the loan would be used for in his new request.

                  

President Buhari had in November forwarded a request to the Senate to reconsider and approve the federal government’s 2016 to 2018 external borrowing plan.

The State Government has said it will on Wednesday open bid for firms that showed interest in the construction of the Fourth Mainland Bridge.

 

The state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, stated this while addressing the press as part of activities lined up to mark Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s 200 days in office.

 

Omotoso, who said local and international firms expressed interest in the construction of the bridge, said the bidding would be done at a ceremony to be hosted by the state government.

 

The commissioner added that The Sanwo-Olu administration had put a special focus on infrastructure, traffic management and transportation to reduce gridlock.

 

All is not well within the Presidency over alleged misappropriation of N40 billion by the Federal Inland Revenue Service under the immediate past Chairman, Babatunde Fowler.

 

Fowler who was appointed to superintendent Nigeria’s apex tax office was recently replaced by President Buhari with a tax consultant, Muhammad Nami.

 

Sources from the Villa said the ‘misappropriated’ money, which was purportedly used as ‘political campaign fund’ during 2019 general elections, did not sit well with the ‘Seat of Power’ as probe has been ordered and culprits to be prosecuted.

 

While Mr. Fowler is said to be caught in the web of the said fund, an influential and powerful political gladiator in the Southwest was said to have received a ‘paltry’ sum of N3 billion, which is less than 10 percent of the ‘campaign fund.’

 

It was gathered that already, some top management staff of FIRS have been arrested and are being interrogated on corruption allegations by anti-graft agencies.

 

Recall that in August, the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, had queried Fowler for what the Presidency considered as unacceptably dwindling tax revenue since 2015 when the Buhari administration took over.

Kyari, in the query letter, ordered Fowler to explain why in 2015, FIRS set N4.7 trillion target but was only able to make N3.7 trillion in the actual collection.