SENATE ADJOURNS EMERGENCY PLENARY ON STATE POLICE OVER REP’S DEATH.

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 SENATE ADJOURNS EMERGENCY PLENARY ON STATE POLICE OVER REP’S DEATH. The Senate today suspended consideration of the highly anticipated State Police Bill and all other legislative business at its emergency plenary session to honour the memory of Hon. Yaya Tongo, a member of the House of Representatives, whose death cast a sombre mood over the National Assembly. The upper chamber had reconvened from recess amid expectations that lawmakers would accelerate action on the proposed constitutional amendment seeking to establish state police across the federation, a measure widely seen as a major step in the ongoing effort to reform Nigeria’s security architecture. However, proceedings were cut short after Senate President Godswill Akpabio announced the death of Tongo, who represented the Kwami/Funakaye Federal Constituency of Gombe State in the House of Representatives. Hon. Tongo passed away at Nizamiye Hospital in Abuja on June 12, 2026, following a brief illness. His death triggered a...

PRESIDENT ELECT BUHARI,HOLDS SECRET MEETING WITH PETROL IMPORTERS TODAY.

                    According to sources,the news of the secret meeting was broken today by Tokunbo Korodo,the south west Chairman of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers {NUPENG}.He said he had the information that the Deport and Petroleum Products Marketing Associstion {DAPPMA} is meeting with the president elect on the subsidy issue.He said ''I think the outcome of that meeting may determine if DAPPMA will reopen the deports for loading or import more into the country.The prevailing fuel scarcity may worsen if depot owners shut their deports to tanker drivers,no tanker driver had loaded petroleum products as at 1:30pm on monday.What i was told was that the Independent deport owners may have shut their depots to tankers driver because of the over N200billion owed them by the Federal Government.The relocation of the tankers from highways and the inabiity to load fuel at the depots were responsible for the free flow of traffic in Apapa axis.The recent directives by the Lagos state Government for tanker drivers to relocate from the highways within 48 hours,had not yielded any result.Tanker drivers have vacated the highways but other heavy duty vehicles,especially container driver have taken over.The government cannot chase tanker drivers away for other heavy duty vehicles to occupy the space.Lagosians should know that tanker have not been the problem of gridlock in Lagos.We occupied the road because we are told to pick fuel only at Apapa''.He urged the government to settle importers for calm to return to the sector.One more picture below.                                                                                                                                              Tokunbo Korodo

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