Members of the House of Representatives did not mince words on Tuesday when they said President Muhammadu Buhari committed an “impeachable offence” by authorising the purchase of $462million jets for the military without appropriation by the National Assembly. Buhari is buying 12 Tucano aircraft from the US with the money. The planes will be delivered in 2020. The lawmakers became angry as soon as the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, read a letter from Buhari, informing the House that the expenditure was done in “anticipation of approval” by the National Assembly. They noted that the letter was a “mere afterthought”, as the expenditure had been done already. The anger caused a brief rowdiness on the floor, forcing Dogara to intervene in a bid to calm down the lawmakers. The eventual decision on Tuesday was that the letter should be properly tabled for debate on another date by the House so that it would take a position on the next line of action. But, before the resolution, it was the Chair
A cop with a smartphone captured the moment Satish, 35, put his bag on the floor of a Police station and then pulled out his wife's severed head and held it up. The man entered the police station, in the town of Ajjampura in the Chikkamagaluru district of southern India's Karnataka state, brandishing a machete and saying he had murdered his wife, Roopa. "This is my wife, sir. I gave her all the love I could," he tells shocked police officers before one shouts: "Put it back inside!" Satish replaces the head in the bag before telling cops that his wife was cheating on him and he had lost his temper after allegedly seeing her with her lover. He also complains that Roopa had chosen his rival, named as Sunil, over him despite the fact the man was a manual worker with a criminal record. Satish told cops that Roopa had taken out a loan for £3,170 and given the money to her lover. Officers had to calm Satish down so they could begin taking his statement and launch