US House Judiciary Committee Votes To Impeach Trump, Capping Damaging Testimony

 After a
grueling 14-plus hours of debate Thursday, the House judiciary
committee advanced two articles of impeachment to a full vote
before the House of Representatives next week, bringing President
Trump one step closer to being impeached.

• The committee was supposed to vote^[1] on the articles
  Thursday, but Democratic chair Jerry Nadler made a surprise
  decision after 11 p.m. EST to hold the vote until Friday morning,
  which immediately angered Republicans.
• Throughout the day, GOP committee members attempted to add five
  amendments to the articles, all of which failed on party line
  votes.
• Rancorous moments peppered the debate, including when Democrat
  Hank Johnson called out^[2] Republican Matt
  Gaetz (who was arrested on suspicion of DUI in 2008) for bringing
  up Hunter Biden’s history of substance abuse: “I would say that the
  pot calling the kettle black is not something that we should
  do.”
• The full House of Representatives is reportedly voting on the
  articles next week^[3], and is likewise
  expected to vote in favor of impeaching Trump since Democrats
  outnumber Republicans.
• Once the House votes in favor of the articles,
  Trump would be impeached^[4]⁠—but the
  Republican-controlled Senate, which would reportedly hold^[5] a trial in January,
  would have to vote in favor of removing him from office.
• During a late Thursday appearance^[6] on Sean Hannity’s
  Fox News show, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said that
  although he would have no choice but to hold a trial, “there is no
  chance the president’s going to be removed from office.”

Chief critic: Trump, who tweeted early on
Friday morning: “How do you get Impeached when you have done
NOTHING wrong.”

How do you get Impeached when you have done
NOTHING wrong (a perfect call), have created the best economy in
the history of our Country, rebuilt our Military, fixed the V.A.
(Choice!), cut Taxes & Regs, protected your 2nd A, created
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, and soooo much more? Crazy!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December
13, 2019^[7]

Key background: There are
two articles of impeachment^[8] against Trump. The
first, abuse of power, accuses the president of pressuring Ukraine
to investigate his political rivals. The second accuses him of
obstructing Congress by refusing to cooperate with the impeachment
inquiry. The inquiry began in September with closed-door hearings
from witnesses before progressing to public hearings. About a dozen
witnesses who gave closed-door testimony repeated it in the public
hearings, which concluded November 21.

Culled from forbes

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Yushau Shuaib Bags NIPR PR Personality of the Year
Award

The founder of PRNigeria^[1]
and author of “An Encounter with the Spymaster,” Mr. Yushau A.
Shuaib has bagged the PR Personality Award from the national
headquarters of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR)
at an event in Lagos.

The President of the Institute, Mallam Mukhtar Sirajo said the
President Award was presented to Shuaib in recognition of his
exemplary contributions towards the advancement of the ideals of
the institute

Mr. Yushau A. Shuaib is a Graduate of Mass-Communication, Bayero
University Kano with a Master’s Degree in Public Relations from the
University of Westminster, London, he is a consummate writer and
crisis-communicator per excellence.

He has practised PR since his university day winning NIPR Best
PR Student in 1992 and later emerged the PR Man of the year in
Kano-Jigawa Chapter in 1995 and Digital PR Personality from Abuja
NIPR Chapter in 2019.

Immediately after his youth service when he won Local, State and
Presidential NYSC awards with automatic employments, he served as
PRO Delta State Government House, Asaba and later Press Secretary
in various Federal Ministries including Information, Finance;
Health; Revenue Commission, and the National Emergency Management
Agency (NEMA).

In the course of his career as a PR person and writer, he has
published over 300 articles in the media. He has consulted for the
Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) and provides crisis
communication services to critical institutions including the
Military, Security, Intelligence and Response Agencies.

Through some of his initiatives, especially the PRNigeria^[2] and Economic
Confidential magazine, his firm has consistently won the African PR
Awards in South-Africa 2016/7, Morocco 2017, Botswana 2018 and
Kigali 2019. At the global scene, his firm remains the only PR
agency in Africa to have consistently won IPRA Golden World Award
on Crisis Management in Qatar 2016, Bulgaria 2017, Spain 2018 and
Armenia 2019.

Some of his published books include: “Writings for Media,”
“Online Public Relations- A Case of Nigeria,””Boko Haram Media War:
An Encounter with the Spymaster”while his new Book is titled
“Award-Winning Crisis Communication Strategies” which is due to be
out in January 2020.

By PRNigeria^[3]