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The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 election Omoyele Sowore said Nigerian youths are only interested in being Personal Assistants to Presidents and governors and not in actually attaining a position of higher authority.   Sowore stated this in an interview on Channels Television while …

The lawmaker representing the Abia South Senatorial District, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has said that contrary to the claim that some ranking senators received N500 million from the 2024 budget, he only received N266 million.    Recall that the senator representing Cross River North, Agom Jarigbe on Tuesday, March 12, revealed …

Humanitarians warn that hunger has reached catastrophic levels in northern Gaza. Credit: UNRWA Opinion by Jake Johnson (washington dc) Wednesday, March 13, 2024 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON DC, Mar 13 (IPS) – A group of senators said Tuesday that under U.S. law, the Biden administratio must cut off American military assistance …

Abiru took over from Senate leader Sen. Opeyemi Bamidele (APC-Ekiti), who had been the leader of the forum since the ninth Assembly. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN)reports that Abiru emerged after a meeting of South East, South West and South-South senators in Abuja. Speaking at a news conference after his …

Senate Majority Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele has alleged that some senators want to impeach the current Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, before July 2024.    Contributing to a debate on the claim made by Abdul Ningi, senator representing Bauchi central, that the 2024 budget was padded by N3 trillion, Bamidele claimed that the …

Senate President Godswill Akpabio and the leadership of the Senate are currently having a closed-door meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.     Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin and other top members of the Senate are attending the meeting.     The meeting is coming …

The Senate plenary was further thrown into confusion today March 12, after Senator Ayom Jarigbe made a startling revelation.    The lawmakers were deliberating on the recent allegation made by Senator Ningi made about the 2024 budget being padded when Jarigbe alleged that each Senator, especially the ‘’Senior Senators’ received …

Marjorie Taylor Greene had herself a day in Congress on Tuesday as she complained about crime in Washington, D.C., defended insurrectionists as protestors, and continued to push for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. After a long day, she finally walked out of a Congressional hearing rather than …

Senate Republicans and Democrats on Sunday unveiled a $118.3 billion compromise bill to crack down on unlawful migration across the U.S. border with Mexico and speed critical security aid to Ukraine, but the deal faces long odds in a Congress deeply divided over both issues. The release of the agreement, …

The Biden administration has 43 presidential nominees still awaiting confirmation in the Senate as Congress prepares to break for the holidays, a delay that is putting American national security and foreign policy interests in jeopardy around the world, the State Department said on Friday. Any nominee not confirmed before the …