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Trump has been courting the United Steelworkers for an endorsement, but union president Bruce McCall said that the union will endorse President Biden. McCall said on Fox News: We’re clearly leaning towards President Biden and we’ll be endorsing him. I’m sure it would be up to our executive board to …

The Scripture Union Nigeria, has called on the Federal Government and lawmakers to resist the pressure of legalising lesbianism and bi-sexualism The union’s National Chairman, Wilfred Onu, made this call at a press conference, held at the headquarters of the union at Samonda in Ibadan, Oyo State capital on Saturday, …

The opposition party’s response to the State of the Union address is a golden opportunity for up-and-coming and lesser-known politicians to introduce themselves to the nation and boost their political profile. Such was the case for Katie Britt, a first-term Republican senator from Alabama who, despite being a newcomer to …

President Joe Biden gave the State of the Union address on Thursday night. It was a rowdy affair as an amped-up Biden contended with a crowd full of Republican hecklers, most notably Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene, who repeatedly ignored Speaker Mike Johnson’s request to show decorum during the speech. In …

President Biden delivered an energetic and impassioned speech that was as much a campaign kickoff as it was a State of the Union, leveraging what is expected to be one of his largest audiences of the year to make a forceful case that he was fit enough for another four …

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) said that Republicans are trying to stop President Biden from delivering the State Of The Union address. Sen. Ernst said on Fox News, “It is unfathomable that we don’t have a national security strategy from the President. Nor do we have his budget for the upcoming …

Organised Labour stormed the Lagos office of the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, yesterday, Feb. 6, to protest over the ban and shut down of production lines of companies manufacturing alcoholic drinks in sachets and small bottles below 200ml.    Led by leaders of the Trade …

  The labour union has proposed a minimum wage of $300 (N436,500) for Nigerian workers ahead of negotiations on the new national minimum wage. Chairman, Trade Union Side, Joint Meeting of the National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC), Comrade Benjamin Anthony, made this proposal at the 2023 meetings of the …

Adebayo Padmore, a driver with LagRide, has died.   He died on the morning of Jan. 8, while getting ready to begin picking up passengers.    Saheed Ayeni, one of three drivers who took Padmore to Louis Med hospital in Lekki, from Oniru market where he collapsed, said: “He collapsed …

A man has detailed some of the sacrifices he has made in his marriage.  He shared his experience amid the debate about a woman waking by 4am to cook her husband’s lunch so he won’t keep eating his female colleague’s food.  The woman’s story led to conversations about sacrifices in …