Replace Every Bad Leadership, Northern Group Admonish Students
Nigerian students at higher education institutions have been called to mobilize in the run-up to the 2023 general election to replace any form of bad leadership. Alhaji Shehu Dalhatu, who chaired the Maitama Sule Leadership Lecture Series organized by the Students Wing of the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) at the College of Education in […]
China Fires Back After Biden Slams Xi’s COP26 No-Show
China on Wednesday hit back at US President Joe Biden following his criticism of President Xi Jinping’s decision to skip the make-or-break COP26 United Nations summit in Glasgow. Xi, who leads the planet’s largest emitter of the greenhouse gases responsible for climate change, has not travelled outside of China since the beginning of the Covid-19 […]
Biden Rejects Blame For Shock Virginia Election Defeat
Joe Biden has rejected suggestions that his Democratic party’s shock loss in the Virginia governor’s race was a verdict on his presidency. Mr Biden argued that the miring of his legislative agenda in a Capitol Hill logjam did not sway the outcome. He cited “Trump voters”, schools, jobs and petrol prices as other reasons for […]
Biden Appears Unaware Of Possible Separated Family Payments, Says It Won’t Happen
President Joe Biden on Wednesday denied reports that his administration was planning to pay migrant family members separated by the Trump administration up to $450,000 per person. “That’s not going to happen,” Biden said in response to a question about the plans at a press conference Wednesday. Biden called the reported plans “garbage” and “not […]
Phil Murphy Prevails In Close Race In New Jersey
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has become the first Democratic governor in more than four decades to win reelection in the Garden State, CNN projects Wednesday, narrowly surviving a closer-than-expected race that dragged well past Election Day. Murphy’s victory over Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli, albeit slim, defied the state’s trend of voting in the party […]
EFCC Arrest Three Suspects For Defrauding Job Seekers In Sokoto
Three suspects — Aminu Sifawa, Ibrahim Shehu, and John Danjuma — have been detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s Sokoto Zonal Command for allegedly defrauding several job seekers in the state. The men specialized in defrauding applicants with non-existent job opportunities in lucrative federal government agencies such as the Nigeria Immigration Service, Nigeria […]
FG Begins 21,000 Pensioners Biometric Verification
The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has started a new round of biometric verification procedures for roughly 21,000 Federal Government pensioners who were not confirmed during a previous exercise in the southwest part of the country in 2019 but were genuine retirees. The Executive Secretary of PTAD, Dr. Chioma Ejikeme, told reporters yesterday in Ibadan […]
Biden Hails Two Big Agreements At COP26 And Scolds Russia And China
President Biden capped two days of climate talks with fellow world leaders by hailing new international commitments to curb warming, knocking China and Russia for not participating, and expressing confidence that his domestic climate agenda will clear the House and Senate. The president said he felt certain that Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, […]
Trump Claims Credit As Republicans Capture Virginia Governorship, Dealing Blow To Biden
Republicans won the Virginia governor’s election and were within striking distance in New Jersey on Wednesday, a warning that President Joe Biden’s Democrats are in trouble heading into next year’s congressional elections. Glenn Youngkin, a former private equity executive who surged in the polls in the Virginia campaign’s final weeks, beat Democratic former Governor Terry […]
Glenn Youngkin, A Republican Financier, Defeats Terry McAuliffe In The Virginia Governor’s Race
Republicans claimed the governorship of Virginia for the first time in more than a decade on Wednesday, electing the businessman Glenn Youngkin and presenting their party with a formula for how to exploit President Biden’s vulnerabilities and evade the shadow of Donald J. Trump in Democratic-leaning states. Mr. Youngkin, 54, a wealthy former private equity […]
