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BEIRUT — As a political deadlock continues to hinder the election of a president in Lebanon six months into a presidential vacuum, members of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged the Biden administration to support presidential candidates who will be accountable to the Lebanese people. In a letter addressed…

From Kenneth Udeh,  Abuja Former Minister of Aviation and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has endorsed the current Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu as the president of the 10th Senate. Fani-Kayode, a former Director of New Media Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Organization…

From Okwe Obi, Abuja Chairman, Governing Council and Pro-Chancellor of the Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State, Senator Chris Adighije has backed former Abia State governor and Senate Chief Whip,  Orji Uzor Kalu, for the position of the Senate President. He gave his support when he paid a condolence visit to…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Taraba State has expelled a governorship aspirant, David Sabo Kente, and the Senator-elect for Taraba South District, David Jimkuta, for alleged anti-party activities. Naija News reports that the chairman of the party in the state, Elsudi Ibrahim, made this known while addressing a press…

Civil rights advocacy groups made up of ten organisations under the aegis of the Human Rights Writers Association Of Nigeria, HURIWA on Monday, backed the reinstatement of Senator Ifeanyi Araraume as the non-executive Chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL. They spoke on the platform of HURIWA at…

Since last year, Governor Dave Umahi and Chief Linus Oko- rie, a for,er two-term member of the House of Representa- tives and who was the Labour Party (LP) candidate for Ebonyi South Senatorial District in the just con- cluded general election, had been at loggerheads. Okorie has been Umahi’s major…

From Oluseye Ojo, Ibadan At least 168 people, including police personnel, their wives and children, escaped death at the Police Barracks, Sango, Ibadan, in Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo State, on Saturday, when a block of building containing 27 self-contained apartments partially collapsed. The fact emerged during an…

The President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, last week, expressed low confidence in the ability of the Senators that would make up the incoming 10th Senate due to be inaugurated in June. Two other stories from the National Assembly were analysed within the week under review. 1. Lawan’s sanctimonious…

Former Military head of State, General Yakubu Gowon has suspended the Prayer Rally scheduled to usher in the administration of Abia State governor-elect, Alex Otti. Gowon, the founder of Nigeria Prays, had come under fire over his plan to visit Abia state on the ground of a Prayer Rally, scheduled…

KEY POINTS:Greens Indigenous Australians spokesperson Dorinda Cox said may reconsider her support for the Voice.She later clarified her threat, saying she would campaign for a "yes" vote at the Voice to Parliament referendum.Senator Cox is demanding Labor scrap a controversial fertiliser plant in WA.Greens Indigenous Australians spokesperson Dorinda Cox has…