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The victory of Ireti Kingibe, Chinedu Obika and Abdulrahman Ajiya at the just concluded National Assembly polls in the Federal Capital Territory has dislodged an age-long tradition of electing indigenes as National Assembly representatives in the nation’s capital. Kingibe dislodged Philip Aduda of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to win…

A bipartisan group of senators will introduce legislation Wednesday aimed at preventing rail disasters after the devastating derailment in East Palestine last month. The Railway Safety Act of 2023 would create more stringent safety requirements for trains carrying hazardous materials and increase the frequency of rail car inspections. It would…

Finland’s Parliament on Wednesday overwhelmingly backed its bid to join NATO, the assembly’s speaker said. Approval of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s treaties and Finland’s accession passed with 184 members of the 200-seat parliament voting in favor, seven against and one abstaining. In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a…

Ireti, wife of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) vice-presidential candidate in the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Babagana Kingigbe, has won the senate seat for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) under the platform of the Labour Party. She polled 202, 175 votes to defeat the incumbent senator, Philip Aduda of…

Dr. Ify Aniebo is the wife of Gbadebo Patrick Rhodes-Vivour, the 2023 Lagos State gubernatorial aspirant of the Labour Party. Here are ten things you may not know about Dr Ify Aniebo; She was born in 1983. Dr. Ify is 40 years as of 2023 Dr. Aniebo is a molecular…

LAGOS – A coalition of Civil Society Organisations in the Southsouth region has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the Presidential and National Assembly elections in part of Delta State south Senatorial District over alleged cases of rigging, violence and myriad irregularities. In a statement jointly…

Incumbent Senator, Jarigbe Agom-Jarigbe defeated Governor Ben Ayade in the National Assembly elections held on Saturday in Cross River North. Ayade, who previously served in the Senate from 2011 to 2015, garnered 56,595 votes while Agom-Jarigbe, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), received 76,145 votes. The Independent National…

Sen. Dan Sullivan said the Biden administration has “slow-rolled” critical military support to Ukraine and slammed the White House for saying Ukrainians are not ready to receive F-16 fighter jets in their war against Russia. “That has been a pattern with this administration from the beginning, where they have slow-rolled critical…

Home » Business » OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova allegedly killed and tossed into the sea in 2018: report One of the FBI’s 10 most-wanted criminals has been allegedly dead for the past five years, a new report now claims. Ruja Ignatova, the OneCoin founder who led a group that defrauded billions of…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — James Abourezk, a South Dakota Democrat who grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, became the first Arab American U.S. senator and was known for his quick wit as he advocated for populist causes, died Friday. He was 92. Abourezk died at his home in Sioux…