Senator Bernie Sanders, who once campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and lost narrowly to Hillary Clinton, has now set his sights on the White House once again.
•Lawmakers seek six months jail, fines for defaulting employers The House of Representatives has approved N30,000 as minimum wage for workers in the public and private sectors. The lawmakers also increased the initial threshold for public and private sectors workers in states and local governments from N27,000 proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari in the National […]
The House of Representatives has approved June 12 as the new Democracy Day in Nigeria. The members approved this on Thursday while considering a report on “A Bill for an Act to Amend the Public Holidays Act, Cap. P40, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 to bring the Act in tandem with the current…
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Mike Pompeo, named Tuesday to be US secretary of state, comes from a one-year stint leading the Central Intelligence Agency where he earned Donald Trump’s trust delivering the president’s daily national security briefings and by toeing Trump’s line politically.
There was a rowdy session at the House of Representatives on Thursday over a letter written to the lawmakers by President Muhammadu Buhari. The President had written to the lawmakers fixing November 7, for the presentation of the 2018 budget proposal. However, as the Speaker of the House, Mr Yakubu Dogara, read the letter to … Continue reading Reps In Rowdy Session Over Buhari’s Letter On Budget Presentation
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The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, made this known on Wednesday, when the House of Representatives Committee on Army, led by its Chairman, Rep. Rimande Shawulu, paid him oversight visit.
The House of Representatives has urged the Inspector General of Police to suspend the planned introduction of stun guns to replace the use of firearms by police personal.
Dr Kayode Fayemi made this clear while appearing before the House of Representatives as part of the ongoing Sectoral Debate organised by the House.
According to the federal lawmaker, the time has come to bring the dastardly offence under the Terrorism Act to serve as a strong deterrent to others contemplating such crimes.
He identified as one of the major challenges in onerous task of tackling issues of insecurity in Nigeria as the inability of security agents to gather intelligent information and share it among themselves.
