The Trump administration is ordering four Chinese state-owned news outlets to cut their Chinese staff in the U.S. by about 40%, amid a broader response to Beijing’s restrictions on American journalists and the expulsion of three Wall Street Journal reporters last month. Starting March 13, the four outlets will be allowed to employ a combined
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Following the rising wave of security challenges facing the country, a member of the National Assembly, Senator Ike Ekweremadu (Enugu West), has resolved to sponsor a bill for the creation of state police as one of the ways of addressing the security issues across the country. Ekweremadu, who is a former Deputy Senate President
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Sen. Douye Diri of the Peoples Democracy Party (PDP) on Friday took the oath of office as Governor of Bayelsa. Chief Judge of the State, Justice Kate Abiri, administered the oath of office for the Bayelsa governor, and his Deputy, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo. The swearing-in ceremony which took place at the Government House, Yenagoa, was a huge
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The Apex Court on Thursday has nullified the election of APC Bayelsa State governor-elect, David Lyon and his running mate Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo. Chief David Lyon was to be sworn-in on Friday. In preparation for the inauguration, the PDP flag was on Thursday morning removed from the Bayelsa Government House. The five-man panel
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s designated successor has unexpectedly thrown in the towel, plunging her conservative party into deeper crisis as it struggles to agree on its future political direction after losing votes to the far right. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told leading members of the Christian Democratic Union that she will not be seeking the chancellorship in next
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Senator Ignatius Longjan, representing Plateau South in the National Assembly, and a former deputy governor of Plateau State is dead. According to his former Press Secretary Mr Wulimen Goyit, the Senator died in the early hours of Monday at the Turkish Hospital in Abuja after a brief illness. Plateau State Governor, Simon
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Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege (Delta Central), is to chair the 57-member Constitution Review Committee named by Senate President Ahmad Lawan. Principal Officers of the Senate that constitute members of the Steering committee as well as members of the panel are the Senate Leader, Senator Yahaya Abdullahi; Deputy
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The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has deregistered 74 out of Nigeria’s 92 political parties for their lackluster performance in the 2019 general elections. Some of the deregistered parties include All Blending Party, Advanced Allied Party, We the People Nigeria, Sustainable National Party and Youth Party. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu who made the declaration at
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Anietie Udobit Senator Mao Ohuabunwa has urged the Federal Government to set up a national monument in honour of Dr Arthur Nwakwo for his heroic role in the defense of our democracy. He described the death of the former National Vice Chairman of National Democratic Coalition, NADECO, Dr. Arthur Nwankwo, as a huge loss to Nigeria
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President Donald Trump was acquitted on Wednesday in his U.S. Senate impeachment trial, saved by fellow Republicans who rallied to protect him nine months before he asks voters in a deeply divided America to give him a second White House term. The businessman-turned-politician, 73, survived only the third presidential impeachment trial in
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