Despite a shove from President Donald Trump, House Republicans abruptly postponed a vote late Wednesday on their budget framework, unable to convince conservative GOP holdouts who had raised grave misgivings over allowing trillions of dollars in tax breaks without deeper spending cuts. Speaker Mike Johnson almost dared the Republican hardliners to defy Trump and risk…
A poet has shared how his father’s behaviour destroyed their home. He narrated how his mother started a school and his father, having been fired from multiple places, quit his last job and decided to join his mother in managing the school. Rather than manage the school, he mismanaged it, would take their profits to…
A federal appeals court cleared the way Wednesday for President Donald Trump’s administration to fire thousands of probationary workers, halting a judge’s order requiring them to be reinstated in a legal win for Trump’s effort to downsize the federal workforce. The decision comes a day after the Supreme Court also sided with the Trump administration…
In a dramatic turn of events within the Labour Party (LP), Lamidi Apapa has declared himself the party’s leader following a Supreme Court judgment that sacked Julius Abure as the National Chairman. In a recent ruling, a five-member panel of the Supreme Court overturned the decision of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which…
Pope Francis met privately with King Charles III and Queen Camilla on Wednesday at the Vatican during the royal couple’s four-day state visit to Italy and on the occasion of their 20th wedding anniversary, the Vatican announced. It was the first known meeting since the pope’s return to the Vatican after five weeks in the hospital for life-threatening double pneumonia….
