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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to keep up his campaign of “swift and unrelenting action” in reorienting the nation’s economy, immigration and foreign policy in an unyielding address before Congress that left Democratic legislators to register their dissent with stone faces, placards calling out “lies,” and one legislator’s ejection. Trump’s prime-time speech was the latest marker in his takeover …

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy had written to him to say he appreciates U.S. support for his country in its war with Russia and is ready to sign a deal that could ensure future American support. In a speech to Congress following last week’s disastrous meeting at the White House, Trump said Zelenskyy had told …

WASHINGTON (AP) — A president’s speech to Congress — even without the formal gloss of a State of the Union address — is typically a time for a call to national unity and predictable claims about the country being strong. But that wasn’t President Donald Trump’s plan. His speech on Tuesday night was relentlessly partisan, boasting about his election victory and criticizing …

The Senate President and House Speaker operate 11-vehicle fleets, and their convoys alone cost Nigerian taxpayers an estimated ₦4 billion. At a time when millions of Nigerians can barely feed themselves, the presiding officers of the Nigerian National Assembly are basking in opulence, flaunting fleets of luxury cars that cost billions of naira. Nigeria is experiencing one of its worst …

The 49-day reign of Mojisola Meranda as Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly ended on Monday, when the lawmakers re-elected Mudashiru Obasa to lead them. The move is not unconnected to the resolutions of the mediating panel led by Chief Bisi Akande and Chief Olusegun Osoba, former governors of Osun and Ogun states, who intervened in the leadership …

The Petroleum Retailers Outlet Owners Association of Nigeria, PETROAN, yesterday commended NNPC Retail Ltd for reducing the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) otherwise known as petrol from N920 to N875 per litre. The association said the move is expected to alleviate the financial burden on Nigerians amidst rising inflation. In a statement to Vanguard, PETROAN’s National President, Dr. Billy …

CNN — President Donald Trump is ordering a pause on shipments of US military aid to Ukraine after his heated Oval Office argument with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week, a White House official told CNN Monday. The halt in aid, which came after Trump held a series of meetings with top national security officials at the White House, could have dire effect on Ukraine’s war-fighting …

By Williams Adesoji Prominent Nigerian Social critic and human rights Activist, Comrade Igbotako Nowinta has called on the Nigerian President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu to urgently call to order, his political foot soldiers campaigning for his re-lection in 2027 and prioritize the process of taking Nigerian people from the social misery created by his presidency. Comrade Nowinta, also a pro – …

By Idahosa Musa Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has restored to a former governor of Delta State, Mr. James Onanefe Ibori, the parcel of land situated in the Government Reservation Area of Benin City which Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) was revoked by the immediate past governor of the state, Godwin Obaseki. This was contained in a statement …

Amid rising political tension and the looming threat of impeachment, Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has declared that he is ready to pay the supreme price if that is what it takes to protect the state’s democratic interests. Speaking on Monday during the inauguration of the Rivers State Government House Staff Quarters in Port Harcourt, Fubara reaffirmed his commitment to …