•Black smoke The first round of voting yesterday failed to produce a new Pope. Black smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, an indication that the process will continue today, reports AFP. Before the 133 cardinal electors moved into the Conclave, a remark by 91-year-old Dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni Battista [&hell...
•Newly elected German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks during a handover ceremony yesterday Germany’s conservative leader Friedrich Merz won a nail-biting second parliamentary vote yesterday to become chancellor after he lost the first round in a stunning early setback. Merz, 69, scored an absolute majority of 325 to 289 in the second secret ...
•New NUJ President Yahaya Comrade Alhassan Yahaya has been elected as the National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) at the union’s eighth triennial delegates’ conference held in Owerri, the Imo State capital. The delegates to the conference elected Yahaya in a landslide at the union’s election held on the 27th of November [&...
•Senate President Godswill Akpabio The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, today, presided over the swearing-in of three newly elected senators. Those sworn in during the plenary were Professor Anthony Okorie (All Progressives Congress, Ebonyi South), Mustapha Musa (All Progressives Congress, Yobe East), and Prince Pam Mwadkon (Action Democrat...
•Senate The Senate has asked the federal government to withhold statutory allocations to any local government councils not democratically elected. The upper chamber unanimously resolved that this move would deter the dictatorial tendencies of any state governor, reports Channels TV. This resolution comes against the backdrop of a motion moved ...
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