AMERICANS on Tuesday cast the final ballots in U.S. midterm elections that will determine whether Democrats lose control of Congress, and with it the ability to push forward on President Joe Biden’s agenda in the next two years. The party that controls the White House typically loses seats in midterm elections, and nonpartisan forecasts suggest Tuesday’s results will be no exception, as concerns about high inflation and crime outweigh the end of national abortion rights and the violence of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol in voters’ minds. Thirty-five Senate seats and all 435 House of Representatives seats…
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DAYS after Twitter Inc fired half its staff and new owner Elon Musk tweeted a recommendation to vote for Republican candidates, election experts are anxiously bracing for a surge in online misinformation as Americans head to the polls on Tuesday. Researchers who study election misinformation say threats, offensive language and false rumours of election fraud have been circulating widely ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, which will determine control of Congress for the next two years. Prevalent narratives include claims that delays in vote counting are associated with fraud and that disease outbreaks are orchestrated as “scare tactics” to manipulate…
UKRAINE doubled down on its tough stance on negotiations with Russia on Tuesday, saying talks could only resume once the Kremlin relinquishes all Ukrainian territory and that Kyiv would fight on even if it is “stabbed in the back” by its allies. The remarks come days after a U.S. media report that Washington had encouraged Kyiv to signal willingness for talks, and seemed aimed at rebuffing such pressure, at a time when U.S. mid-term elections could test Western support for Ukraine. In an overnight address before he was due to address world leaders at a climate summit, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy…
By Amos Aar The National Population Commission (NPC) has inaugurated online e-recruitment portal for ad-hoc staff who will carry out population and housing census in April, 2023. NPC Commissioner representing Benue State, Ms Patricia Kupchi, who announced this on Monday at a press briefing in Makurdi, stated that no fewer than fifteen thousand staff will be recruited. According to Kupchi, the categories of ad-hoc staff to be recruited include facilitators; training centre administrators; monitoring and evaluation officers; data quality managers; data quality assistants; supervisors; and enumerators. She added that the number of personnel to be recruited in each of the…
ALL is set in Benue for the visit of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, on Wednesday, 9th November, 2022. The Benue State chairman of the Labour Party, Engr. Ibrahim Idoko Otene, who announced this Monday at a press briefing in Makurdi said, the third visit of Mr Obi to Benue State is to unveil his blueprint for people of the state and Nigerians at large. Debunking the insinuations that the Labour Party does not have a viable party structure to guarantee victory for Obi come 2023 general elections, Engr Otene said “the movement behind Peter…
THE Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, has urged members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to remain calm over their claim of half salary payment by the Federal Government. In a statement he personally signed in Abuja on Monday, the Speaker noted that efforts to find lasting solutions to the concerns frequently raised by ASUU were ongoing. He said President Muhammadu Buhari had indicated interest to wade into the latest concerns raised by the union. “When the ASUU called off its industrial action three weeks ago, it meant that academic activities could resume in…
THE National Security Adviser (NSA), retired Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno says smart approaches adopted in tackling security challenges by the military and other security agencies are yielding positive outcomes. Monguno said this at the opening of the Defence Advisers and Attachés Annual Conference, organised by the Defence Intelligence Agency, on Monday in Abuja. The week-long conference has the theme, “Sustaining Nigeria’s Defence and Security: Role of the Defence Attaché System”. The NSA said the Armed Forces of Nigeria and other security agencies have been striving to significantly address the security threats across the country. He said identified some of the threats…
FOREMOST human rights lawyer and activist, Femi Falana (SAN), has advised the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to prosecute any lawyer involved in acts of money laundering. Falana gave the advice while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in reaction to a recent statement by Chairman of the EFCC, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa. Bawa had vowed to beam searchlight on perpetrators of financial crimes, including legal practitioners. NAN recalls that the EFCC boss spoken in Lagos at a one-day workshop on financial crimes reporting organised for journalists by the commission. Bawa had during the workshop stated that it…
POPE Francis said on Sunday European Union member states should share responsibility for taking in migrants and not just leave it to the countries where people arrive. He spoke as migration triggered fresh political tensions in Italy, where there has been a stand-off between the government and charity ships trying to disembark migrants. “The European Union has to take up a policy of collaboration and help. It can’t leave Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Spain with the responsibility of all the migrants that arrive on their shores,” he told reporters on the plane returning from a four-day trip to Bahrain. “Each…
THE price of carbon needs to average at least $75 a ton globally by the end of the decade for global climate goals to succeed, the head of the International Monetary Fund told Reuters. Speaking on the sidelines of the COP27 climate talks in the Egyptian coastal resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said the pace of change in the real economy was still “way too slow”. Recent analysis by the World Bank-affiliated group suggests the sum total of global national commitments on reducing climate-damaging emissions would see them fall just 11% by mid-century. “Unless we…