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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and Democrats like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are threatening to buck the Senate's deal to end a government shutdown.   (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images; Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images; Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images) The Senate's compromise to end the  ongoing partial government shutdown  survived an important hurdle on Monday night, teeing up the legislation for a vote in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. The House Rules Committee, the final gatekeeper before most bills get a chamberwide vote, advanced the upper chamber's deal with the White House with little internal discord among Republicans on the panel. But the measure could face issues on the House floor during a second procedural hurdle called a "rule vote," which needs a simple majority of lawmakers to unlock debate and a vote on final passage. House votes normally fall along partisan lines, and Speaker  Mike Johnson,  R-La., will n...

Nigeria’s greatest enemies are not external forces, foreign conspirators, or abstract historical misfortunes, they sit comfortably within the nation’s leadership, and operate confidently in the corridors of power. This is not a claim rooted in emotion, but one grounded in patterns of governance that have persisted for decades. The tragedy of Nigeria is not a lack of knowledge about what to do, it is the deliberate refusal to do it. Those in power in Nigeria know exactly what makes nations work. They travel abroad, educate their children in functional systems, seek medical care in countries with working health infrastructures, and invest their private wealth in economies governed by law, transparency, and accountability. They understand the value of electricity, security, efficient institutions, independent courts, and merit-based governance, yet they return home to preside over dysfunction with chilling consistency. This contradiction is the clearest evidence that Nigeria’s problem is ...

Pope Benedict XVI remitted the excommunications for Lefebvre and his four bishops in 2009, but did not grant them full ministry.   (Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM) traditionalist group of  Catholic priests  that has been at odds with the Vatican for decades threatened a full schism with Rome this weekend, saying it plans to consecrate bishops without approval from the Holy See. The Priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) says it plans to move forward with the consecrations on July 1. The SSPX exclusively celebrates the Traditional Latin Mass and has taken issue with certain reforms in the Second Vatican Council. SSPX superior general Father Davide Pagliarani says he requested an audience with  Pope Leo XIV  in August to request new bishops for the society. Instead, the group received a letter from the Vatican that iy says "does not in any way respond to our requests." SSPX currently has two serving bishops: Bishop Bernard Fellay, a former superior general of the s...

As a W ay of returning the Igbo wealth back to Igbo land, the billionaire business man, Obinna Iyiegbu popularly known as Obi Cubana has set the standard that challenges every of the Cubana wealthy men to a Homecoming with the offer of a trailer load of cement. On the first day of February, 2026, the multi millionaire released a footage at the  Cubana Millennium Boulevard " popularly referred to as the Cubana Millennium City still under construction at Asaba, Delta State. In the footage, Obi Cubana made a solemn promise to support anybody setting up a building at the boulevard with one trailer load of cement to help him complete his building. The condition for receiving this offer is stated very clearly: the recipient must have raised his building to the DPC. Cubana hopes to use this avenue to set up the Cubana City ahead of his fifty-first birthday. See video for details.