This Week In Review: Another White House Official Resigns
Now former White House Staff Secretary, Rob Porter, resigned from his position this week as a result of both his ex-wives coming forward to share their stories of abuse. This whirlwind story got its start when Porter’s first wife, Colbie Holderness, spoke to the Daily Mail early in the week. Detailing her 5-years of abuse […]
Nigeria: Revealed! Fuel vandals resume operations
Fuel vandals have resumed operations in Arepo, Ogun State, South-western part of Nigeria, an investigation by Caracal Reports has revealed. This latest twist to the fuel bunkering menace puts the publicized Federal Government efforts to curb the illegal activities in jeopardy, indicating that the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration may find it difficult to win […]
US Govt Is Open As 2yrs Bipartisan Spending Bill Is Signed By President Trump
President Trump signed a massive spending bill early Friday morning, ending a five and half hours government shutdown. After a brief government shutdown starting at midnight, the bill received the necessary votes by both the House and Senate around 5:30 am. Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) repeatedly took to the Senate floor Thursday night to protest […]
This Week In Review: Flu Epidemic Kills 16 More Children
The Nunes Memo that Left Congress in a Standoff According to sources close to the White House, the president told his confidants that he is sure that the explosive Nunez memo would undermine the legitimacy of Robert Mueller’s investigations. On Friday, he declassified the memo. The Nunes memo took this week’s political news by storm […]
Controversial GOP-Nunes Memo is released Despite FBI ‘Grave Concerns’
The White House ordered the release of an FBI memo Friday morning, ending the debate over whether releasing such classified information was overstepping the bounds of the Republican party. President Trump’s security advisors advised against releasing the memo because it contains sensitive national security information. Even the FBI, a nonpartisan agency that would typically rarely […]
Nigeria: Over 70% Public Universities Are Poorly Funded
Over 70 percent of public tertiary institutions in Nigeria are presently poorly funded. Their students are confronted with infrastructural, social and moral decay, investigations revealed. Though both students and lecturers in the schools across the country have embarked on a series of peaceful and violent protests for decades over the state of infrastructure, it appears […]
This Week In Review: Reports Of Trump Mulling Over Firing Mueller
According to what is described as in “explosive” report by the New York Times, President Donald Trump ordered the firing of Special Counsel Robert Mueller in June of 2017. Apparently only going back on his decision when White House Counsel, Don McGahn, threatened to resign. Though president Trump dismisses the news as ‘fake news’ on […]
Shut Down Ends With Promise Of DACA Fix
As Republicans celebrated the end of the historical, yet brief, government shutdown, approximately 800,000 DACA recipients and countless more DREAMers (undocumented immigrants who have been living in the United States since they were children) faced their disappointment. Because, though the future of the government is insured for at least the next few weeks, their future […]
The DREAMers Take On D.C: A First-Hand Account
On a chilly Wednesday morning in Washington D.C, the Rotunda of the Russell Senate Office was filled with reporters, adjusting their appearance, looking over notes and prepping for live television. This is not unusual. The Rotunda is often used as a pseudo-pressroom for members of Congress to speak directly to news networks and, thusly, to […]
Week in Review: American Government Is Shut-Down
The Federal government shut down on Friday after the last minute stop-gap passed in the House late Thursday. The vote failed 50-49 in the Senate sixty votes needed to pass. President Trump met with Democratic Majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in attempts to negotiate a deal, however, by voting time, Democrats cast firmly their refusal […]