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Why do many people in the West feel as if civilization itself is collapsing, that they are being plunged into dystopia?

Zimbabwe’s Parliament is to set up a committee to investigate allegations of bribery against four members of the Mines and Mining Development Parliamentary Portfolio Committee including its chairman Temba Mliswa who is an independent legislator. This follows media reports that Mliswa and three members of the committee Leonard Chikomba, Anele Ndebele and Prince Dubeko Sibanda...

The House of Representatives sat 70 times in 2021, contrary to the constitutional stipulation of a minimum of 181 days

President Muhammadu Buhari had declined assent to the Electoral Bill earlier passed by the National Assembly because of the mandatory use of primary election by parties.

President Muhammadu Buhari had declined assent to the Electoral Bill earlier passed by the National Assembly because of the........

This newspaper had reported how the senators breached Section 63 of the Constitution by sitting for 66 days against the 181 days stipulated by the law.

The Senate, Nigeria’s highest law-making body, did not only break its own rules, it repeatedly undermined the nation’s constitution...

In the whole of 2021, Nigerian senators held plenary sessions for just 66 days. This could mean they held plenary for a little over two months. Or going by the legislative calendar of three days per week, one could say the lawmakers sat for about five months and six days. The senators are currently on…

Judicial Watch announced today that the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics has refused to take action against Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who admitted to willfully violating Senate rules by releasing confidential records regarding then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s time as a White House counsel. The documents were marked “Committee confidential,” meaning they were not for public […]

The Senate on Tuesday amended the Senate Standing Rules 2015 and approved a simple majority for the election of presiding officers.