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Share The Joint Minority Caucus of the Senate and the House of Representatives unanimously expressed opposition against President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to ban microblogging and social networking service, Twitter from operating in Nigeria. The Caucus position was contained in a statement jointly signed by Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe and House Minority leader, Hon Ndudi Elumelu accused Buhari’s administration of abandoning its duty of addressing the serious economic and security problems confronting our nation to rather focus on dissipating energy victimizing Nig...

ADVERTISEMENT The Joint Minority Caucus of the Senate and the House of Representatives has asked Nigerians to ignore the #TwitterBan and ‘keep tweeting’. They said this in a statement on Wednesday. The lawmakers condemned the federal government’s decision to indefinitely ban the operations of Twitter in Nigeria – an act they described as draconian and unacceptable. The Joint Minority Caucus also dismissed threats by the government to arrest and prosecute Nigerians using Twitter. It called on Nigerians to go ahead and use their Twitter as they would not be contravening any law in Niger...

As the newly elected Senate Chair of the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus (ILBC), State Sen. Robert Peters (D-13th) says he is looking forward to pushing forward the group’s program in the new year while dealing with a potentially painful budget crisis.  “I think my number one priority is just to be helpful to everyone in the caucus and try to be sort of a lead organizer within the caucus,” he said in an interview with the Herald. “Legislatively, it’s playing the best and most active role I can in terms of the Black Caucus agenda — as we head into the new yea...

As the newly elected Senate Chair of the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus (ILBC), State Sen. Robert Peters (D-13th) says he is looking forward to pushing forward the group’s program in the new year while dealing with a potentially painful budget crisis.  “I think my number one priority is just to be helpful to everyone in the caucus and try to be sort of a lead organizer within the caucus,” he said in an interview with the Herald. “Legislatively, it’s playing the best and most active role I can in terms of the Black Caucus agenda — as we head into the new yea...