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Canada's immigration policy has sparked controversy as the country's youth unemployment rate nears 15%, with the opposition party accusing the government of prioritizing temporary foreign workers over Canadian youth. According to Statistics Canada, the overall unemployment rate stands at 6.9%, with youth employment levels at
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Violence-marred Central Executive Committee (CEC) elections within the National Resistance Movement (NRM) have sparked a call to peace and unity from a key party leader, Michael Mawanda Maranga. As a prominent candidate in the Western Region Vice Chairperson seat contest, Maranga withdrew from the race due to attacks on his
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Nigel Farage, the leader of the Reform party, has been facing scrutiny over his immigration plan, which has been plagued by contradictions and U-turns. Just a day after boasting about sending traumatised asylum seekers back to war-torn lands, Farage's plans were unraveling. His party's five-year deadline
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Nigerian governors from the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) have expressed varying views on the party's zoning decision, with some welcoming the move and others lamenting past mistakes, such as fielding a northern candidate in the 2023 general election. Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed, who was
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has announced plans to deport hundreds of thousands of irregular migrants, including those living in the UK illegally, and to withdraw the country from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the 1951 UN Refugee Convention for a five-year period. Farage's party
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Femi Babalola, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has expressed confidence in Governor Seyi Makinde's ability to compete against heavyweights like former President Goodluck Jonathan and former Anambra governor, Peter Obi, for the party's presidential ticket in 2027. Babalola's comments come as
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Following the recent defection of Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State from the PDP to the APC on 6 June 2025, the APC Chairperson in Onna Local Government Area, Tom Nkanang, has called on political leaders in the area to close ranks and build a united front to promote
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As the Channel crisis intensifies, Labour's former Home Secretary David Blunkett has once again proposed suspending parts of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to expedite the deportation of rejected asylum seekers. This echoes a 2003 plan to send asylum seekers to Albania, which was met with
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The People's Democratic Party (PDP) is reflecting on its decision to field Atiku Abubakar as its presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, with Senate Minority Leader Abba Moro describing it as an error. Moro, a senator representing Benue South, stated this on Channels Television's Politics Today,
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In the 2024 presidential campaign, the Democratic Party suffered a significant loss, not due to a lack of diversity, but because of an inability to separate themselves from the policies of the current administration. The Young Turks, a progressive online media organization, reported that the Biden administration sent billions of
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has emphasized the need for an independent office of the Registrar of Political Parties to tackle the growing crisis of political party indiscipline in Nigeria. Speaking at a public presentation of the National Action Plan for Electoral Reforms, Jonathan proposed that an independent office be established
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Nigeria's main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is facing internal divisions and a crisis of identity after admitting that fielding Atiku Abubakar as its 2023 presidential candidate was a political miscalculation. With the party's prospects dwindling ahead of the 2027 elections, PDP chieftain Senator
