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Washington—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today released its 2023-2026 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) Strategic Plan, marking the agency’s first comprehensive strategy to incorporate a culture of DEIA principles as a foundational element of its daily work. This effort is consistent with the USCIS core value to champion people, and the recently released USCIS FY 2023-2026 Strategic Plan, in …

South Padre Island, Texas (AP) — SpaceX’s giant new rocket exploded minutes after blasting off on its first test flight Thursday and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico, the Associated Press reports. Elon Musk’s company was aiming to send the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built on a round-the-world trip from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Nigeria – Edo State Commissioner of Police, CP Mohammed Dankwara, has ordered a special surveillance around worship centers, parks, highways and other vulnerable places to ensure a hitch free 2023 Eidel-Fitri celebrations in the state. The Public Relations Officer, Edo State Police Command SP Chidi Nwabuzor disclosed this in a statement  in Benin City, today. …

The hope of having a woman elected a state governor in Nigeria was, again, dashed as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Aishatu Dahiru, was defeated in Adamawa State. Mrs Dahiru, popularly called Binani, was unable to secure 90 per cent of the votes cast in the supplementary election, which she needed to overtake Governor Ahmadu Fintiri …

• Vice chair gives Adamu seven-day ultimatum to summon NEC meeting, threatens to drag chairman to court• No crack in APC or plans to remove Adamu, says Kekemeke The political landscape is not bereft of high-powered drama. From one party to the other, the infractions have been intriguing and melodramatic. Two days ago, it was the Labour Party. Just as …

The Director General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Akin Osuntokun, has blamed the crisis rocking the party after the 2023 general elections on the judiciary. Osuntokun stated this in an interview on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday. He said that the judgement by Justice Hamza Muazu of a Federal Capital Territory High Court ordering the party’s Chairman, Julius Abure, …

Despite the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission’s promise to deliver 5,000 MW to the national grid, Nigerians have continued to complain about poor electricity supply. The power sector’s underperformance has been attributed to poor infrastructure and inadequate funding. At the height of the frequent power grid collapses experienced last year, the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, promised to deliver at least 5,000MW …

The Defence Headquarters has assured Nigerians that there will be a peaceful transition of power from the incumbent President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to a new administration on May 29. The Armed Forces high command also noted that the country is safe contrary to insinuations by the United States of America. The Director Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. Musa …

Taking a walk down memory lane, it is recorded that diplomatic relations between Nigeria and the Soviet Union officially started in November 1960. History has it that during the civil war, between 1967 and 1970, the USSR provided the Nigerian government with political and military assistance.  The Soviet Union was one of the major supporters of the Nigerian government during the …

The Kaduna State commissioner for internal security and home affairs, Samuel Aruwan, has said about 1,052 people were killed, 4,227 abducted and 648 were injured in 2022. Mr Aruwan said this Wednesday during the presentation of a report on the state of insecurity in the state for 2022. The report, titled “The Security Situation in Kaduna State from 1 January …