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By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku (Special Correspondent) & Igbotako Nowinta (Nigeria Bureau Chief) Benin City, Nigeria – Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth, ERA/FoEN has said that the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, HYPREP, has failed to deliver on any of the recommendations set out in the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for its implementation. ERA executive director, Dr Godwin Uyi …

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Abuja, Nigeria – The Nigeria Police Force has dismissed Corporal Opeyemi Kadiri Force No. 509745 attached to Dolphin Divisional Headquarters, Lagos Police Command for gross misconduct, disobedience to lawful order, and assault on a member of the public captured in a viral video on August 3, 2022. A statement released to Alltimepost.com in Abuja by CSP …

Members of Oloke Family USA – one of Great Benin most prominent families in Edo State of Nigeria, begin their annual family reunion in Boston Massachusetts on Friday August 12, 2022, after more than one year of disruption by the COVID-19 lockdown. The reunion which will officially be declared open on Saturday August 13, 2022, is taking place at the …

•He has enormous capacity to lead the country —Okwesilieze Nwodo The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi, has reiterated his commitment to building a productive nation anchored on youths’ development, saying that their youthful energy, skills and potentials were critical ingredients needed to move the nation from consumption to production. Obi revealed this steadfast commitment in …

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, yesterday, insisted that for peace to reign, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Iyorchia Ayu must resign from office. This was Wike’s condition for peace when Adamawa State governor, Umaru Fintiri, visited him in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday. This is coming at a time other leaders of the PDP …

The suit shows that recent efforts by the PDP to reconcile Mr Wike with the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, ahead of the 2023 election have not yielded positive results. The Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja challenging the outcome of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary. It comes as …

The Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, yesterday, said that the Nigerian government has the tradition of not interfering in any judicial matter whether local or international and would maintain the stand in the matter involving the former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu in his trial on alleged organ harvest in the …

“Enough of health tourism. Anybody who holds public office must be treated in Nigeria for any health challenge. Public office holders must die here.” Human rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has said that all public office holders with health challenges should be treated in government-owned hospitals. Mr Falana made the call at the first anniversary of the …

Opposition lawmakers recently reaffirmed their resolve to impeach the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), if he fails to tame insecurity within the six-week grace they gave him to perform. It is difficult to fault the move given his colossal failure, his abject cluelessness and incapacity to govern. Beyond this, however, is the urgent need to decentralise policing and secure …

Coalition of civil society groups, under the umbrella of Joint Action Front (JAF), yesterday, called on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) to commence mobilisation for a general strike and mass protest over the protracted industrial action by academic and non-academic staff of public universities. A fortnight ago, Labour had staged solidarity protests across the country to …