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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, departs Abuja for Accra, Ghana this morning to represent President Muhammadu Buhari at an Extraordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government to discuss the political situation in the Republic of Mali. Today’s meeting which is expected to be attended by leaders across the region, follows previous meetings and efforts by …

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku, Alltimepost.com Abuja Correspondent The Palace of the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Oba Ewuare II has reacted to the insult that a cross-dresser, Okuneye Idris Olarenwaju, aka Bobrisky heaped on the revered King of Benin, and described it as the height of madness and a joke taken too far.  Bobrisky is a Nigerian …

Nigeria’s ant-corruption Agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has taken over from the Nigerian Navy, a vessel marked MT TIS IV laden with suspected stolen crude oil arrested by the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Soroh, at the Akassa River in Brass Local Government Area last December. Also handed over to the EFCC were twenty-two crew members of the …

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku If you were looking for anyone to carry out any kind of informal economic activity – artisans, welders, bricklayers, masons, technicians, farm hands, the tricycle riders – name it – chances are that you may never get a regular Benin person undertaking any of those tasks.  The jobs appear too menial for them. In contradistinction however, …

•Says current ‘touch and go response’ will not help•Presents Kaduna as the next Lagos The uncertainties surrounding the forthcoming general elections seem to be growing wider by the day, especially with President Buhari’s refusal to sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill into law. His rejection of the Electoral Bill because of the section bothering on direct primaries which he does …

“Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge; which is returning evil for  evil; while ingratitude returns evil for good.” William George Jordan. Chief Edwin Clarke and all the elders of the Niger Delta still reeling from the blow delivered by former President Olusegun Obasanjo with regard to ownership of crude oil have my sympathies. If it will help, let me …

President Muhammadu Buhari has said his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), may lose the 2023 presidential election to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) or another opposition party if the ruling party does not put its acts together.. Mr Buhari stated this in an interview with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) on Thursday. He spoke against the backdrop of disagreement on …

President Muhammadu Buhari has again quoted wrong figures of Nigeria’s average crude oil revenue between 1999 and 2014 while speaking of his administration’s effort to build the economy with lean resources. The president, in the interview aired by Channels TV on Wednesday, said Nigeria’s crude oil production from 1999 to 2014 averaged 2.1 million barrels per day at an average …

The Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State, has said the region is happy with the declaration of bandits as terrorists He also added that the region commends the deployment of the recently acquired Super Tucano jets to fight the bandits. Governor Lalong was speaking to State House Correspondents on Friday, after he met behind …

Since Friday last week when President Muhammadu Buhari signed the 2022 Appropriation Bill into law at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, crisis may have started brewing between the Presidency and the National Assembly over what was described as ‘worrisome changes’ and inclusion of new provisions totalling N36.59 billion in the budget by the lawmakers. President Buhari, who said the action of …