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SAN FERNANDO CITY, Philippines — The U.S. and Philippine navies kicked off maritime training activity Sama Sama at Naval Station Ernesto Ogbinar on Monday. The week-long engagement focuses on the full spectrum of naval capabilities and is designed to strengthen the close partnership between both navies while cooperatively ensuring maritime security, stability and prosperity. Expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Millinocket, …

President Trump announced from the White House East Room that he is nominating Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Kennedy on the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh was confirmed to his position on the Court of Appeals for DC on May 26, 2006, about 12 years ago. The 53-year-old worked in the Bush administration and also for independent counsel Kenneth Starr in the …

ABUJA-The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), African Democratic Congress (ADC), the Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC) and 36 other political parties Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in a grand alliance to form a government of national unity in 2019. The sole agenda according to the MOU, is to produce a joint Presidential candidate capable of winning the election and …

National Chairman of Reformed All Progressives Congress, R-APC, a splinter within the ruling APC, Buba Galadima, has lashed out at leadership of the ruling party, describing them as mere servants who are attempting to lock out their landlord. Buba Galadima He spoke, yesterday night in a television programme, Politics Today on Channels Television. He said: “I don’t need to talk …

President Muhammadu Buhari has been asked to name the politicians he claimed were behind the serial killings across the country, particularly in the Northern parts of the country. A leader of Afenifere, a Pan Yoruba socio-cultural group, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, and a former Minister of Information and South-south leader, Chief Edwin Clark, spoke to us yesterday and disagreed with the …

Bille Kingdom in Degema Local Government Area, Rivers State, has given a number of conditions to the Federal Government on the move to end oil bunkering in the area, demanding that the government should give the kingdom licence to operate a modular refinery. Bille Kingdom made the demand, weekend, when the former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, visited the …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will meet with 45 other political parties and the Reformed All Progressives Congress (rAPC), the break-away faction of the ruling APC, today in Abuja to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which will spell out their strategic relationship ahead of the 2019 general elections. A reliable source close to the emerging coalition told THISDAY last …

The Presidency on Sunday said it was in possession of evidence to prove that some politicians were behind the killings allegedly being carried out by herdsmen in parts of the country. It said the unnamed politicians were using criminals to perpetuate the killings. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said this in a …

A new template recently given to the Pension Fund Administrators by the National Pension Commission for the calculation of retirement benefits to Contributory Pension Scheme retirees has led to the reduction in lump sum being paid out and this is generating concerns among some pensioners. Many retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme are daily expressing their displeasure over their inability …

The Federal Government spoke defiantly last night, saying it had no intention whatsoever to withdraw the Executive Order, which President Muhammadu Buhari signed into force last week to preserve assets of corrupt persons and institutions under prosecution. The government said it acted in the best interest of Nigeria in putting the order into effect and would not pull it back …