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By Osehobo Ofure Visitation panels set up to investigate the allegations of fraud in 11 federal universities and federal polytechnics including the University of Benin and Auchi Polytechnic will ask for the multiple bank accounts they are currently operating in defiance of the Treasury Single Account (TSA). The panel’s request for the bank accounts in the case of the University …

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani tried to downplay the significance of sometimes violent protests across his country that have left 12 people dead in the biggest challenge to the authority of the Tehran regime since mass demonstrations in 2009. “Our great nation has witnessed a number of similar incidents in the past and has comfortably dealt with them. This is nothing,” …

I join my fellow citizens this morning to welcome and celebrate the New Year 2018. This year promises to be pivotal in our quest for CHANGE. Unfortunately, I am saddened to acknowledge that for many this Christmas and New Year holidays have been anything but merry and happy. Instead of showing love, companionship and charity, some of our compatriots chose …

By Alltimepost.com Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said that the days are gone in Nigeria when idle funds existed which actors within the polity distributed to persons and groups, without commensurate return of value. Obaseki made this submission on  Monday during a New Year Service at the St. Andrew’s Cathedral in Eguare-Ekpoma, Edo State, which he attended in …

By Victor Ofure Osehobo Professor Emmanuel Aluyor, Vice Chancellor of the newly established Edo University, Iyamho has been summoned to the Governor’s office in Benin City to explain his role in the theft of a brand new Toyota Hilux van, acquired for the institution. Sources close to the institution said The VC has been having sleepless nights for weeks now …

The White House has urged Iran to respect the rights of Iranians who have taken to the streets to protest over the past two days, warning that “the world is watching.” Demonstrations in the northeastern city of Mashhad on Thursday prompted protests that spread to cities across the nation on Friday. Anti-government protests have been documented in Iran’s capital, Tehran, as …

The Deputy President of the Senate, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, has called for parliamentary system of government in the country, saying that the current presidential system is too expensive and cumbersome. Ekweremadu spoke, during a parliamentary session of the Enugu West People’s Assembly in Udi Local Government, Enugu State, where opportunities were given to the people in the grassroots to interact …

The election of football icon, George Opong Weah as President of Liberia in a run-off poll conducted December 26 has a “very serious implication” for Africans all over the world, former Nigeria international, Chief Segun Odegbami has said. Reacting to the result of the poll, Thursday, Odegbami enthused, “Weah’s election is of very serious implication for the world and Nigeria, …

The family of detained former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, yesterday, took up issues with the Buhari administration, formally asking it to free their son from captivity and give him the privileges being enjoyed by similar ex-security chiefs in the country. At the a press conference in Abuja on Friday, the spokesman for the family, Comrade Kabir T. Auwal, …

An overwhelming crowd of supporters and sound-system malfunctioning forced Liberia’s President-elect, George Weah, to postpone his victory speech on Friday night. Weah was billed to formally accept his election at his Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) headquarters in Monrovia at 6.30 p.m., an hour after his declaration as President-elect. Immediately after the National Elections Commission announced the final results of …