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WASHINGTON — With an increase in troops, the U.S. and NATO strategy in Afghanistan has a good chance of enabling Afghan security forces to do more to secure their country, the Resolute Support mission commander said during a news conference in Brussels during the week. Army Gen. John W. Nicholson told reporters that Afghan forces have proven their mettle in …

The Dubai, New York, China and the biggest cities of this world started from a movement and revolution centred on consolidated development and progress. History was today created, as the progressive government of Governor Godwin Obaseki in his determination to put Edo state in the world stage as a developed city and an economic hub. The ground breaking ceremony of …

Donald Trump has abruptly ended the diplomatic streak he displayed on his 12-day tour of Asia by launching a tirade against “violations, cheating or economic aggression” in the region, just hours after heaping lavish praise on China. Speaking at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) conference in Da Nang, Vietnam, on Friday, the US president’s words had the tone of a …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday recognized the great potentials of Edo State, as blessed with the required natural resources that would drive the engine of economic growth and future progress of Nigeria. He said the Federal Government would pursue more business reforms to accelerate progress recorded in its recent Ease of Doing Business ranking, to properly position Nigeria in its …

Investment experts and heads of federal government regulatory agencies at the Alaghodaro Investment Summit in Benin City, on Friday proffered solutions to the bureaucratic bottlenecks in government that are hindering the growth of businesses in Nigeria. At a plenary session on Institutional Reforms tilted Doing Things Differently, Professor Oladapo Afolabi, former Head of Service of the Federation, stressed that for …

President Muhammadu Buhari declared yesterday his commitment to the deal. He described the local government as a tier of government critical to his administration’s anti-corruption crusade. The President spoke in Abuja at a national workshop on anti-corruption, organised by the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) and the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) . He was represented …

The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has approved the conversion of secretarial assistants to data processors for efficient service delivery and to enable them move beyond the secretarial cadre level in the state civil service. Obaseki disclosed this when he received members of Nigeria Union of Public Service Reportorial, Secretarial, Data Processors and Allied Workers (NUPSRAW) led by …

ABUJA – Three years after the last Armed Forces Council meeting in 2014, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday presided over the first council meeting since he came on board as a civilian president. The meeting was symbolic because it took place at his main office at the Presidential, Villa, Abuja, which he had abandoned since he returned from his medical vacation …

On Monday, in an update of the raging feud between Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, and the Nigeria Union of Teachers, the union handed down a two-week ultimatum to the governor to reverse the planned sack of close to two-thirds of primary school teachers in the state. The ultimatum is sequel to several protests including legal challenges to get …

The New England Patriots’ billionaire boss is among several major US sports team owners who appear in the Paradise Papers Donald Trump likes to style Robert Kraft as his blue-collar conscience – a whisperer to the white working-class football fans whose support he craves. Trump has said that Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, urged him to “tax …