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Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has charged development actors within the South-South Cooperation (SSC) framework to strengthen the existing team spirit among member states in the pursuit of market-led, knowledge-based economies that will engender sustainable development. The governor said this in a statement to mark the United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation, observed every September 12. The SSC is …

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis hailed Portugal as a longstanding, reliable U.S. and NATO ally during his Pentagon meeting on Tuesday with Portuguese Defense Minister José Alberto Azeredo Lopes, chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana W. White said in a statement. Mattis also thanked the Portuguese minister for his country’s continued support in NATO’s security efforts along its southern flank, and …

The Abia state Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has declared a three-day curfew in Aba, a commercial city in the state following the Nigerian army’s inversion of the state. A statement issued on Tuesday by the state government, Governor Ikpeazu expressed concerns over the launch of a military exercise tagged, Operation Python Dance II in the state and other south-eastern states …

The sun had not yet risen at 5.30am in Manhattan, but an estimated 300 of Hillary Clinton’s most devoted supporters had already lined up outside a bookstore in Union Square to meet her and buy a copy of her new election memoir, What Happened. There was Allie Rohletten, a 20-year-old college student, who had been inspired by Clinton’s “history of …

They sat through hours of pummelling by Hurricane Irma, with winds pounding them at up to 115mph and rain driving in a solid white sheet as bright as a snow blizzard. Then on Monday, Floridians woke up to survey the damage, begin the cleanup and get back to carrying on regardless. By noon, the jet skiers were back on the …

The Commissioner of Police in Anambra, Mr Garba Umar, has reiterated the preparedness of security agencies to help achieve credible, free, fair, and violence-free governorship election in Anambra on Nov.18. Umar, who doubles as the Chairman of the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Security in the state, gave the assurance during the meeting of the Committee at the Independent National Electoral …

The Presidential Panel set up to investigate alleged human rights violations by the Nigerian Army, yesterday, held its inaugural sitting in Abuja, with Benue indigenes narrating how soldiers helped rampaging herdsmen to attack their communities. This came as the chairman of the probe panel, Justice Biobele Georgewill, said the proceeding will provide a unique opportunity to those that have genuine …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has explained why the war against the Boko Haram insurgency has remained intractable, noting that the country needed to treat the root of the problem and not the symptoms. Speaking in an interview with the BBC in Lagos, Obasanjo noted that former President Goodluck Jonathan did not take the insurgency seriously in the belief that the …

…Report on sequence of project implementation ready All is now set for the smooth take-off of the planned Benin Industrial Park with the receipt of the preliminary report by Governor Godwin Obaseki from the Mahindra Group in India, on Monday. A visibly elated Obaseki, who was accompanied by the Commissioner for Wealth Creation, Cooperatives and Employment, Hon. Emmanuel Usoh, and …

As schools prepare to resume for the 2017/2018 academic session on Monday, many parents have expressed concern at the high cost of school items. Some parents, who spoke in Lagos on Saturday, said that school items had become costlier than school fees. Mr Wale Olufela, a civil servant, stated that school fees remained the same from the previous session but …