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The Co-Convener of the Coalition of Northern Groups and leader of Arewa Consultative Youth Forum, Shettima Yerima, has accused human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, of living in the past, following the latter’s statement implying that the former should not be taken seriously. Falana had on Thursday at a news conference in Abuja described Yerima as a “Lagos man.” “The …

Former Chief of Army Staff and prominent member of the defunct National Democratic Coalition, Gen. Alani Akinrinade (retd.), in this interview with BAYO AKINLOYE, talks about restructuring Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari’s protracted illhealth and agitation for an independent state of Biafra Can the country succeed without restructuring? I do not see us going far at all under the regime (of …

Two years after its dissolution, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo thursday inaugurated new members of the National Council on Privatisation (NCP), the body responsible for making decisions on the sale and liberalisation of government’s interests in national assets and companies. According to a statement in Abuja by the Head of Public Communications in the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), the secretariat …

Councils have been ripping down cladding from tower blocks as testing after the Grenfell Tower blaze raised concerns over the safety of the buildings. Two buildings in Portsmouth and one in north London were having cladding removed as a precautionary measure, it emerged on Friday. The emergency measures were taken as thousands of tower block residents around the UK were …

Barack Obama sharply condemned the healthcare plan unveiled by Senate Republicans on Thursday as a “massive transfer of wealth” to the rich, at the expense of poor and middle-class Americans. In a Facebook post hours after the Republican bill was made public, the former president made some of his most pointed comments since leaving office in defense of what remains …

The Supreme Court has, Friday, sacked the Senator representing Taraba North in the Senate, Abubakar Danladi and asked him to return all salaries he had collected before his sacking. Danladi was ordered to refund all salaries and allowances he received within 90 days. Mr. Danladi was sacked by the Supreme Court on the same day a member of the House …

The Arab States have counselled Qatar to shut down Al Jazeera Televison for good if it wants to remain a part of the influential Middle East body. This is one of the 13-point agenda handed down to Qatar, which is currently facing diplomatic row with many countries, including its brother Arab states. The Saudi Arabia-led alliance regards Al Jazeera, the …

Senate President Bukola Saraki boasted Friday that the appeal filed by the Federal Government challenging his acquittal by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) will go the way of his original trial for false declaration of assets. Saraki,in his first reaction to the filing of the appeal by the federal government said he was “confident that the verdict at the …

By Crystal Maynard – U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command FORT DETRICK, Md. — Scientists at the U.S. Army Center for Environmental Health Research are hoping to determine how bones heal in microgravity, based on an experiment that launched to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX in February and returned to earth aboard SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft in March. …

By Alltimepost.com Ugandan authorities should cease investigation and intimidation of privately-owned daily newspaper Red Pepper editor, Ben Byarabaha and four other publications, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Wednesday. On June 15, Uganda’s Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) summoned Byarabaha in relation to an article in Red Pepper on the health of Uganda’s Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura, according …