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Lauretta Onochie‏, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on Social Media has said that Nigeria’s former vice president, Atiku Abubakar who announced Sunday that he had rejoined the opposition party has lost touch with reality. Also on her Facebook page she said: ‘have never known anyone so angry that President Buhari is still alive and looking well. ‘Even the usual culprits …

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, has made a case for stronger ties between volunteers and state governments to drive development across the world. Obaseki made the assertion on Monday in commemoration of the International Volunteer Day for Social and Economic Development marked every December 5, by the United Nations, across the world. According to him, the fact that volunteers …

Washington (CNN) No wonder the President is lashing out. Donald Trump waited 10 long months for the vindication of his first legacy-boosting win on Capitol Hill — the Senate vote on tax reform. But his triumph, when it came, was tainted by his worst moment as President — the plea deal ensnaring fired national security adviser Michael Flynn that epitomizes …

The National Pension Commission has introduced guidelines that will enable some categories of retirees under the Contributory Pension Scheme to earn their last full salaries like their counterparts in the old Defined Benefits Pension Scheme. The National Pension Commission has set out modalities for the administration of retirement benefits of professors and public office holders to earn their last salaries …

The Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday issue a bench warrant against a former governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani, who was charged with an alleged fraud of N5.3bn. Justice Chuka Obiozor issued bench warrant against the ex-governor for failing to appear in court on Monday for his scheduled re-arraignment. The judge held that Nnamani’s counsel failed to give …

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on Sunday announced his return to the Peoples Democratic Party. He made the announcement in a live Facebook broadcast. Atiku was among notable politicians who left the PDP in 2014 to form an alliance that transformed into the All Progressives Congress. In the broadcast, the former vice-president said in the last two years of President Muhammadu …

By Jim Garamone – DoD News WASHINGTON — United States Defense Department has clear orders from President Donald J. Trump “to build a stronger military, take care of our men and women, and excel in our business operations,” Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan said yesterday. Shanahan was the closing speaker at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, …

By Jeremy Fuster and Ross A. Lincoln – The Wrap Corey Lewandowski, the fired manager of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, is set to release a tell-all book on Tuesday that goes inside the businessman’s chaotic but successful run to the White House, and how every person involved became, at one point or another, a target of Trump’s wrath. According to …

By Vanguard Newspaper   With over 1 million Lagosians living with one form of disability or the other, Association of Intellectual Disabilities in Nigeria, AIDDN, and the Children Developmental Centre, CDC, have trained parents of children living with disabilities, particularly, cerebral palsy with a view to assisting them in managing their wards living with such conditions. Speaking at the 2017 …

By Jimitota Onoyume – Vanguard Newspapers Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said he will continue to work with former President Goodluck Jonathan to firmly reposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for victory in 2019. The governor, in a statement by his media aide, Mr Simeon Nwakaudu on Sunday, said there was no friction between him and the former …