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Oba Ewuare II N’Ogidigan of Benin on Friday recalled Mrs Victoria Orhue ostracised from Obe N’Evbueribo in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo by Odionwere (head) and Ohen of the village. The Oba also directed that all her lands and other property that were confiscated by the village leadership be returned to her immediately. Ewuare II gave the order at …

The former FBI director James Comey is to testify in public during the US inquiry into Russian interference, it has been announced, as a series of damaging revelations pile further pressure on the embattled president Donald Trump. Comey, who was sacked by Trump on 9 May in the midst of an investigation into the president’s links to Russia, is to …

Donald Trump received a glittering welcome from leaders in Saudi Arabia on the first day of his first international tour, as the two countries agreed a series of military deals worth nearly $110bn (£85bn). The US president’s decision to make the Saudi capital his first foreign call was seized on by senior Saudi officials as a symbol that Washington aimed …

Edo state Government has condemned, in strong terms, the dehumanizing treatment meted to one Kester Edun, who was handcuffed to the back of a moving police van recently, while also ordering a probe into the matter. The state government also added that those involved in the act would be brought to book. It would be recalled that material recently circulated …

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said the federal government would institutionalise the patronage of locally-made products among its Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). He disclosed this in Abuja yesterday at the national media launch of the “Buy Made-in-Nigeria” campaign. “The federal government is not just paying lip service to this buy Made-in-Nigeria. We have taken concrete steps …

Following the revelation by the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, of attempts by some politicians to infiltrate the military, the Nigerian Army said Thursday that it was yet to make any arrests. This is just as a report by Transparency International (TI) stated Thursday that the Nigerian defence and security sector is steeped in corruption, revealing that …

France will be uncompromising in its fight against militant Islamists in Mali and the Sahel region, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday during his first visit outside Europe’s borders. Speaking alongside Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita at the Gao military base in the north of the country where some 1,600 troops are based, Macron also said France was determined to …

The Presidency on Friday confirmed that the National Assembly has formally transmitted the 2017 Appropriation Bill recently passed into law to the Executive. The Senior Special Assistant to the Acting President, Mr. Laolu Akande, confirmed this on his Twitter handle. He said the document was formally received in the office of the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Friday. Akande added …

Iranians headed to the polls on Friday to vote in a bitterly contested presidential election that is expected to set their country’s direction for a generation. The victor will influence not only Iran’s immediate future, but the looming battle to choose a new supreme leader. The two main candidates are both clerics, but have little else in common. Incumbent Hassan …

By Alltmepost.com A magistrate’s court in Banjul today issued arrest warrants for two people suspected of murdering Gambian editor Deyda Hydara in 2004, according to media reports. The two suspects are not in the country, according to reports. “These warrants are a significant step toward voiding the culture of impunity that was permitted to flourish under former President Yahya Jammeh in Gambia for decades,” …