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Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday continued to flay comments by former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the reasons Dr. Goodluck Jonathan lost re-election as president saying that Obasanjo’s comments were framed to show his disdain for his successors and position himself as Nigeria’s best ruler ever. Chief Clark, who returned to the country on Thursday after a medical check-up …

By Alltimepost.com WASHINGTON — United States Defense Secretary Jim Mattis thanked Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz for his country’s initiative to spend two percent of its gross domestic product on defense, chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana W. White said in a statement. According to the statement, Mattis in a telephone conversation, expressed his appreciation for Poland meeting the September 2014 NATO …

By Jim Garamone – DoD News WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said yesterday that the U.S.-Australian alliance has been cemented by Australian and American service members who have shed their blood fighting common enemies for 100 years. The two men attended a dinner aboard the retired aircraft carrier USS Intrepid, now a museum …

About a thousand people protested against Donald Trump in New York City on Thursday, as the president was set to make his first trip home since his inauguration. Demonstrators gathered on the west side of Manhattan at 2pm, blocks from where Trump was due to give a speech at the decommissioned USS Intrepid aircraft carrier. Many banged pots and pans …

As House Republicans cheered the “beginning of the end” of the Affordable Care Act at a celebration in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday, Senate Republicans welcomed the bill with muted fanfare. After weeks of fits and starts, House Republicans had narrowly passed a proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare and voted to forward to the Senate a bill …

Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who will turn 96 next month, will step down from public life this fall, Buckingham Palace announced today. He will continue to carry out public engagements between now and August, according to a statement released by Buckingham Palace. “In taking this decision, The Duke has the full support of The Queen,” the release announced, …

The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, on Thursday said with stable crude oil production in recent times and attendant increase in the volume of oil export, the current state of the economy is good. He also said the development had given signals of imminent exit from the current economic challenges. Emefiele made this disclosure in …

They are beautiful, powerful; mostly brilliant and accomplished. They were the dream come true of the Nigerian feminist community which lauded the Jonathan administration’s affirmative action of appointing women into key government positions. They were to prove the widely held belief that what a man can do, a woman can do better. In his controversial 2014 book, My Watch, former …

Number of people left uninsured The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicted that if the ACA continued, the number of uninsured Americans – currently 28 million – would remain stable for the next decade. The revised Republican healthcare bill: The CBO has not had time to estimate the impact of the …

Donald Trump, in a long-anticipated overture to the religious right, signed an executive order on Thursday directing the IRS to weaken its enforcement of a rule barring churches and tax-exempt groups from endorsing political candidates. With the same stroke of his pen, he took steps to resolve a longtime dispute over an Obama-era rule requiring contraception coverage in employer healthcare …