The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Saturday called on leaders across the globe to increase donations to victims of conflicts and aid workers caring for them. Obaseki made the call as the world marked World Humanitarian Day, a day set aside by the United Nations to identify with civilian victims of wars and all forms of conflicts. …
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FG Pension Liabilities To Rise By N20bn With Exemption Of Paramilitary From CPS
As the federal government continues to grapple with means of settling its huge pension deficit, an additional N20 billion liability would be added to the stack upon passage of the bill for the exemption of the Police and other paramilitary agencies from the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS. Findings show that the Federal Government made a provision under the Service-Wide Vote …
Read More »Buhari Passes The Buck On Restructuring To National Assembly, Council Of State
In his first reaction to the deafening clamour for the restructuring of the country, President Muhammadu Buhari this morning passed the buck on discussions on Nigeria’s future to the National Assembly and the National Council of State, saying they are the “legitimate and appropriate bodies for national discourse”. Buhari, who by his statement effectively slammed the door against the report …
Read More »Full Text Of President Buhari’s Speech
BROADCAST BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI, AUGUST 21, 2017. My dear citizens, I am very grateful to God and to all Nigerians for their prayers. I am pleased to be back on home soil among my brothers and sisters. In the course of my stay in the United Kingdom, I have been kept in daily touch with events at home. Nigerians …
Read More »Osinbajo, Other Worshippers Celebrate Buhari’s Return At Villa Chapel
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and other worshippers at the Aso Villa Chapel on Sunday celebrated the return of President Muhammadu Buhari after 104 days of medical sojourn in London, United Kingdom. Buhari returned to the country on Saturday to wild jubilation by his supporters in Abuja and other cities across the country. To appreciate God for his recovery and safe …
Read More »Kaduna Hospital Announces Free Surgeries To Celebrate Buhari’s Return
An hospital in Kaduna has announced it would render free surgeries for poor Nigerians to commemorate the return of President Muhammadu Buhari from London. Buhari had returned to Nigeria on Saturday after 104 days of medical vacation in London. His supporters had been trying to outdo one another while celebrating and thanking God for his health. Joining the repertoire of …
Read More »Kogi Declares Monday Public Holiday For Thanksgiving Over Buhari
Kogi State Government has declared Monday, August 21 as a public holiday for citizens to thank God for the safe return of President Muhammadu Buhari to the country. The Director-General, media and publicity to the state governor, Mr. Kingsley Fanwo, said it was to enable the people to give thanks to God for bringing back President Buhari in sound health …
Read More »‘The Civil War Lies On Us Like A Sleeping Dragon’: America’s Deadly Divide – And Why It Has Returned
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1781. The American revolution still raged, many of his own slaves had escaped, his beloved Virginia teetered on social and political chaos. Jefferson, who had crafted the Declaration of Independence for this fledgling nation at war with the world’s strongest empire, felt deeply worried …
Read More »Trump Attacks Boston Counter-Protesters As ‘Anti-Police Agitators’
Donald Trump described anti-fascist and anti-racist demonstrators who converged on Boston as “anti-police agitators” on Saturday, in a tweet that seemed destined to revive the still simmering controversy over his remarks equating the far right and anti-Nazis in Charlottesville last weekend. “Looks like many anti-police agitators in Boston,” Trump tweeted. “Police are looking tough and smart! Thank you.” But he …
Read More »Funeral Thanksgiving Service Holds for Justice Andrews Otutu Obaseki in Benin
By Alltimepost.com A thanksgiving Service was on Sunday held for the patriarch of the Obaseki family and retired Supreme Court Judge, late Justice Andrews Otutu Obaseki at St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Benin City, the Edo State Capital. Delivering a sermon titled: “Entering the kingdom of God through our works” the Bishop, Anglican Diocese of Benin, Rt. Revd. Peter Imasuen, …
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