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Donald Trump praised his former chief strategist Steve Bannon on Saturday, as it emerged that he and his wife are to skip a prestigious arts awards ceremony and White House reception with the fallout from the president’s comments on Charlottesville showing no sign of abating. “I want to thank Steve Bannon for his service,” Trump tweeted. “He came to the …

Steve Bannon has been removed from his post as White House chief strategist, ending his highly contentious career at the center of the Trump administration. A statement from the White House press secretary was sent to journalists on Friday afternoon after multiple outlets reported Bannon was on his way out. “White House chief of staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon …

President Muhammadu Buhari has finally arrived Abuja after over 100 days’ stay in London, United Kingdom, where he had been receiving medical attention since May 7. The presidential aircraft that conveyed the President landed at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, at about 4.35pm. The President disembarked from the aircraft, NAF 001, at about 4.48pm. He …

President Muhammadu Buhari who has been receiving medical attention in London, the United Kingdom since May 7 is expected back in Nigeria today. He is also scheduled to address Nigerians in a nationwide broadcast on Monday. His Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists on Saturday morning. The statement …

· Gov. Obaseki, Oshiomhole, Dangote salute his achievements · Priest reflects on life of Otutu Obaseki at Service of Songs By Alltimepost.com Retired Supreme Court Justice, Andrews Otutu Obaseki, was on Friday laid to rest at his home in Benin City, as leaders from across the country extolled his enviable virtues. The funeral service for the late Justice was held …

The cover pages of the New Yorker and Economist have criticised President Donald Trump’s defence of a white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia. In an editorial, the Economist said Trump is “politically inept, morally barren and temperamentally unfit for office”. While it said Trump was not himself a white supremacist, the piece accused him of bungling “the simplest of political …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) declared yesterday that the Federal Government lied against the union, when she told Nigerians that the union did not follow due process and legal procedures because it did not give the required strike notice before it embarked on the on-going strike. The President of ASUU, Comrade Biodun Ogunyemi, gave the clarification as indications …

The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday read the riot out to proponents of hate speech in the country, saying they were engaging in terrorism. Osinbajo spoke at the National Security Summit organised by the National Economic Council at the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The council, which is chaired by the Acting President, has all the …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday in Ibadan said that the bogus earnings of National Assembly members portrayed them as a “bunch of unarmed robbers.” Obasanjo, spoke at a public presentation of a book written by Prof. Mark Nwagwu, titled, ‘I am Kagara, I Weave the Sands of Sahara,’ in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. He also called on the …

By Alltimepost.com Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obasekil has demonstrated his adminitration’s commitment to check inflated road construction contracts in the state, bearing in mind what he called the frugal financial allocations acruing from the Federal Government. The Governor said he has set up a contact group with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) to review …