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By Alltimepost.com The Government of Denmark has thrown its weight behind the initiatives of Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration in Edo State, conceived to stop the illegal migration of Edo people abroad. The Minister for Development Cooperation, Denmark, Ulla Tornaes, who was part of a delegation to Government House in Benin City on Thursday, led by the Ambassador of the country …

By Alltimepost.com A valedictory court session in honour of the first Bini indigene to become a Supreme Court Justice, Late Retired Justice Andrew Otutu Obaseki, held on Thursday at the High Court of Justice in Benin City, Edo State. The session attracted legal luminaries from across the country, who gathered to pay their last respects to the foremost jurist who …

By Alltimepost.com Edo State Government is to partner with the Federal Government to close the existing gaps in the management of Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS). Governor Godwin Obaseki disclosed this on Wednesday when he played host to the Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, who led a delegation of the National Agency for the …

By Jim Garamone – DoD News BEIJING — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joe Dunford stressed today that there is no room in the U.S. military for racism and bigotry. Marine Corps Gen. Dunford is traveling in Asia and involved in high-level discussions centered on the nuclear threat posed by North Korea, but he took time …

Few days after the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) began an indefinite strike to press home their demand for better working condition, there are indication that higher education sector may soon witness more strike action as lecturers in Nigeria Polytechnics and Colleges of Education are bracing up for another round of industrial action. Leaders of the Academic Staff Union …

A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Airman, Kalu Bernard, has been sentenced to death for killing his lover, Solape Oladipupo, aka Shomzy Shomzy, on March 12 this year. The judgment, which started at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, dragged till 4:00 p.m. when it was stood down before the panelists reconvened at 7:30 p.m. Reading out the 70-page court findings, which lasted …

The House of Representatives Wednesday expressed shock at the failure of the Auditor General of the Federation (AGF), Anthony Ayine to carry out performance audit of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) after two years of operation. Ayine, who accepted that failure to audit the TSA for two years was detrimental to transparency in the business of government, was also not …

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday assigned portfolios to the two ministers sworn in on July 26. Stephen Ocheni (Kogi) is now the Minister of State for Labour while Suleiman Hassan (Gombe) is now the Minister of State for Power, Works and Housing. While Ocheni replaced the late Minister of State for Labour, James Ocholi, who died in a ghastly …

Donald Trump was forced to disband two White House business councils disintegrating around him on Wednesday in the wake of his controversial remarks about the weekend violence in Charlottesville. The Strategic and Policy Forum and the White House Manufacturing Jobs Initiative were both dissolved as corporate leaders continued to resign. Trump claimed in a tweet that this was his decision, …

Senior Republicans have lambasted Donald Trump after he once again drew a moral equivalency between the far right and counter-demonstrators during the deadly violence in Charlottesville on Saturday. But some elected Republican officials responded to an extraordinary press conference in Trump Tower on Tuesday night by denouncing bigotry on all sides, in signs of a possible rift in the party. …