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By Alltimepost.com STUTTGART, Germany — The commander of U.S. European Command toured various facilities yesterday as part of his second visit to Israel as Eucom commander to strengthen military ties between the United States and its ally. In a meeting with Israeli Defense Force Chief of Staff Lt. Gen Gadi Eizenkot during his visit, Army Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti underscored …

By Allimepost.com CAMP H.M. SMITH, Hawaii — U.S. Pacific Command has deployed the first elements of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, known as THAAD, to South Korea, implementing the U.S.-South Korean alliance’s July decision to bring the defensive capability to the Korean Peninsula. North Korea’s accelerating program of nuclear weapons tests and ballistic missile launches constitute a threat …

While the White House on Tuesday stood by Donald Trump’s assertion that he was wiretapped by Barack Obama during the 2016 presidential campaign, top Republicans on Capitol Hill provided little support to bolster his explosive and unsubstantiated claim. Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, said he had not seen any evidence to back up a series of tweets by Trump …

The Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has ordered security operatives to ensure a strict enforcement of the ban on street begging, hawking as well as commercial motorcyclists also known as ‘okada’ riders as from today. The state had, in the wake of an attack by Boko Haram insurgents in Zaria in 2015, banned street hawking, begging and the activities …

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo has apologised to people of the state, especially those in Benin metropolis, for the traffic difficulties experienced during Acting President Yemi Osinbajo’s visit on Monday. The governor in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr John Mayaki, on Tuesday, regretted the inconveniences people went through during the visit and assured such situation would be …

After months of extensive consultation with stakeholders from both the private and public sectors of the economy, the Federal Government on Tuesday finally released the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, which raised the Value Added Tax rate on luxury items from the current five per cent to 15 per cent. Through the increase in VAT rate on luxury items, which …

The acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Tuesday inaugurated Justice Walter Onnoghen as the 17th indigenous Chief Justice of Nigeria with a call on Nigerian judges to strive not only to be seen as just but also to be just indeed. He also said that Nigerians have lost confidence in all the arms of government in the country. The inauguration, which …

The Federal Government, on Tuesday, filed seven counts, comprising money laundering and economic crimes-related offences against 23 officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission before the Federal High Court in Abuja. The INEC officials were accused of receiving N350m from Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State in connection with the rerun elections which took place in the state on December …

Despite Donald Trump’s claim that his administration is running like a “fine-tuned machine”, activists have already managed to score victories against some of the most anti-progressive policies of the president and his Republican allies. Through rallies, marches and dogged pursuit of elected officials, people across the country have helped to block some of Trump’s initiatives, and draw attention to government …

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) workers have accused the National Chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, of selective implementation of the judgment of the Court of Appeal that reinstated him. The staff said contrary to the court’s order for return to status quo ante, in the leadership of the party, Sheriff was working with only three members of the party’s National Working …