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The Acting President, Professor Yemi Osibanjo, has approved the immediate appointment of 21 new permanent secretaries in the Federal Civil Service. The appointments were announced in a statement issued by the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita (HoS). The statement, signed by Imrana Haruna, the Director, Communications, on behalf of the HoS, said the …

In an apparent bid to respond to the deafening clamour for the country’s restructuring, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that no individual or entity in the country can lay claim to being a stronger advocate of restructuring than itself. The National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, who made the remark Thursday while inaugurating the committee on …

– A coalition of Niger Delta agitators on Thursday handed down an ultimatum to Northerners and Yoruba from south west zone resident in the region to vacate before October 1. The coalition also said that it is set to resume the bombings of major oil and gas installation in the coastal region. Made of up 8 frontline groups, the agitators …

Donald Trump signaled he could soon declare a state of emergency in an attempt to deal with America’s opioid overdose crisis. A commission reporting to the president said recently that declaring a state of emergency was its “first and most urgent recommendation”. But Trump, in his first remarks on the subject, appeared to set his face against treating the epidemic …

Roy Moore, the controversial former judge and a leading contender in Alabama’s Senate race, has said “maybe Putin is right” and “more akin to me than I know” given the Russian leader’s stance on gay marriage. Moore, who was propelled to fame in 2001 over his refusal to remove a monument to the Ten Commandments that he’d installed in state …

Donald Trump has issued another provocative warning to North Korea, suggesting that his threat to unleash “fire and fury” on the country was not “tough enough”. The US president told reporters that North Korea “better get their act together or they’re going to be in trouble like few nations ever have been in trouble in this world”. Trump was speaking …

By Victor Ofure Osehobo Benin City, Nigeria – Edo-Delta organization, known as the Midwest Movement has demanded a structural deconstruction and reconstruction of the Nigerian Federation as presently constituted in order to survive its existential problems. Structural deconstruction and reconstruction was part of an eight-point demands the organization made from the Nigerian government to ensure the integrity of the nation, …

By Terri Moon Cronk – DoD News WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will visit Washington state and California this week, a Pentagon spokesman announced on Monday. Mattis will visit Naval Base Kitsap in Seattle and the Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental in California’s Silicon Valley among other stops before he returns Aug. 11, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said. Kitsap will be …

By Terri Moon Cronk – DoD News WASHINGTON — The increased use of commercial and privately owned small unmanned aircraft systems has raised Defense Department concerns for the safety and security of its installations, its aviation and its people, a Pentagon spokesman told reporters on Monday. Guidance was sent Aug. 4 to the services and to installations about the use …

Chicago will sue the Trump administration on Monday over threats to withhold public safety grant money from so-called sanctuary cities, the city’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel, announced on Sunday. The federal lawsuit, which escalates a nationwide pushback against a federal immigration crackdown, comes less than two weeks after the US attorney general, Jeff Sessions, announced that the justice department would strip …