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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday in Abuja, apologised to Nigerians for the mistakes the party made while in power. National Chairman of the party, Mr Uche Secondus, made the apology at a public national discourse on “Contemporary Governance in Nigeria.” On behalf of the party, Secondus apologised to Nigerian for impunity, imposition of candidates and other mistakes made …

Realising that the only Dapchi girl still in Boko Haram captivity was not released contrary to what the IGP earlier said Nigerians may expect, the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has attempted to walk back his statement by claiming he was misquoted. Mr. Idris had on Saturday afternoon said Leah Sharibu, the Christian girl whom Boko Haram refused to free …

The day we had been thinking about for six weeks was finally here: we were going make history, and we were also going to document it. Since the shooting that killed 14 students and three staff members at our school in Parkland, Florida, on 14 February, my classmates and I have been working relentlessly, day and night, to make sure …

Hundreds of thousands of marchers are expected to descend on Washington DC on Saturday for a landmark gun control rally as calls for reform reach a fever pitch following the Parkland school shooting last month. March for Our Lives events led by young people in over 800 locations around the world – including London, Sydney, Tokyo, Mumbai, plus hundreds of …

John Yusuf, the pension thief who five years ago, was given a slap on the wrist by Justice Abubakar Talba of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, for stealing N32.8billion police pension money, has finally gotten his deserved sanctions. A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal Abuja Division, headed by Justice Abdul Aboki, on Wednesday jailed him six years …

A former Nigerian Defence Minister, Theophilus Danjuma, on Saturday accused the Nigerian armed forces of aiding the ongoing killings in Nigeria, especially the deadly attacks in his home Taraba State. “The armed forces are not neutral,” Mr. Danjuma said at the maiden convocation of the Taraba State University in Jalingo, the state capital, on Saturday afternoon. “They collude with the …

Spanish police officials have rescued 39 women and girls smuggled from Nigeria and trafficked into sex work by a notorious Nigerian gang. Europol said the victims were kept in “squalid conditions in caves” and intimidated with voodoo threats. Gang members forced the women into sex work in order to pay off a 30,000 euro ($37,000; £26,000) debt. At least 89 …

For those, who doubted the efficacy of the curse on human traffickers by the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare 11, the calls on trafficked girls to come and take their pubic hairs and pants from shrines are indeed a direct response to the doubts. We learnt that native doctors, who hitherto held the power of life and death over the …

Donald Trump announced on Friday that he has reluctantly signed Congress’ $1.3tn spending bill, despite a threat he made hours earlier to veto the budget and shut down the federal government. The US president had caused consternation with a tweet suggesting that he might exercise his veto right due to the bill’s lack of immigration measures. But in impromptu remarks at …

By Alltimepost.com Efforts of the Edo State Government to grow its rubber stock and boost non-oil receipts with the 2,500-hectare rubber plantation in Urhonigbe, Orhionmwon Local Government Area are being supported the Nigeria government. The Executive Director, Nigeria Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Mr. Olusegun Awolowo has disclosed that If farmers improve their activities to grow rubber using improved seedlings, they …