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By Alltimepost.com New York —The Committee to Protect Journalists will honor journalists from Cameroon, Mexico, Thailand, and Yemen with its 2017 International Press Freedom Awards in November 2017, according a statement made available to Alltimepost.com on Tuesday by the Media Watchdog. The journalists have faced government harassment, death threats, or imprisonment in their pursuit of the truth. CPJ is also …

Edo State governor Mr. Godwin Obaseki has assured of his administration’s determination to look into the challenges facing education at both the primary, secondary and tertiary institutions respectively. He made this known while receiving Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS), led by its Chairman Comrade Dr. Bridget Asemota during a courtesy visit to Edo State Government House yesterday. Obaseki …

Edo State Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Rt. Hon. Paul Ohonbamu has expressed the state government’s commitment to strengthen the government-owned print medium Bendel Newspapers Company Limited, publishers of The OBSERVER titles for optimally performance to compete with other national dailies. The Commissioner made this known when he paid a working visit to familiarize with the tabloid publishing house in …

Igbo indigenes living in the 19 Northern States have commended Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC, over its meeting with the Arewa youths with a view to resolving the October 1 deadline quit notice to the Igbo in the North. This is even as the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday raised alarm over the recent visit of the former British Prime …

Chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP including serving and former governors, former ministers and principal officers of the National Assembly were last night locked in a strategic meeting aimed at revving up the party. As the meeting commenced, the national chairman of the party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi said only a miracle could stop the party from regaining power at …

By Alltimepost.com New York – Nigerian authorities have been urged drop all charges against Luka Binniyat and release the journalist from jail immediately, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Monday. A judge ordered the journalist to be detained on charges of “breach of public peace” and false reporting over an article he wrote for the daily, Vanguard, according to …

… Additional Visas for Temporary Workers Provided Until End of Current Fiscal Year By Alltimepost.com WASHINGTON — U.S. businesses in danger of suffering irreparable harm due to a lack of available temporary nonagricultural workers will be able to hire up to 15,000 additional temporary nonagricultural workers under the H-2B program under a final rule that the Departments of Homeland Security …

A former governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has identified poverty and hunger as the main causes of agitations by several ethnic groups in Nigeria. He said that the situation was forcing people faced with abject poverty to seek help in ethnic and tribal groups. Obi said this in Calabar during the 7th edition of the Bridge Leadership Foundation, …

South-West, South-East, South-South and Middle Belt leaders on Saturday, united against the threat of Fulani herdsmen and called for a new fiscal formula that would move Nigeria from its current dependence on oil and gas revenues to a fully diversified economy. The leaders admonished the Federal Government to immediately disarm all herdsmen in the country and bring an end to …

He’s a billionaire construction magnate who likes shiny and expensive things and built a luxury tower block adorned with his own name: it’s not surprising that people have referred to Aras Agalarov as the Russian Trump. Agalarov and his pop singer son Emin have known the Trump family for years, and emails released this week by Donald Trump Jr suggest …