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Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court in Abuja has lambasted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for its display of gross misconduct in the prosecution of an alleged N3.1 billion corruption case by the anti-graft agency. The judge who accused the EFCC of frustrating proceedings in the trial and attempting to take over control of his court …

A bus assigned to the Press Unit of the Edo State Government House was involved in an accident on its way from an official assignment on Wednesday, March 14, 2018. A number of people in the bus and three other vehicles that were involved in the accident, including a medical doctor and a mother and child, sustained varied degrees of …

Great Benin King, Oba Ewuare II’s stern actions against human trafficking, including placing curses on perpetrators of the illicit trade continue to draw support from Edo people and groups in Nigeria and around the globe. Recently, Edo Gobal Organization, a frontline pan-Edo cultural group, with members spread across various countries of the world joined the increasing number of people and …

Strong indications emerged yesterday that another crisis may be looming between the Presidency and the legislative arm of government, as President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate, declining assent to the new amendment to the Electoral Act, which seeks to re-order the sequence of polls during 2019 general elections. President Buhari President Buhari in a letter to the Senate, read …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday summoned the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Buhari seized the opportunity of the encounter to query Idris for flouting his directive that he should relocate to Benue State following the killings recorded in the state. The meeting was said to have lasted about 30 minutes after which Idris left the …

Nigeria’s president, in a visit to the country’s troubled northeast, on Monday predicted success in what he described as relentless efforts to release more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram. The jihadists are still holding 112 of the 219 students they abducted from the Borno state town of Chibok in April 2014, and also 110 pupils taken from Dapchi, …

By Igbotako Nowinta, Alltimepost.com Nigeria Bureau Chief Benin Zonal Commander of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Mr. Nduka Nwawwenne, has described the Benin Monarch as an extraordinarily effective and result- oriented Royal Father, whose concerted effort has made NAPTIP job easier in Edo State. Nwawwnne spoke to Alltimepost .com last Friday at the Palace …

The Peoples Democratic Party has said President Muhammadu Buhari, in saying that he was unaware that the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, did not carry out his orders regarding the security situation in Benue State, has directly admitted running an “incompetent, disorganised and uncoordinated administration.” The main opposition party asked the President to tell Nigerians how he reprimanded Idris …

Donald Trump has fired his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, and announced his intention to replace him with the CIA director, Mike Pompeo. Trump announced the shake-up in a tweet, adding that Gina Haspel, Pompeo’s deputy, would become the CIA’s first female director. Tillerson’s departure had long been predicted after a series of clashes over policy. But the announcement, made …

A presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari did not know about the absence of the Inspector General of Police in Benue because he is “not omniscient”. Mr. Adesina made this known while appearing on a RayPower FM public affairs programme, Political Platform, Tuesday morning. Mr. Buhari has come under attacks particularly from Nigerians on social media …