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The Senate passed its tax reform bill in the early hour of Saturday morning, following a day full of Republican leaders making changes to bring enough members on board and a long night full of heated rhetoric on both sides of the aisle. The vote was 51-49, mostly along party lines. Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee was the only Republican …

Former Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, has said that 57 years after independence, the nation was yet to develop a national internal security policy that would recognise, strengthen and adopt community policing as an internal security model in the fight against crime and maintenance of law and order. Arase said such a policy should have defined the principles of …

Annnlmost everything about Michael Flynn’s guilty plea to perjury and his cooperation agreement with the special counsel investigation into Russian election interference suggests that it is part of a much bigger picture, legal experts said on Friday. “It’s the first time the former head of a major US intelligence agency has faced criminal charges related to improper dealings with a …

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has said the current surge in illegal migration is as a result of the lack of critical institutions to equip youths with requisite skills to survive in a globalized world. Obaseki said this when he received Senior Participants of Course 40, Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, led by Rear Admiral Kamarudeen Lawal, …

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — By using the internet, terrorists can quickly and effectively recruit, incite violence, transfer funds and organize attacks with relative freedom and secrecy across borders to an almost limitless audience. “But, their advantage is not absolute,” said retired Army Lt. Gen. Keith W. Dayton, director of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, a German-American security …

Ob Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has called on youths, governments, healthcare workers and researchers not to relent on the campaign to rid the world of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Obaseki made the call on the occasion of the commemoration of the World Aids Day, December 1, every year, set aside by the World …

WASHINGTON – The Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center’s traumatic brain injury clinic at Naval Medical Center San Diego and the Naval Health Research Center at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego are developing and using cutting-edge research to better help service members, their family members and retirees. At the research center, Kristen Walter is conducting DoD’s first research …

The Senate Republicans’ tax bill hangs in the balance, after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Thursday that votes would continue into Friday and GOP leaders grapple with how they can satisfy the conference’s deficit hawks. GOP leaders had previously hoped to vote the bill out of the chamber by Thursday, but during floor debate one key proposal hit a …

San Francisco (CNN)  A jury on Thursday found an undocumented immigrant not guilty in the July 2015 death of Kate Steinle, a decision that reignited the debate over immigration policy. Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, 45, was acquitted of murder and involuntary manslaughter charges, as well as assault with a deadly weapon. Jurors convicted the Mexican citizen of being a felon …

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, on Thursday appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to lead the fight against the trafficking of black Africans and modern-day slavery, particularly in Libya. There is a growing trend of migrants, who get trapped in Libya, being sold off by trafficking gangs in the North African country. Reports indicate that most of …