The Court of Appeal sitting in Benin City to hear Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and People’s Democratic Party (PDP’s) Appeal against the Election Petition Tribunal Judgement on the September 26 election passed judgement on Friday, upholding the declaration of Governor Godwin Obaseki of All Progressives Congress (APC) as Governor of Edo. Counsels to both parties had argued their briefs on May …
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By Lisa Ferdinando – DoD News WASHINGTON — Defense officials outlined the need for consistent congressional support for the critical mission of modernizing and maintaining effective nuclear deterrent systems during testimony on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. James A. MacStravic, performing the duties of undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, told the Senate Armed Services Committee’s subcommittee on strategic …
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The Federal Executive Council (FEC) wednesday approved a new information communication technology (ICT) package, tagged ICT Roadmap 2017 to 2020 with the intention of creating 2.5 million jobs and a specialised ICT University by 2020. Briefing journalists at the end of the weekly FEC meeting in the State House, the Minister of Communications, Mr. Adebayo Shittu, described the new ICT …
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Royal Dutch Shell has resumed crude exports from its Forcados terminal in Nigeria after production was disrupted following repeated attacks by militants in the restive oil-producing region, a company spokesman said Thursday. The resumption will see Nigeria’s oil production rebound to around 2 million barrels per day (bpd), adding more barrels to the market at a time when the Organization …
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The fired FBI chief, James Comey, has publicly revealed how Donald Trump put pressure on him to shut down an investigation into a senior adviser’s links to Russia. Trump asked Comey to drop his investigation into the former national security adviser Gen Michael Flynn, Comey’s first written account of his interactions says. “I hope you can see your way clear …
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One day before James Comey is due to give evidence to the Senate intelligence committee, the committee has released a written statement from the ex-FBI director, who Donald Trump fired last month. Here’s what we’ve learned from the statement. Trump and Comey’s first meeting, 6 January Leaders of the intelligence community decided to tell Trump at the beginning of January …
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New York – Nigerian authorities should swiftly bring to justice all those behind the beating of journalist Charles Otu and the shooting of publisher Samuel Nweze, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Wednesday. Otu, the publisher and editor of biweekly The People’s Conscience newspaper and a contributor to Nigeria’s daily Guardian newspaper, told CPJ that men abducted him from …
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The Independent National Electoral Commission has registered five new political parties. The five successful new political parties were said to be part of the 95 associations that applied to the Commission for registration as political parties. It was gathered that two of the political associations voluntarily withdrew their applications. The five successful parties are Young Progressive Party, Advanced Peoples Democratic …
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The police on Wednesday said they had deployed detectives to arrest northern youths, who ordered Igbo to quit the North before October 1, 2017. The groups had, on Tuesday, issued a three-month ultimatum to people of Igbo extraction, resident in the 19 states in the North, to leave the North or be forced out before October 1, 2017. A prepared …
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By Erasmus Ikhide Apparently worried by the rate of unemployment in Nigeria, a leading economic expert, Professor Patrick Utomi has called on the federal government to embrace youth empowerment as a panacea to the lingering economic problem in the country. Utomi at the national launch of YouthCan!, an initiative by SOS children’s Village in Lagos, averred that Nigeria’s dwindling economy …
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