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Acting President Yemi Osinbajo will explain how the Executive Orders he signed last week on boositing the economy will function when he meets on Wednesday with a cross-section of middle level and senior public and civil servants. Senior Special Assistant on Media to the acting President Laolu Akande said yesterday that The interactive session, he said, is part of measures …

The Supreme Court has dismissed an application filed by a factional leader of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, Ali-Modu Sheriff, asking the court not to hear a motion by his challenger, Ahmed Makarfi. Mr. Sheriff had asked the court to refuse to hear the application filed by Mr. Makarfi, challenging the February 17 judgement of the Appeal Court in Port Harcourt …

“The Espionage Act is 100 years old this year and remains what Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan referred to as a ‘singularly opaque document.’ That’s the problem. It could be used by an administration angry enough at the press to seek to criminalize routine and often societally beneficial revelations of governmental misconduct,” Floyd Abrams, who represented the New York …

The US and Saudi Arabia have reached a $110bn-plus arms deal, significantly expanding the longstanding security relationship between the two countries, the White House has said. Hours after landing in Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, the President’s first stop on his foreign trip, Donald Trump and Saudi King Salman signed a series of agreements that included a military sales agreement of …

Oba Ewuare II N’Ogidigan of Benin on Friday recalled Mrs Victoria Orhue ostracised from Obe N’Evbueribo in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo by Odionwere (head) and Ohen of the village. The Oba also directed that all her lands and other property that were confiscated by the village leadership be returned to her immediately. Ewuare II gave the order at …

The former FBI director James Comey is to testify in public during the US inquiry into Russian interference, it has been announced, as a series of damaging revelations pile further pressure on the embattled president Donald Trump. Comey, who was sacked by Trump on 9 May in the midst of an investigation into the president’s links to Russia, is to …

Donald Trump received a glittering welcome from leaders in Saudi Arabia on the first day of his first international tour, as the two countries agreed a series of military deals worth nearly $110bn (£85bn). The US president’s decision to make the Saudi capital his first foreign call was seized on by senior Saudi officials as a symbol that Washington aimed …

Edo state Government has condemned, in strong terms, the dehumanizing treatment meted to one Kester Edun, who was handcuffed to the back of a moving police van recently, while also ordering a probe into the matter. The state government also added that those involved in the act would be brought to book. It would be recalled that material recently circulated …

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said the federal government would institutionalise the patronage of locally-made products among its Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). He disclosed this in Abuja yesterday at the national media launch of the “Buy Made-in-Nigeria” campaign. “The federal government is not just paying lip service to this buy Made-in-Nigeria. We have taken concrete steps …

Following the revelation by the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, of attempts by some politicians to infiltrate the military, the Nigerian Army said Thursday that it was yet to make any arrests. This is just as a report by Transparency International (TI) stated Thursday that the Nigerian defence and security sector is steeped in corruption, revealing that …