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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday in Abuja decried the unsuccessful prosecution of high-profile corruption cases in Nigeria. Obasanjo expressed his displeasure while delivering the inauguration lecture of the Olusegun Obasanjo Good Governance and Development Research Centre, National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). The title of the lecture is “Leadership, Governance and the Challenges of Development in Nigeria: The Way Forward.’’ …

House Republicans are planning to hold a vote on Thursday on a controversial plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, expressing confidence that they had the votes to pass it. Majority leader Kevin McCarthy, emerging from a meeting in the office of House speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday evening, told reporters that Republicans had at least 216 yes …

The US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, has said Donald Trump’s “America first” approach to the world means decoupling US foreign policy from values such as human rights and freedom. Addressing state department diplomats and staff, Tillerson said there were times when insistence that foreign countries abide by US values got in the way of the pursuit of national interests. …

Hilary Clinton said on Tuesday she takes “personal responsibility” for her loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race. But the former Democratic nominee also blamed Russian interference in the US election and the release just before the election of a letter by the FBI director, James Comey, pertaining to the investigation into her emails, saying such factors deprived …

FBI director James Comey said on Wednesday that he thought concealing the discovery of new Hillary Clinton emails before last year’s election would have been “catastrophic”. Giving evidence to a hearing of the Senate judiciary committee on oversight of the FBI, Comey defended his decision to inform Congress that new emails had been discovered that could have a bearing on …

The Senate, on Wednesday, confirmed the nomination of two ministerial nominees sent to the chamber by President Muhammadu Buhari for legislative confirmation. They are Professor Stephen Nkani Ocheni (Kogi State) and Mr. Suleiman Zana Hassan (Gombe State). (Punch)

Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia said that the entry of the Chinese into Aba shoe and garment production process would engender healthy competition among producers. Ikpeazu disclosed this while showing the Chairman of Huajian shoe factory, China, Mr Zhang Huarong, some locations for sitting of factory around Aba metropolis. “The coming of Zhang Huarong and his team will boost the …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former heads of state, Ibrahim Babangida and Abubakar Abdusalami, on Tuesday met in Minna, Niger State capital. The meeting held at lbrahim Babangida’s hilltop mansion lasted for three hours and was believed to have dwelt on the state of health of President Muhammadu Buhari. The generals were said to have considered all constitutional options available for …

Donald Trump has again upended conventional political wisdom by advocating a government shutdown in September, to fix a “mess” in the Senate. The president’s tweets continued a return to wayward form after a period of relative stability. On Monday, remarks about the American civil war and the current crisis with North Korea prompted an influential historian to say that one …

The British Government on Tuesday said it has set aside ‎£5m to support the fight against human trafficking in Nigeria. The British Deputy High Commissioner in Nigeria, Laure Beaufiks, made this known in Benin during her visit to the Speaker of the Edo House of Assembly, Justin Okonoboh. “My Prime Minister, Theresa May, has set aside ‎£5m to support the …