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The House of Representatives has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as the most corrupt Nigerian to have held a public office, deploring his tactic of always seeing himself as the only clean human being. It made a formal reaction on Thursday to the ex-President’s latest attacks on the National Assembly, saying that he churned out “outright lies and falsehoods, and …

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has commissioned the brand new Spirits Production Lines of Guinness Nigeria Plc which is the first of its kind to be established by the beverage company. At the commissioning ceremony yesterday in Benin City, Governor Obaseki, who expressed his age-long personal relationship with and commended the board members of Guinness, tasks companies operating in Nigeria …

In apparent defiance of an Appeal Court ruling that set aside the Justice Abang judgement that ordered INEC to publish Jimoh Ibrahim’s name as the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate for the November 26 election in Ondo State, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim has vowed to continue with his campaign. The three-man panel of the appeal court led by Justice Ibrahim Saulawa, …

The Federal Government on Wednesday said while it had met seven out of the eight demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, it could not meet the union’s demand for earned allowance worth N284bn. This, the Federal Government said, was due to economic recession. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, said this while answering questions from …

In a judgment lasting three tension-soaked hours, the Appeal Court, Abuja, resolved the controversy surrounding the governorship ticket of the Ondo Peoples Democratic Party in favour of Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, sending the PDP supporters in the 40-year-old state into wild jubilation. The judgment delivered on Wednesday by the Justice Ibrahim Saulawa-led three-member panel lifted the pall of uncertainty hanging over …

(CNN) President-elect Donald Trump is sounding a different tune as he prepares to take on the mantle of the presidency. The brash businessman has already begun to step away from some of his rhetoric and promises he made during the presidential campaign — ranging from how he’ll treat Hillary Clinton to what he can accomplish with Congress. Here’s Donald Trump …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday ended its week long warning strike, asking lecturers nationwide to return to their classrooms, even as negotiations continued with the federal government, especially on one of the crucial demands by the union that government must exempt universities in the country from the Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy. The policy requires all federal …

Relief appears on the way for motorists and commuters plying the Enugu-Onitsha and Enugu-Port Harcourt express roads, as the Federal Government has mobilized contractors to return to sites to rehabilitate the roads that have been death traps for some times. Work on the Enugu-Onitsha highway was abandoned over 10 years ago. It will be recalled that eminent citizens from the …

By Alltimepost.com Members of Edo Civil Society Organizations were attacked this morning while protesting the recent passage of the bill, amending the existing legislation on the Pension Rights of Governors and their Deputies, with the approval of N300m housing largesse for ex-governors and their deputies by the state lawmakers. As planned, the showdown started at about 7: am Nigerian time …

Donald Trump has issued a video outlining his policy plans for his first 100 days in office and vowing to issue a note of intent to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership “from day one”. In the brief clip posted to YouTube on Monday, the president-elect said that “our transition team is working very smoothly, efficiently, and effectively”, contradicting a wealth …