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(CNN) Donald Trump’s transition is being marked by sharp internal disagreements over key cabinet appointments and direction, both for internal West Wing positions and key national security posts, sources involved in the transition team tell CNN. One source with knowledge of the transition described it as a “knife fight.” The split has put traditional Republican operatives such as Reince Priebus …

Former Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, is dead. He died at the age of 93. Secretary to the Sultanate Council, Alhaji Faruk Ladan, announced in a statement he issued in Hausa saying that the 18th Sultan of Sokoto, Dasuki, died on Monday night and that his funeral service would take place after Zuhr prayer in the afternoon of Tuesday …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities said it would embark on a one week warning strike over failure by the Federal Government to implement the 2009 Agreement and 2013 MoU. ASUU National President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, on Monday told a news conference that the National Executive Council of ASUU resolved to embark on a one week warning strike from Wednesday …

At least 10 people were killed and several others injured Monday when police opened fire during clashes with members of a pro-Iranian Shiite group outside the northern Nigerian city of Kano, said witnesses and police. “I saw fifteen bodies sprawled on the ground before the police evacuated them,” grocer Ilyasu Ammani said. “Our men opened fire because they were becoming …

As the country continues to grapple with the economic recession, speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has charged President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote and other industrialists to exhibit patriotism by helping ensure that the country came out of the current recession. This is even as Alhaji Dangote urged Governor Obaseki of Edo State to adopt …

US President-elect Donald Trump made the first top appointments of his new administration Sunday, naming Reince Priebus his White House chief and Steve Bannon as his chief strategist and senior counselor. “I am thrilled to have my very successful team continue with me in leading our country,” Trump said in a statement. “Steve and Reince are highly qualified leaders who …

Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, weekend assured the citizens of the state that his government was elected to serve and nothing more, declaring that government was not a place to make money. Speaking at a luncheon held in his honour at Government House, Benin City, after his inauguration as the governor of Edo State, Governor Obaseki, insisted that …

The Federal Government’s draft National Oil Policy has proposed to consolidate Nigeria’s oil industry regulatory authorities into a single agency to be known as Petroleum Regulatory Commission, PRC, while scrapping all other regulators, including the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, and Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, among others. According to the document released by …

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo on Monday in Benin, announced the appointment of Mr Osarodion Ogie as Secretary to the State Government Also appointed, according to him, are Mr. Taiwo Akerele as Chief of Staff and Mr. John Mayaki as his interim Chief Press Secretary. The governor, who made the announcement while addressing the Head of Service of the state …

(CNN) Hillary Clinton told donors in a conference call Saturday that FBI Director James Comey delivered a double whammy to her candidacy in the final days of the campaign by taking another look at emails related to Clinton’s private server before abruptly saying he found no wrongdoing. A member of her national finance committee who was on the call told …