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Ahead of the November 12, 2016 swearing-in of the governor-elect of Edo State, Mr Godwin Obaseki, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, the state government has set up a 19-member transition committee headed by the Secretary to Edo State Government, Professor Julius Ihonvbere. This came as APC in the state described as laughable, claims by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, …

A week ago, the US election looked to be over. Hillary Clinton was riding so high in the polls after a disastrous series of gaffes by Donald Trump that few could conceive of a Republican path to victory on 8 November. Friday’s shock intervention by the FBI may not be enough to change that outcome on its own, but it …

In what appeared to be a challenge to the federal government to encourage wealth creation as well as entrepreneurial initiatives, former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday said his government was able to produce 25 billionaires. The former president said this at a ceremony for the second edition of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Entrepreneurship Forum in Lagos. He however did not …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday instructed the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Idris Ibrahim, and governors of affected states to immediately commence investigations into the cases of sexual abuse and exploitation of women and girls in Internally Displaced Persons Camps as contained in a report by the Human Rights Watch. Buhari’s directive was contained in a statement made available to journalists …

The two Justices of the Supreme Court, Sylva Ngwuta and Inyang Okoro, who were among some judiciary officers recently arrested by the Department of State Services on corruption allegations, have voluntarily withdrawn from further participating in the proceedings of the apex court. We learnt on Sunday that the two senior judiciary officers would no longer sit until when they were …

Former President Goodluck Jonathan said decisions taken by his administration were guided by the overall interest of the nation and not ethno-religious or personal considerations. Jonathan said this during the Nigerian Lawyers Association’s annual dinner and merit awards ceremony held in New York, on Saturday. He noted that Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians and as such leaders must resist anything …

Another round of crisis appears to be brewing between the executive and the federal legislature over the present administration’s plan to borrow $29.96bn from external sources. President Muhammadu Buhari had, on Tuesday last week, asked the National Assembly to approve the external borrowing plan to enable his government to raise funds to execute key infrastructural projects across the country between …

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund, IMF, have piled pressure on the Federal Government to come up with an economic blueprint, if its drive for foreign loans was not to be stalled. Vanguard gathered that officials of both financial institutions have questioned the Minister of Finance and her team over the absence of a blueprint for which the loans …

By Alltimepost.com Following years of community outreach, Boston-based evangelical mission, Fire of Life Ministries, now has a church of its own to be dedicated to the glory of God on Sunday October 30, 2016. The event will take place at the church building, 66 Spark Street Brockton, Massachusetts, United States of America from 11:30am to 1:30pm. The founder of the …

Whatever doubts gnaw at Donald Trump at dead of night, his hardcore supporters will not allow him to give up the dream of the White House. All 18 people interviewed by the Guardian at a Trump campaign rally in the battleground state of Ohio on Thursday night challenged the basic premise that he is losing. If anything, they seemed even …