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The Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday issue a bench warrant against a former governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani, who was charged with an alleged fraud of N5.3bn. Justice Chuka Obiozor issued bench warrant against the ex-governor for failing to appear in court on Monday for his scheduled re-arraignment. The judge held that Nnamani’s counsel failed to give …

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on Sunday announced his return to the Peoples Democratic Party. He made the announcement in a live Facebook broadcast. Atiku was among notable politicians who left the PDP in 2014 to form an alliance that transformed into the All Progressives Congress. In the broadcast, the former vice-president said in the last two years of President Muhammadu …

By Jim Garamone – DoD News WASHINGTON — United States Defense Department has clear orders from President Donald J. Trump “to build a stronger military, take care of our men and women, and excel in our business operations,” Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan said yesterday. Shanahan was the closing speaker at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, …

By Jeremy Fuster and Ross A. Lincoln – The Wrap Corey Lewandowski, the fired manager of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, is set to release a tell-all book on Tuesday that goes inside the businessman’s chaotic but successful run to the White House, and how every person involved became, at one point or another, a target of Trump’s wrath. According to …

By Vanguard Newspaper   With over 1 million Lagosians living with one form of disability or the other, Association of Intellectual Disabilities in Nigeria, AIDDN, and the Children Developmental Centre, CDC, have trained parents of children living with disabilities, particularly, cerebral palsy with a view to assisting them in managing their wards living with such conditions. Speaking at the 2017 …

By Jimitota Onoyume – Vanguard Newspapers Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said he will continue to work with former President Goodluck Jonathan to firmly reposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for victory in 2019. The governor, in a statement by his media aide, Mr Simeon Nwakaudu on Sunday, said there was no friction between him and the former …

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Abuja – Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has called on the Nigerian government to take proactive steps to urgently stem the tide of illegal migration of the nation’s young people, resulting in their increasing incidents of enslavement and deaths around the world. Nigerians for many years now have been leaving the shores of …

The Senate passed its tax reform bill in the early hour of Saturday morning, following a day full of Republican leaders making changes to bring enough members on board and a long night full of heated rhetoric on both sides of the aisle. The vote was 51-49, mostly along party lines. Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee was the only Republican …

Former Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, has said that 57 years after independence, the nation was yet to develop a national internal security policy that would recognise, strengthen and adopt community policing as an internal security model in the fight against crime and maintenance of law and order. Arase said such a policy should have defined the principles of …

Annnlmost everything about Michael Flynn’s guilty plea to perjury and his cooperation agreement with the special counsel investigation into Russian election interference suggests that it is part of a much bigger picture, legal experts said on Friday. “It’s the first time the former head of a major US intelligence agency has faced criminal charges related to improper dealings with a …