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The US Vice-President, Mike Pence, has said the US under President Trump remains committed to co-operation and partnership with the European Union. However, he urged members of the Nato alliance to meet their defence spending targets, warning that Americans could lose patience with their allies. Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance was “important because we live in times …

(CNN)   President Donald Trump is facing a humbling prospect: The same Washington buzzsaw that frustrated his 44 predecessors can pose significant hurdles for him as well. In his first month in office, Trump has found the vast government machine can’t be reset at a president’s whim with the same ease that an executive can manage a business. Rival power …

Legal practitioner, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has withdrawn the court case he filed against the confirmation of Ibrahim Magu, as the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). At the Federal High Court, Sitting in Lagos, on Monday, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Tayo Oyetibo, who appeared for Adegboruwa, told the presiding Justice Mojisola Olatoregun that he had persuaded his …

The Independent National Electoral Commission has closed its defence in the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, at the Edo State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, without calling any witness. The petitioners are challenging INEC’s declaration of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Godwin Obaseki, as winner of the September 28 poll and …

A detachment of policemen this afternoon barricaded the entrance to the international conference centre, venue of the meeting scheduled by the Ahmed Makarfi led National Caretaker committee of the Peoples Democratic Party for an enlarged meeting of it’s members to deliberate on the outcome of the Portharcourt Appeal court which upheld the leadership of Ali Modu Sheriff as the chairman …

The Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi has said that he would introduce a law prohibiting poor men from marrying more than one wife, saying there is a connection between polygamy, poverty and terrorism. He said because muslims practice polygamous marriage, most poor men end up marrying up to four wives with as many as 20 children whom they sometimes don’t …

Senator John McCain has warned that suppression of a free press is “how dictators get started”, criticizing Donald Trump’s continued declarations that newspapers and news networks are “the enemy of the American people”. “I hate the press,” McCain told NBC’s Meet the Press in an interview, taped at a security conference with European leaders in Munich.. “But the fact is …

The White House has disputed reports of contacts between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian officials, even as the president continued to search for a national security adviser to replace retired general Michael Flynn, who resigned last week after revelations that he misled the vice-president about his calls to Russia’s ambassador. In a series of interviews, the White House chief …

Even as Senator Modu Sheriff extends olive branch to the National Caretaker committee of the PDP to join him in rebuilding the party, the spokesman of the Committee, Dayo Adeyeye. yesterday insisted that it will appeal the judgment to the Supreme Court. In a statement he issued in Abuja, Adeyeye said apart from being a “ big disappointment” , the …

“People should respect themselves and not create more problems for the party.” With these words, the court-declared National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, yesterday, took charge of the opposition party. The Court of Appeal, sitting in Port-Harcourt, had, on Friday, declared Sheriff as the National Chairman of the PDP after a legal battle for …