The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Sunday said the Federal Government would at the appropriate time convert the proposed new official residence being built for the Vice President to another use. Osinbajo said this in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, amid continued criticism of the project which is expected to gulp …
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About 40 fire incidents were recorded in different parts of Lagos State over the weekend, the Commissioner for Special Duties and Intergovernmental Relations, Mr Seye Oladejo, has said. Oladejo disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday at scene of fire outbreak at a plastic factory in Oshodi. It was gathered that no life was …
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By Lisa Ferdinando – DoD News WASHINGTON — The United States strongly supports NATO and will be “unwavering in its commitment to the transatlantic alliance,” Vice President Mike Pence said at the Munich Security Conference today. President Donald J. Trump has a promise that the United States will stand with Europe, Pence said, “because we are bound together by the …
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When press officers at the White House glance up from their desks, they are constantly reminded of their boss’s big day. On the wall, in thick dark frames, are photos: Donald Trump taking the oath of office, giving a thumbs up at his inaugural address, bidding farewell to Barack Obama, waving to the crowd during his inaugural parade, dancing with …
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Immigrant communities across the United States are in a state of fear and uncertainty after a week of immigration raids and leaks from the Trump administration that have raised the specter of a mass deportations. The White House denied the most alarming leak – a draft memo suggesting it considered mobilising 100,000 national guard troops to round up and deport …
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John McCain said on Friday that Donald Trump’s administration was in “disarray” and that Nato’s founders would be alarmed by the growing unwillingness to “separate truth from lies”. The Republican Senator broke with the reassuring message that US officials visiting Germany have sought to convey on their debut trip to Europe, telling a Munich security conference the resignation of the …
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By any measure it would be hard to follow Donald Trump’s transfixing 77-minute press conference on Thursday, but the deputy assistant to the president, Sebastian Gorka, made a good fist of it. During an 11-minute volley, he whacked back question after question from an exasperated Evan Davis, accusing the BBC’s Newsnight host of “falling into the trap of fake news”, …
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The Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, Governors’ Forum on Friday kicked the outcome of the Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt,Rivers State that reinstated Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as as the National Chairman of the Party,describing it as a rape on the Nation;s democracy. Addressing news men in Abuja yesterday, the Chairman of the Forum who is also the Ekiti state …
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The crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP worsened yesterday after the Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt sacked the Senator Ahmed Makarfi led National Caretaker Committee which enjoys the support of the mainstream of the party and its organs. The Appellate Court by a 2-1 majority affirmed that the party offended its own constitution in the way and …
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Petrol subsidy is back. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has been offsetting for months the difference between the landing costs of petrol and the pump price. In series of interviews with knowledgeable players in the sector, NAN can report authoritatively that the landing costs per litre of petrol is higher than the price Nigerians pay at the pump. According to …
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