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Former Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, is the Special Guest of Honour at the 12thedition of the All Nigeria Editors’ Conference (ANEC) which starts today in Port Harcourt. Delegates arrived yesterday, 3 July. Venue is Hotel Presidential, Aba Road,in the city. Theme of this years’s conference is Economic Diversification: Agriculture as Option for a Prosperous Nigeria. Apart form Uduaghan, …

Bauchi – The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has described as demoralising, the erstwhile dichotomy between HND and B.Sc in the country. Its National President, Comrade Usman Dutse, a lecturer in the Department of General Studies, Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi, made this known in an interview on Wednesday. “At the last meeting of the council on establishment a memo was …

A former Chairman, House Committee on Appropriation, Mr. Abdulmumin Jibrin, on Wednesday alleged that the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, handed out $25,000 to lawmakers so that they could pass a vote of confidence on the speaker. Jibrin claimed that Dogara opened a register at his Asokoro guest house where each member who signed was handed the cash. Last week, he …

More trouble has continued to come the way of the Director of Finance of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s Presidential Campaign Organisation, Senator Esther Nenadi Usman, over the role she played in the disbursement of huge public cash to state chapters of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Northeast ahead of the poll. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Wednesday, subjected …

By Alltimepost.com Royal fathers in Edo North have assured Mr. Godwin Obaseki, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the September 10 gubernatorial election in Edo State that he will win the election and that Oshiomhole will hand over the baton to him on November 12, 2016. The traditional rulers who converged on the palace of the Otaru of …

Victims in Saraqeb, Idlib province, have breathing problems, and all are coughing and have bloodshot eyes, say doctors. More than two dozen people have been injured in a suspected chemical attack on a town in northern Syria, a doctor who treated the victims and aid workers said. The attack, using a gas cylinder laced with chlorine, targeted the town of …

Republican nominee makes claims on campaign trail while ignoring controversy over his remarks about a Muslim soldier’s parents. Donald Trump has claimed that there is a possibility of the US presidential election being “rigged” as he tried to divert attention away from a disastrous week for his campaign by also labelling his rival Hillary Clinton as “the devil” and praising …

ABUJA – The leadership of the All Progre‎ssives Congress APC is currently meeting with sacked Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Dr Abdulmumuni Jibrin over his claims that Speaker Yakubu Dogara padded the 2016 national budget to the tune of N40 billion. Decked in a white flowing African robe (Kaftan), Jibrin arrived the secretariat around 2:09pm in …

The leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila Monday said fellow lawmakers and by extension all Nigerians, should not judge the Speaker of the House of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and three other principal officers accused of “insertions” of billions into the 2016 budget. Gbajabiamila made the appeal Monday in a statement to his colleagues made available …

There was a palpable tension in the House of Representatives on Monday over an alleged plot to remove the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, over the budget padding allegations made by a former Chairman of the Committee on Appropriation, Mr. Abdulmumin Jibrin. It was gathered that many members were ruffled, forcing a large number of them to rush from their vacation …