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Senate Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan has told Nigerians that the 2017 budget would be smoothly and promptly passed, just as he said that the leadership will meet today with chairmen of committees on the way forward for the budget. Speaking with journalists yesterday, Senator Lawan, said that after the meeting which would ensure a seamless budget process, committees would then …

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents defied the orders of federal judges regarding Donald Trump’s travel bans on Sunday, according to members of Congress and attorneys who rallied protests around the country in support of detained refugees and travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries. On Sunday afternoon, four Democratic members of the House of Representatives arrived at Dulles airport in Virginia …

Minister of Transportation and former Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, yesterday, lambasted Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State for playing politics with the safety and security of Rivers people. Amaechi also said Wike was trying to mislead Nigerians over the purchase and importation of two helicopters into Nigeria by the past administration. Wike had in a statement by …

Donald Trump and his advisers have stood firm after a weekend of outrage over his vague and chaotically enforced ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries. On Sunday afternoon, while attorneys argued with customs and border officials over the fate of people still detained at airports around the country, the US president released a statement that insisted on the legality …

By Alltimepost.com Following nation-wide protest against ban on immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority nations and the subsequent court ruling against part of the executive order, the beleaguered Trump administration, late on Sunday backpedaled, with clarification exempting holders of green-card from the ban, “absent the receipt of significant derogatory information.” In a statement, The Secretary to the Department of Homeland …

California has announced a proposal, called “Calexit” that would establish it as a separate nation from the U.S., officials have said. The proposal for California to secede from the U.S. was submitted to the Secretary of State’s Office on Thursday, according to a report. The proposed “Calexit” initiative was a name borrowed from the UK’s “Brexit” departure from the EU. …

(Edo) -Mr Johson Oghuma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has emerged the winner of the Etsako Federal Constituency by-election in Edo. Oghuma emerged winner with 39,876 votes to defeat the People’s Democratic Party candidate Mr Jude Imagwe who polled 18,193 votes. The Returning Officer for the election, Prof. Shola Omotola, who announced the result at about 12:45 am on …

Donald Trump’s executive order to close America’s borders to travellers from some Muslim-majority countries caused chaos on Saturday, as multiple people who had flown to the US were held at major airports while others were barred from boarding flights or were pulled off planes overseas. By Saturday evening, there were 11 people in detention at New York City’s John F …

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has revealed that he officially wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari asking him handed over to the Nigerian Air Forcethat the two armoured helicopters bought by the immediate past administration in the state. Wike in a statement explained that he wrote the letter following the high custom duty charged for the helicopters and the refusal …

Refugees and migrants have been blocked from boarding flights to the US or clearing customs in the country after Donald Trump signed an executive order banning the entry of nationals from a string of predominantly Muslim countries. Cairo airport officials reportedly confirmed seven US-bound migrants, six from Iraq and one from Yemen, were prevented from boarding an EgyptAir flight to …