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PM announces resignation following victory for leave supporters after divisive referendum campaign David Cameron has resigned, bringing an abrupt end to his six-year premiership, after the British public took the momentous decision to reject his entreaties and turn their back on the European Union. Just a year after he clinched a surprise majority in the general election, a visibly emotional …

Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Godwin Obaseki yesterday said he decided to congratulate the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu because “I don’t play politics of bitterness”. The Director General of the Obaseki Campaign Organization, Osarodion Ogie, had in a statement congratulated Ize-Iyamu for his emergence as the PDP governorship candidate and …

All officers from the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) to Inspector-General of Police, will henceforth declare their assets, the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, has declared. Idris made the statement on Thursday in Abuja when he paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd). He said that the directive was in …

Mrs Maryam Uwais, Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Protection Investment, says no fewer than 8.4 million Nigerians will benefit from the Federal Government’s Social Intervention Project. Uwais made the statement on Thursday in Abuja in a presentation, “Investing in our People,’’ she made at a workshop on National Social Protection Policy Framework by Federal Ministries, Departments and …

Chaos as Speaker Paul Ryan is drowned out by chants and singing from group trying to bring an end to continued failure of Congress to tighten firearm laws. Democrats drowned out the Speaker with chants, sang We Shall Overcome on the floor of the House of Representatives and held up pictures of gun violence victims as they continued a sit-in demanding …

By Oladipo Airenakho Unknown assailants, last Sunday morning slit the throat of a 75-year old woman, Mrs. Bessy Egbeobamwonyi in Benin City, Edo State, leaving her dead beside her sleeping four-year old grandson. It was gathered that the killers broke into her apartment in the middle of the night, slit her throat, and stabbed her severally before abandoning her lifeless …

Following allegation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, justifying the freezing of Governor Ayodele Fayose’s Zenith bank account over alleged link of funds from the office of the National Security Adviser, Governor Fayose on Wednesday, denied the allegations. The EFCC had alleged that the funds, amounting to about N4.7billion, was moved from accounts operated by two of Mr. …

By Alltimepost.com Following the crisis that erupted from Edo APC primary election held last Saturday in Benin City, which some of the aspirants described as fraudulent, the Secretary to the Federal Government, Mr. Babachir David Lawal has summoned all the contestants and stakeholders to a meeting in Abuja to resolve the issue. Among the stakeholders attending, is Governor Adams Oshiomhole …

Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force, NDLF, yesterday, alleged that some top Army officers planning to overthrow President Muhammadu Buhari goverment had approached Niger- Delta militants to continue bombing oil installations to give pretext and justification for a coup against him. The militant group in a statement by the Commander, General Duties, Joint Revolutionary Council, JRC, of JNDLF, General Akotebe Darikoro …

President Muhammadu Buhari has cried out, saying that leading the people of Nigeria was a huge task. In a manner that suggested that the weight of the present challenges facing the Nigerian State was telling on his leadership, the president urged his Ministers and indeed, Nigerians to pray for the country. He however said that instilling patriotic spirit in the …