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The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said the federal government would institutionalise the patronage of locally-made products among its Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). He disclosed this in Abuja yesterday at the national media launch of the “Buy Made-in-Nigeria” campaign. “The federal government is not just paying lip service to this buy Made-in-Nigeria. We have taken concrete steps …

Following the revelation by the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, of attempts by some politicians to infiltrate the military, the Nigerian Army said Thursday that it was yet to make any arrests. This is just as a report by Transparency International (TI) stated Thursday that the Nigerian defence and security sector is steeped in corruption, revealing that …

France will be uncompromising in its fight against militant Islamists in Mali and the Sahel region, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday during his first visit outside Europe’s borders. Speaking alongside Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita at the Gao military base in the north of the country where some 1,600 troops are based, Macron also said France was determined to …

The Presidency on Friday confirmed that the National Assembly has formally transmitted the 2017 Appropriation Bill recently passed into law to the Executive. The Senior Special Assistant to the Acting President, Mr. Laolu Akande, confirmed this on his Twitter handle. He said the document was formally received in the office of the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Friday. Akande added …

Iranians headed to the polls on Friday to vote in a bitterly contested presidential election that is expected to set their country’s direction for a generation. The victor will influence not only Iran’s immediate future, but the looming battle to choose a new supreme leader. The two main candidates are both clerics, but have little else in common. Incumbent Hassan …

By Alltmepost.com A magistrate’s court in Banjul today issued arrest warrants for two people suspected of murdering Gambian editor Deyda Hydara in 2004, according to media reports. The two suspects are not in the country, according to reports. “These warrants are a significant step toward voiding the culture of impunity that was permitted to flourish under former President Yahya Jammeh in Gambia for decades,” …

By Alltimepost.com Benin City, Nigeria – Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, (ANEEJ) has condemned in strong terms the recent alleged brutal treatment meted out to a commercial bus driver in Benin City by men of the Nigerian Police Force. This latest in the series of alleged police brutality in the heartbeat of the nation happened on Wednesday, when …

A large number of Nigerians have condemned the chaining of an Edo State driver to a patrol truck along Sopkonba Road Junction, Benin, the Edo State capital. A resident, Augustine Ogbomwan, who was filming the torture of the unidentified driver with his mobile phone camera, was also said to have been detained by the police. It was learnt that some …

The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday signed three executive orders that will change some of the ways government business and operations are conducted in the country forthwith. According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, the Acting President signed the orders in exercise of the presidential authorities vested in the executive …

Fifty-nine inmates of the Ikoyi Prisons Lagos on Wednesday and Thursday sat for the on-going Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The figure was an improvement over the 32 that sat for the examination in 2016. The Principal of the Ikoyi Prison School, Mr Idris Ibikunle, said that the candidates were better prepared this year, adding that he was expecting a better …