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By Jim Garamone – DoD News BEIJING — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joe Dunford stressed today that there is no room in the U.S. military for racism and bigotry. Marine Corps Gen. Dunford is traveling in Asia and involved in high-level discussions centered on the nuclear threat posed by North Korea, but he took time …

Few days after the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) began an indefinite strike to press home their demand for better working condition, there are indication that higher education sector may soon witness more strike action as lecturers in Nigeria Polytechnics and Colleges of Education are bracing up for another round of industrial action. Leaders of the Academic Staff Union …

A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Airman, Kalu Bernard, has been sentenced to death for killing his lover, Solape Oladipupo, aka Shomzy Shomzy, on March 12 this year. The judgment, which started at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, dragged till 4:00 p.m. when it was stood down before the panelists reconvened at 7:30 p.m. Reading out the 70-page court findings, which lasted …

The House of Representatives Wednesday expressed shock at the failure of the Auditor General of the Federation (AGF), Anthony Ayine to carry out performance audit of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) after two years of operation. Ayine, who accepted that failure to audit the TSA for two years was detrimental to transparency in the business of government, was also not …

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday assigned portfolios to the two ministers sworn in on July 26. Stephen Ocheni (Kogi) is now the Minister of State for Labour while Suleiman Hassan (Gombe) is now the Minister of State for Power, Works and Housing. While Ocheni replaced the late Minister of State for Labour, James Ocholi, who died in a ghastly …

Donald Trump was forced to disband two White House business councils disintegrating around him on Wednesday in the wake of his controversial remarks about the weekend violence in Charlottesville. The Strategic and Policy Forum and the White House Manufacturing Jobs Initiative were both dissolved as corporate leaders continued to resign. Trump claimed in a tweet that this was his decision, …

Senior Republicans have lambasted Donald Trump after he once again drew a moral equivalency between the far right and counter-demonstrators during the deadly violence in Charlottesville on Saturday. But some elected Republican officials responded to an extraordinary press conference in Trump Tower on Tuesday night by denouncing bigotry on all sides, in signs of a possible rift in the party. …

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on Wednesday, admitted that the Federal Government indeed failed to meet its part of the agreement reached with the Academic Staff Union of Universities last year which led to the ongoing industrial action declared by the union. However, he said the government was not happy that ASUU embarked on the strike without following due …

The Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday dismissed the objection of the police to the hearing of the N300m fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans. Justice Abdulaziz Anka, in a ruling on Wednesday, dismissed the argument by the police that the case was not ripe for hearing because the Inspector-General of Police …

By Jim Garamone – DoD News SHENYANG, China — U.S. and Chinese defense officials are pulling no punches as they discuss issues of concern to both countries, including the problem posed by a nuclear-armed North Korea, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here today. Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford said meetings with his Chinese counterpart, Army Gen. …