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Eleven officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Gombe State were yesterday quizzed in connection with the receipt and sharing of N120 million to compromise last year’s general elections in the state. The eleven officials, who are the electoral officers drawn from the eleven Local Government Areas of the state, were grilled for hours at the Zonal Office of …

By Alltimepost.com Edo State Government will spend the sum of N3 billion to build more schools in the state, this year to provide opportunity for every Edo child to go to quality schools. The state Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole made the disclosure on Friday while speaking during this year’s International Children’s Day celebration at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City. …

Barack Obama called on the world to choose a future where Hiroshima was considered “the start of our own moral awakening”, as he became the first sitting US president to visit the Japanese city, 71 years after its bombing ushered in the nuclear age he vowed to bring to an end. In a scene many survivors of the US bombing …

For the first time, a US patient has been infected with bacteria resistant to an antibiotic used as a last resort, scientists said Thursday. The patient, a 49-year-old woman in Pennsylvania, has recovered but health officials fear that if the resistance spreads to other bacteria, the country may soon see supergerms impervious to all known antibiotics. “It is the end …

There is anxiety in the Niger Delta as the two-week ultimatum given owners of oil blocs in the region by Niger Delta Avengers to evacuate their staff and shut down operations ends today(Thursday ), while secret talks with the militant group have run into a hitch. The militant group in a statement by its spokesperson, Col Murdoch Agbinibo on May 12, …

The family of the immediate past National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, has said that their son is ready to refund the N400m he allegedly collected from the office of the former National Security Adviser, Lt.Col. Sabo Dasuki (retd). Chief Gilbert Metuh, who issued the statement on behalf of the Metuh family, said his brother’s …

The rescued 14-year-old Ese Oruru was on Thursday morning delivered of a baby girl. Ese, was allegedly abducted in Bayelsa State in August 2015 and taken to Kano State where she was converted to Islam and married out without the consent of her parents. Since her return to Yenagoa, she has lived at the Police Officers’ Mess in Yenagoa, Bayelsa …

By Alltimepost.com Several passengers of Dana Airline, a commercial air fleet in Nigeria were stranded and embarrassed on Thursday morning when aggrieved workers, including pilots of the company embarked on a strike action as a result of unpaid three – month salaries. Alltimepost.com gathered that two of their scheduled flights, one going to Abuja and the other to Eastern part …

The federal government has named a new set of chief executives for six agencies under the Ministry of Information and Culture. The appointments were announced in Abuja wednesday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed. The new Directors-General are: Mr. Ishaq Modibo Kawu – Director-General, Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC); Mr. Mansur Liman – Director-General, Federal Radio Corporation of …

The Federal Government and the Nigeria Labour Congress have set up a 16-man committee to work out palliative measures and fashion out a new minimum wage that will cushion the effects of the increase in the pump price of petrol. The NLC had announced the suspension of its strike to demand for reversal of pump price per litre from N145 …