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By Oladipo Airenakho Retired Major General Charles Ehigie Airhiavbere has formally declared his intention to contest the 2016 governorship election in Edo State on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Airhiavbere made his intention known on Friday during a news conference at the Edo State Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) immediately on his arrival from …

Abuja – National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has advised a female governorship aspirant in Edo, Mrs Tina Agbarha, to, as a woman, take her campaigns seriously. Odigie-Oyegun gave the advice at the party’s secretariat in Abuja on Monday when Agbarha, visited him. He told the aspirant to place less emphasis on role of money in …

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday confirmed the death of Taliban leader Akhtar Mohammad Mansur, who was targeted May 21 by a U.S. airstrike near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The president, who’s in Vietnam meeting with senior Vietnamese government officials, issued a statement about the deceased Taliban chieftain. “Today marks an important milestone in our longstanding effort to bring peace …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has renewed rejection of a French peace initiative, telling the visiting French prime minister that peace cannot be forged through international conferences but only through direct negotiations, The Times of India reports. “Peace just does not get achieved through international conferences, United Nations-style,” Netanyahu said on Monday at a press conference with French Prime Minister …

The 2013 audit and financial report of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry undertaken by the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has revealed that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) did not remit the $12.9 billion it received from the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Company over an eight-year period to the federal government. The report was presented monday in …

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has disputed THISDAY’s monday report that he had opted to go on exile in Cote d’Ivoire, confirming, however, that he was indeed in the West African country, but was not in exile. Speaking exclusively to THISDAY on the phone monday, the former president confirmed that he had been out of the country for over a month, …

Convicted former Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Temisan Omatseye, has appealed the five year – jail term slammed on him by Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos. Omatseye was prosecuted by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 27-count charge of bid rigging and contract splitting worth N271 million …

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, yesterday, justified last Saturday’s removal of Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the Port Harcourt convention, saying the party under the erstwhile leadership was headed towards the precipice. Wike’s justification of Sheriff’s sack was welcomed by Prof. Jerry Gana, leader of the PDP Concerned Stakeholders, who convened …

The US has lifted a decades-old arms embargo on Vietnam in a historic move that follows the country’s growing assertiveness against China’s influence in the region. Speaking on a visit to Hanoi, Barack Obama said Washington had fully lifted “the ban on the sale of military equipment to Vietnam that has been in place for some 50 years”. Obama is …

Donald Trump released his second annual personal financial disclosure statement last week. It was the largest ever and “tremendous”, according to Trump. And it did indeed show that the Trump brand appears to be thriving, financially speaking. But what remains unclear is whether this kind of financial wellbeing is a substantial, blue-chip prosperity, or whether it’s of the frothy Groupon …