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The Federal Government has disclosed plans to collaborate with the private sector to create three million jobs in three years starting from this year. The plan is contained in government’s “Strategic Framework and Implementation Plan for Job Creation and Youth Employment in Nigeria,” is targeting the areas of Technology, Wholesale and Retail, Construction and Agro-allied sectors of the Nigerian economy. …

The Minister of State, Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, has said that the Federal Government would unveil the new national aviation policy within the next two weeks. This is contained in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja by Mr Sunday Iyogu, the Principal Information Officer in the minister’s office. According to the statement, Sirika made the disclosure when a delegation …

Marco Rubio is dropping out of the presidential race after losing the Florida primary to Donald Trump and failing to unite the Republican establishment against the billionaire front-runner. “We live in a republic and our voters make these decisions,” Rubio said in Miami Tuesday night as his supporters booed Trump’s victory. His speech was a thinly veiled rebuke of Trump’s …

The Senate and House Joint Committee on Appropriation has detected fresh errors in the 2016 budget. It was gathered that the errors were responsible for the failure of the committee to present its report to the two chambers of the National Assembly on Wednesday as it had promised. Investigations, however, showed that the errors would not affect the plan of …

A chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo North, Chief Jasper Olowojoba, has faulted claims by the state Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that the recent rowdy session in the Edo State House of Assembly that led to a-two week adjournment was because of alleged mismanagement of state resources and abandonment of governance by Governor Adams Oshiomhole. Olowojoba, an industrialist, …

By Lisa Ferdinando – DoD News WASHINGTON — The Defense Department condemns Sunday’s terrorist attack in Ankara, Turkey, as another horrific act committed against the Turkish people, the Pentagon’s press operations chief said on Monday. “We stand with our Turkish allies in the face of these heinous acts and will continue to deepen our ongoing cooperation in the fight against …

By Lisa Ferdinando – DoD News WASHINGTON — Louisiana National Guardsmen have rescued more than 4,000 people in the floods that have inundated the state over the past week, a state Guard spokesman said. About 1,200 Louisiana Army and Air National Guard members have been mobilized and are working with local partners to support the mission, said Air Force Col. …

If the Nigerian Army authorities get the nod of President Muhammadu Buhari, all suspected serving officers in the ongoing investigation into the $2.1bn arms procurement scandal will undergo military trial, The PUNCH has learnt. A competent government source confided in our correspondent on Sunday that military authorities had sought the President’s permission for the officers to be prosecuted under the …

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday leave Abuja for Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in continuation of the Federal Government’s efforts to achieve greater security of lives, resources and investments in all parts of Nigeria and its sub-region. According to a statement on Sunday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President will, during his visit to …

By Alltimepost.com Boston – Secretary of Commerce, Penny Pritzker hosted the first Innovation and Investment in the Digital Economy Dialogue with Vice President of the European Commission, Andrus Ansip, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) last Friday in Boston Massachusetts. The high level exchange included a bilateral meeting between the two leaders, and a roundtable discussion with invited senior …