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President Barack Obama called Tuesday for a halt to any new construction or militarization of Asia’s oceans and reaffirmed the U.S. right to operate freely in international areas. Speaking at the close of a meeting with Southeast Asian leaders in California, Obama pressed for a “halt to reclamation, new construction and militarization” of Asia’s oceans, an indirect reference to China’s …

ABUJA—Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, yesterday, said the Senate would strive to pass the 2016 budget before the end of March. Mohammed Ndume This came on a day the House of Representatives Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Abdulrazak Namdas, said submission of the 2016 budget on February 25 might still be realisable. The Senate Leader said March was the deadline …

By Alltimepost.com United States Departments of Commerce and the Treasury have announced the second round of the U.S.-Cuba Regulatory Dialogue, taking place in Washington, D.C. from February 17 to 18, 2016. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker will open the Dialogue with Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca. For the remainder of the Dialogue, experts from the …

By Alltimepost.com WASHINGTON — United States Defense Department sent Congress its 2015 report on North Korea’s military power last Thursday, Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters. The report, “Military and Security Developments Involving the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” was originally mandated in 2012 to inform Congress and the public of DoD’s analytical assessment of North Korea’s activities …

Senators and members of the House of Representatives have rejected a plan to withdraw the troubled National Budget from their custody. The budget had run into troubled waters shortly after it was presented by President Muhammadu Buhari on December 22, 2015, with stories of doctoring, padding and injection of foreign contents doing the round at venues of budget defence at …

The detention by house arrest effected on four Air Vice Marshals and some Air Commodores at Niger Barracks, Abuja, over alleged corruption has started yielding fruits as it was gathered that one of the officers, of Air Vice Marshal rank has returned the sum of N66 million to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) The anti-corruption war was sequel …

By Kingsley Abavo Edo State government now relies heavily on revenue earnings from taxation as a measure to cushion the adverse effects of continued fall in revenues from the Federation Allocation due to plummeting global oil price. Tax revenue drive is something the Oshiomhole administration is pursuing aggressively as a policy, though surprisingly, out of the about four million residents …

Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday urged Nigerians to always demonstrate the virtues of loyalty, honesty and determination to make Nigeria better as demonstrated by former Head of State, late Murtala Mohammed. The President made the call while speaking at the Murtala Mohammed 40th Memorial Lecture in Abuja. He said Nigerians, irrespective of their age brackets, should always exhibit …

The Supreme Court on Friday gave its reasons for affirming Barrister Nyesom Wike and Senator Ibikunle Amosun as the validity elected Governor of Rivers and Ogun state in the April 11, 2015 governorship election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the two states. The apex court had on January 27, 2015 upheld the election of the two …

MINISTER of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, on Thursday, revealed how the Bank Verification Number (BVN) introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for all bank customers exposed 23,000 ghost workers in the employ of the Federal Government. Speaking before the Senate Committee on Finance, Adeosun said “we have about 23,000 workers that we need to investigate: those whom either …