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A black crocodile skin Hermes Birkin handbag toted by the wife of the president, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, has caused a social media storm, as Nigerians on Thuesday took to different social media platforms to express their mixed feelings. Mrs. Buhari was spotted with the 35cm Porosus Crocodile bag, which is estimated to cost anywhere between $50,000 and $300,000, at the …

The new leader of Boko Haram is the son of the group’s founder, according to a Boko Haram insider. Abu Musab al-Barnawi is about 25 years old and the second son of Mohammed Yusuf, who founded the group in 2002, the source told CNN. Mohammed Yusuf was captured and executed after a clash with Nigerian security forces in 2009. The …

Black Lives Matter UK campaigners have blocked roads leading to London’s largest airport, as part of a series of nationwide shutdown protests on Friday. Transport routes in other British cities have come to a standstill, with demonstrators chaining themselves together in Birmingham and Nottingham. More protests are planned in Manchester later today. The UK-wide protests mark five years since 29-year-old …

High-profile Republicans are reportedly considering whether to confront Trump amid the candidate’s increasingly outlandish behavior. Donald Trump has insisted all is well with his campaign even as Republicans grow increasingly worried about a candidate who seems to have gone permanently off-track. Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus is reportedly among a handful of high-profile Republicans considering whether to confront Trump …

Former Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, is the Special Guest of Honour at the 12thedition of the All Nigeria Editors’ Conference (ANEC) which starts today in Port Harcourt. Delegates arrived yesterday, 3 July. Venue is Hotel Presidential, Aba Road,in the city. Theme of this years’s conference is Economic Diversification: Agriculture as Option for a Prosperous Nigeria. Apart form Uduaghan, …

Bauchi – The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has described as demoralising, the erstwhile dichotomy between HND and B.Sc in the country. Its National President, Comrade Usman Dutse, a lecturer in the Department of General Studies, Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi, made this known in an interview on Wednesday. “At the last meeting of the council on establishment a memo was …

A former Chairman, House Committee on Appropriation, Mr. Abdulmumin Jibrin, on Wednesday alleged that the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, handed out $25,000 to lawmakers so that they could pass a vote of confidence on the speaker. Jibrin claimed that Dogara opened a register at his Asokoro guest house where each member who signed was handed the cash. Last week, he …

More trouble has continued to come the way of the Director of Finance of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s Presidential Campaign Organisation, Senator Esther Nenadi Usman, over the role she played in the disbursement of huge public cash to state chapters of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Northeast ahead of the poll. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Wednesday, subjected …

By Alltimepost.com Royal fathers in Edo North have assured Mr. Godwin Obaseki, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the September 10 gubernatorial election in Edo State that he will win the election and that Oshiomhole will hand over the baton to him on November 12, 2016. The traditional rulers who converged on the palace of the Otaru of …

Victims in Saraqeb, Idlib province, have breathing problems, and all are coughing and have bloodshot eyes, say doctors. More than two dozen people have been injured in a suspected chemical attack on a town in northern Syria, a doctor who treated the victims and aid workers said. The attack, using a gas cylinder laced with chlorine, targeted the town of …