Hillary Clinton beamed with emotion as she took the convention stage to become the first woman ever to accept a major U.S. party’s presidential nomination. “It is with humility, determination and boundless confidence in America’s promise that I accept your nomination for President of the United States,” Clinton said to thunderous applause at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Clinton …
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Governor Adams Oshiomhole has taken a swipe at the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu for claiming that he made him (Oshiomhole) the Governor, saying Ize Iyamu did not even vote for him so he couldn’t have made him Governor. Speaking at a rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Garrick Memorial College, …
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US President Barack Obama has delivered a stirring speech at the Democratic convention, hailing Hillary Clinton as his political heir and rounding on “home-grown demagogue” Donald Trump. “There has never been a man or woman, not me, not Bill, nobody more qualified than Hillary” to be president, he said. When boos rang out at the name of the Republican candidate, …
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The leadership crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, deepened on Thursday, as the Federal High Court in Abuja, sacked the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led Caretaker Committee of the party. The court, in a ruling by Justice Okon Abang, held that every action the Committee has taken since it emerged through a convention the party purportedly held in Port Harcourt on …
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By Oladipo Airenakho Benin City – For a mother, knowing that she is on the verge of losing a son due to inability to procure medical treatment for his illness is the most painful, dreadful, emotional and psychologically devastating experience. Such is the situation with Mrs. Charity Atoi, a Benin-based street trader and mother of four-year old boy, Testimony Atoi, …
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The Ali Modu Sheriff-faction of the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party is to appear before a Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday (today) to argue its application for an interlocutory injunction seeking to stop the party from going ahead with its planned national convention scheduled to hold on August 17. The nine plaintiffs said they filed the …
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By Alltimepost.com Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State says his administration has created a conducive environment for investments to thrive, explaining that the $1 billion Azura Power Project will make the state the hub of power generation in the country. Oshiomhole who made this known when the United States Consul-General in Nigeria, Mr. F. John Bray, visited him on Tuesday, …
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President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed delight that train services were back in Nigeria as was the case in the 80s. The President, who spoke while commissioning Abuja-Kaduna rail track, which also coincided with the flagging off of Abuja-Kaduna at Idu Industrial layout, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, yesterday, said the project would impact on the lives of Abuja residents as well …
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By Cheryl Pellerin – DoD News WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Ash Carter Tuesday rolled out the department’s second innovation hub, a new office in Boston that joins the technology outpost that he opened last year in Silicon Valley, California. The secretary has championed Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, or DIUx, as one of the ways the Pentagon is investing in innovation …
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By Alltimepost.com Oghara, Delta State – Citizens of Okurho in Delta State have cried out to the Federal Government of Nigeria to have the Nigerian Navy vacate their lands, alleged to have been illegally acquired by the Command. The lands, which according to the community measure about 600 x 600 were “illegally annexed, and forcefully acquired from the original owners.” …
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