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President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday warned against forced marriages and child abduction in the country, noting that every child has the right of education and the right to live. He also noted that decisive actions would be taken to stem what he described as unacceptable cases of violence and intimidation against children. Speaking in Abuja at the 2016 National Children’s Day …

The strike teams of Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, in the early hours of today,Saturday, struck in Bayelsa State, blowing up trunk line belonging to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company, NAOC and Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC The group, which claimed responsibility for the explosions in a tweet, said: “At About 2.15am on Saturday the @NDAvengers blow up Nembe 1, 2 …

After blowing up additional gas and crude oil trunk lines belonging to the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in Delta State, in a twin attack, Thursday night, the Niger Delta Avengers yesterday issued a notice to the Nigerian Military, International and Indigenous Oil Companies, IOCs, to watch out for “something big.” The fear was that the operation of the daring …

Niger Delta Avengers on on its tweeter handle at about 8:10AM, this morning, said: “At 11:45PM on Thursday, @NDAvengers blew up another NNPC Gas and Crude trunkline close to Warri. Pipeline that was heavily guarded by the military.” In an earlier tweet on Friday, it described the Niger Delta stakeholders meeting held on Wednesday at Abuja as an insult to …

President Muhammadu Buhari and state governors have ruled out elaborate celebrations to mark this year’s Democracy Day and their one year in office. Findings showed that this decision was not unconnected with the current downturn in the nation’s economic fortunes. Before now, past administrations usually marked May 29, Nigeria’s Democracy Day, with fanfare. This year’s event is particularly special as …

Eleven officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Gombe State were yesterday quizzed in connection with the receipt and sharing of N120 million to compromise last year’s general elections in the state. The eleven officials, who are the electoral officers drawn from the eleven Local Government Areas of the state, were grilled for hours at the Zonal Office of …

By Alltimepost.com Edo State Government will spend the sum of N3 billion to build more schools in the state, this year to provide opportunity for every Edo child to go to quality schools. The state Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole made the disclosure on Friday while speaking during this year’s International Children’s Day celebration at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City. …

Barack Obama called on the world to choose a future where Hiroshima was considered “the start of our own moral awakening”, as he became the first sitting US president to visit the Japanese city, 71 years after its bombing ushered in the nuclear age he vowed to bring to an end. In a scene many survivors of the US bombing …

For the first time, a US patient has been infected with bacteria resistant to an antibiotic used as a last resort, scientists said Thursday. The patient, a 49-year-old woman in Pennsylvania, has recovered but health officials fear that if the resistance spreads to other bacteria, the country may soon see supergerms impervious to all known antibiotics. “It is the end …

There is anxiety in the Niger Delta as the two-week ultimatum given owners of oil blocs in the region by Niger Delta Avengers to evacuate their staff and shut down operations ends today(Thursday ), while secret talks with the militant group have run into a hitch. The militant group in a statement by its spokesperson, Col Murdoch Agbinibo on May 12, …