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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 …

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.” …

Bernie Sanders may propose Hillary Clinton’s nomination Tuesday evening, as part of a last-minute deal being hammered out by the two camps as they seek party unity amid a chaotic convention in Philadelphia. The Sanders campaign is asking the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign to allow Vermont to formally call for her nomination — a symbolic gesture that …

Following the official flag-off ceremony for commercial operations of the 185km Abuja-Kaduna standard gauge rail project, on Tuesday, in Abuja, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari, saying “We are excited that President Muhammadu Buhari has commissioned our project.” The PDP which took to its verified Twitter handle @PdpNigeria to hail President Buhari said: “We congratulate …

Residents of Oghara community in Delta State on Tuesday, barricaded the Benin-Warri section of the East-West road over an alleged illegal acquisition of a large portion of land belonging to the community by authorities of the Nigerian Navy Logistics Command Oghara, Delta State. The protest which lasted for several hours created heavy gridlock until the men of the Nigeria Police …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called for the merging of government’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as part of efforts to curb wastage in government. Obasanjo made the call on Tuesday in Abeokuta while addressing members of the Joint Tax Board who paid him a courtesy call at his Hilltop residence. The former president said that government needed to block …

Michelle Obama cast the presidential race as one between a positive role model for children — in Hillary Clinton — and a damaging one — in Donald Trump — in the marquee speech on the Democratic National Convention’s opening night. The first lady never mentioned Trump by name, but leveraging her popularity, she made a rare, if not unprecedented, foray …

President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the Abuja-Kaduna commercial train operation. After series of postponements, the President Today (Tuesday) flagged off the commencement of full commercial operations of the rail project. The modernisation phase of the project commenced with the signing of the contract for the construction of Abuja (Idu) to Kaduna (Rigasa) rail line in 2009. Buhari said the new …

Oladipo Airenakho   Benin City – As earlier speculated, a reshuffle of the principal officers in the Edo State House of Assembly was on Monday effected on the floor of the Assembly, with the Speaker Rt. Honourable (Mrs) Elizabeth Ativie stepping down and exchanging position with her former Deputy, Honourable Justin Okonoboh. The move is considered to be a balancing …

Thirty one years after his administration was toppled in a military coup, President Muhammadu Buhari has finally opened up on why he was sacked. Buhari said in an exclusive interview granted The Interview, that he was removed from office because he was planning to purge the military hierarchy of corruption. Buhari, who has not spared the military even in his …