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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has invited the Edo State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Dan Orbih, over the N700 million allegedly received by the party to fund the 2015 presidential election. A source said that Orbih was being quizzed at the Port Harcourt office of the EFCC over his alleged role in the collection and disbursement …

Hillary Clinton launched a no-holds-barred attack on her likely general election opponent, Donald Trump, in a speech laced with explicit warnings about the dangers of electing him to the presidency. The former US secretary of state returned to Detroit on Monday to address the Service Employees International Union’s international convention and ask its 2.1 million workers for help in defeating …

The Obama administration has quietly seeded the diplomatic bed for its next push to transfer detainees out of Guantánamo Bay, the Guardian has learned, as Barack Obama aims to reduce the prison’s population before leaving office. According to US officials, the administration has deals in place to send approximately two dozen longtime Guantánamo detainees to about half a dozen countries. …

Barack Obama has said Washington supports Vietnam’s territorial claims against Beijing in the South China Sea and promised it greater access to security equipment. “In the South China Sea, the US is not a claimant in current disputes, but we will stand with our partners in upholding key principles like freedom of navigation,” the US president said in a speech …

The Minister for Information and Culture with the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, Monday, said the Federal Government is considering opening a robust dialogue with the Niger-Delta militants on the need to stop militancy in the oil rich region. The duo who spoke an interactive session with a coalition of civil societies in Lagos, chaired by Dr. …

By Oladipo Airenakho Retired Major General Charles Ehigie Airhiavbere has formally declared his intention to contest the 2016 governorship election in Edo State on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Airhiavbere made his intention known on Friday during a news conference at the Edo State Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) immediately on his arrival from …

Abuja – National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has advised a female governorship aspirant in Edo, Mrs Tina Agbarha, to, as a woman, take her campaigns seriously. Odigie-Oyegun gave the advice at the party’s secretariat in Abuja on Monday when Agbarha, visited him. He told the aspirant to place less emphasis on role of money in …

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday confirmed the death of Taliban leader Akhtar Mohammad Mansur, who was targeted May 21 by a U.S. airstrike near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The president, who’s in Vietnam meeting with senior Vietnamese government officials, issued a statement about the deceased Taliban chieftain. “Today marks an important milestone in our longstanding effort to bring peace …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has renewed rejection of a French peace initiative, telling the visiting French prime minister that peace cannot be forged through international conferences but only through direct negotiations, The Times of India reports. “Peace just does not get achieved through international conferences, United Nations-style,” Netanyahu said on Monday at a press conference with French Prime Minister …

The 2013 audit and financial report of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry undertaken by the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has revealed that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) did not remit the $12.9 billion it received from the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Company over an eight-year period to the federal government. The report was presented monday in …