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NAIROBI — President Obama called on African nations Saturday to confer equal rights to gays and lesbians, kicking off his first full day in the nation by undertaking a topic that remains highly sensitive on the continent. Kenyan President Kenyatta dismissed the importance of gay rights, calling it a “non-issue” in the nation. Speaking at a joint news conference after …

In a speech in Nairobi, he said his father’s homeland had “come so far in just my lifetime”. But he also said corruption, terrorism and tribal or ethnic division were threats to its future. “Kenya is at a crossroads, a moment filled with peril but enormous promise,” he said. Young Kenyans nowadays did not have to serve a colonial master …

By Alltimepost.com As a people with the numbers to affect elections in the United States of America Nigerian Americans have been urged to wake up and push for the acquisition of political strength so as to become relevant in the political dispensation of the free world. United States-based Community Leader/Activist and Chairman Council of President, Edo National Association Worldwide, Barrister …

US President Barack Obama said Saturday “Africa is on the move”, as he praised the spirit of entrepreneurship at a business summit in Kenya during his first visit to the country of his father’s birth since his election as president. “I wanted to be here, because Africa is on the move, Africa is one of the fastest growing regions in …

US President Barack Obama’s gathered with members of his extended family in Nairobi Friday, kicking off a two day visit to his father’s native Kenya. Obama’s familial connections to the East African nation were on display as soon as Air force One touched down in Nairobi, with the president’s sister Auma Obama among those assembled to greet him. The pair …

On the eve of his trip to Africa, US President Barack Obama said he was excited about the impending visit to his ancestral continent, which he said had great resilience and enormous potential for growth. Obama who left for Kenya on Thursday , marking his first presidential visit to the homeland of his father. From there, Obama will trace the …

The All Progressives Congress has said it was shocked at the magnitude of cases of corruption it has so far unearthed while going through the records of the previous administration. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this in a telephone interview with our correspondent in Abuja, on Thursday. He was reacting to the announcement by …

Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Thursday, described the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation as the engine room of corruption, lamenting that none of the perpetrators of illegal deals in the corporation had so far been apprehended and brought to justice. He, therefore, challenged the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress to assist the Federal Government to fight corruption by encouraging their …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said there was no truth in claims in the local and international media that he accused or indicted the United States Government of helping the terrorist group, Boko Haram. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President described the reports as widely off mark. He described the …

Boston – By Alltimepost.com As Nigeria continues to battle Islamic Boko Haram insurgency, with scores of innocent people being killed, Nigerians home abroad have been assured that the Nation will defeat terrorism. Deputy Defense Attaché to the Embassy of Nigeria in Washington D.C., United States of America, Col. Julius Ehioze Osifo gave the assurance recently in Boston, Massachusetts. The Nigerian …