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The Senate President, Bukola Saraki’s family and a former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, were among some prominent Africans named in a newly discovered secret offshore assets scam released by a German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. The German newspaper on Monday released the Panama Papers, the biggest leak in the history of data journalism, publishing online 11.5 million documents from …

Baring any last minutes change, a detailed clean copy of the 2016 budget will be ready today for onward transmission to the President for assent. House of Representatives during plenary Recall that the Presidency, last week, said the passed budget would not be assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari because it did not contain the details. But reacting, Chairman, House …

By Alltimepost.com United States Department of Defense announced on Monday the transfer of Salem Abdu Salam Ghereby and Omar Khalif Mohammed Abu Baker Mahjour Umar from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the Government of Senegal. According to Defense officials, as directed by the president’s Jan. 22, 2009 executive order, the interagency Guantanamo Review Task Force conducted a comprehensive …

By Alltimepost.com FORT MEADE, Md. — United States Military dependents and their pets began arriving at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in Maryland on Thursday, following an order to leave by the administration due to security concerns in some areas of Turkey. Dependents arriving at BWI were flown on Air Mobility Command’s C-17 Globemaster III aircraft and various chartered flights …

The Cross River State Universal Basic Education Board has uncovered over 248 fake teachers in nine local government areas of the state. Following the ongoing personal audit of teachers in the state by SUBEB, it was discovered that the bulk of the exposed teachers were in the nine LGAs out of the 18 council areas where the audit of teachers …

The Department of Petroleum Resources, yesterday, said it was working round the clock to bring the fuel scarcity currently witnessed across the country is brought to an end, especially as the supply of the product is expected to improve in the next couple of days. Fuel crisis This was even as some petrol dealers and marketers disclosed that the major …

South African President, Jacob Zuma, has welcomed the court judgement asking him to pay back part of the money spent on upgrading his Nkandla homestead. Zuma said in a televised address to the nation on Friday that he was willing to pay back money spent on non-security related upgrades at the house. The President, in the address, urged “all parties …

In a separate meeting with the Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Geoffery Onyema, Kerry said the US would invest, at least, $600 million in Nigeria in 2016. Kerry, who disclosed this during the opening session of the US-Nigeria Bi-national Commission meeting, reiterated the commitment of the US government to Nigeria’s growth. He said his country had been encouraged by President Muhammadu …

President Muhammadu Buhari said, yesterday, in the United States that he would not sign the 2016 Appropriation Bill, passed into law by the National Assembly, last week, unless he critically reviewed it. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari a meeting on the sidelines of the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit at the Washington Convention Center in …

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, has said the Nigerian Air Force would deploy a maritime aircraft to the South-South region to assist the Nigerian Navy in policing the creeks in Cross River, Rivers and Akwa Ibom states. Abubakar said this on Thursday in Calabar, the capital of Cross River State, during his maiden visit to the …