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BENIN—FIVE police officers were arrested Saturday in Benin, following their alleged attempt to shield some suspected cultists from arrest. This came as the crack team of detectives sent by the Inspector-General, Solomon Arase, to Edo State over the cult war in the state looked set to prosecute 11 kingpins of different cult groups, including a medical doctor, an engineer and …

President Goodluck Jonathan has signed the 2015 Appropriation Bill into law, Investigation by our correspondent on Monday revealed that Jonathan decided to sign the budget into law a couple of days back without fanfare. As of the time of filing this report, it could not be confirmed why the President had kept the development away from public knowledge. The Senate had …

A two-day conference where the policy direction of the incoming government of the General Mohamadu Buhari would be unveiled is due in Abuja on Wednesday and Thursday, All a Progress Congress, APC said on Monday. Themed “Implementing Change: From Vision to Reality”, the dialogue is a brainchild of the Policy, Research and Strategy Directorate of the APC Presidential Campaign Council. …

The crisis rocking the Nigeria Governors Forum was on Monday night resolved following the adoption of Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, as the Chairman of the forum. Amaechi had won the last NGF election with 19 votes to defeat his main challenger, Plateau State governor, Jonah Jang, who had 16 votes. The forum was thrown into crisis when the 16 …

LAGOS — The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, and the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, branch of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Corporation, NPDC, yesterday shut down exploration activities in the country over the failure to reverse the alleged transfer of the operatorship of Oil Mining Lease, OML 42. The unions had …

A former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, says the Igbo did not vote for the Peoples Democratic Party in the last general election in the South-East, maintaining that the PDP massively rigged the election in the region. Kalu, who was an ardent supporter of President Goodluck Jonathan before the elections, said this during a programme on Channels TV …

ABUJA — Effective May 29, when he is inaugurated as President of the country, the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will drop his military rank of General from his official designation This was confirmed in a statement by his media office, yesterday which also released the official portrait of the President-elect and that of the Vice-President elect, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. …

The Peoples Democratic Party has said that it is not contemplating a change of identity, noting that the vision of its founding fathers remains timeless. The party also said it was open to merging with other political parties and associations that shared its ideals. The party insisted that it was still a national political party with the strength and spread …

The ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accepted responsibility ‘for all that has gone wrong and bad in the last 16 years’ in the country. This is according to a tweet by the verified Twitter handle of the party, @pdpnigeria. The party which pleaded for the ‘genuine and sincere advice’ from Nigerians on the best way to reform the once-dominant …

By Alltimepost.com KATHMANDU, Nepal – Joint Task Force 505 officials today identified the six U.S. Marines who were killed along with two Nepalese soldiers when their UH-1Y Huey helicopter went down in the mountains of Nepal May 12. The fallen Marines are: Capt. Dustin R. Lukasiewicz, a UH-1Y pilot with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 469, Marine Aircraft Group 39, …