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The Republic of Ireland has indicated its preparedness to partner Nigeria, using Cross River State as the pilot state, to ensure it attains socio-economic and infrastructural development. Irish Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Sean Hoy, disclosed this while on a courtesy call to the Governor of Cross River State, Ben Ayade. The Irish government believes this will help address the problem …

By Alltimepost.com Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has signed the state’s N116.6 billion 2016 Appropriation Bill into law. Oshiomhole said shortly after assenting to the Bill at the State House in Benin City on Tuesday, that the 2015 budget performed optimally in all sectors. It was the 8th times that the Governor signed such bills since his assumption of …

By Kingsley Abavo Several farmers of Orhua Community in Uhunmwode Local Government Council Area, Edo State are searching for answers to their recent misfortune occasioned by a devastating fire in which they allegedly lost millions of naira worth of food crops. The affected people are those whose only source of livelihood is farming. Alltimepost.com correspondent saw a hopeless situation among …

Former Governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, was, on Tuesday, sworn in as the new substantive national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), beating back strong opposition from some members of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT). He was sworn in after a meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party, which voted for him …

President Barack Obama has urged the US Senate to act after he nominates a replacement on the Supreme Court for Justice Antonin Scalia. “I expect them to do their job”, he said, and consider the candidate as required by the US Constitution. Scalia, a long-time conservative on the court, died on Saturday. Within hours leaders of the Republican-controlled Senate had …

President Barack Obama called Tuesday for a halt to any new construction or militarization of Asia’s oceans and reaffirmed the U.S. right to operate freely in international areas. Speaking at the close of a meeting with Southeast Asian leaders in California, Obama pressed for a “halt to reclamation, new construction and militarization” of Asia’s oceans, an indirect reference to China’s …

ABUJA—Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, yesterday, said the Senate would strive to pass the 2016 budget before the end of March. Mohammed Ndume This came on a day the House of Representatives Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Abdulrazak Namdas, said submission of the 2016 budget on February 25 might still be realisable. The Senate Leader said March was the deadline …

By Alltimepost.com United States Departments of Commerce and the Treasury have announced the second round of the U.S.-Cuba Regulatory Dialogue, taking place in Washington, D.C. from February 17 to 18, 2016. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker will open the Dialogue with Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca. For the remainder of the Dialogue, experts from the …

By Alltimepost.com WASHINGTON — United States Defense Department sent Congress its 2015 report on North Korea’s military power last Thursday, Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters. The report, “Military and Security Developments Involving the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” was originally mandated in 2012 to inform Congress and the public of DoD’s analytical assessment of North Korea’s activities …

Senators and members of the House of Representatives have rejected a plan to withdraw the troubled National Budget from their custody. The budget had run into troubled waters shortly after it was presented by President Muhammadu Buhari on December 22, 2015, with stories of doctoring, padding and injection of foreign contents doing the round at venues of budget defence at …