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By Steve Marshall – National Guard Bureau ARLINGTON, Va., — As much of the East Coast hunkered down today in the midst of a ferocious winter storm, National Guard citizen-soldiers and citizen-airmen were poised to assist local and state emergency agencies. National Guard Bureau officials said more than 2,200 National Guard personnel from 12 states are supporting state and local …

WASHINGTON — China as a rising power is a major factor in Asia and the South China Sea that’s welcomed by the United States in almost every way, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, yesterday. The secretary spoke in the forum’s global security panel with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Afghan President Ashraf …

By Alltimepost.com Governor Adams Oshiomhole has used the visit of Edo State Executive of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) to demand the prosecution of a Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Anthony Anenih who was recently caught in the web of 2.1b dollars Dasuki arms scandal. Oshiomhole, in his characteristic manner of scolding those considered to be …

It was only my journalistic instinct that led me to some prison officials to find out if indeed all the condemned convicts, about 16 of them, at Gombe Central Prison were recently moved to Jos prison to await their date with the hangman. Jos is the only prison in Northern Nigeria that has execution gallows apart from Kaduna’s. This is …

The Senate on Tuesday adopted President Muhammadu Buhari’s request asking it to discard the original budget proposals he presented to the Joint Session of the National Assembly on December 22, 2015 and work with a corrected version of the bill, after two weeks of controversy. The development followed the Upper Chamber’s adoption and approval of a letter from Buhari, read …

By Alltimepost.com Nigeria’s President, Retired Major-General Muhammadu Buhari and Northern leaders have been chastised for allegedly turning the remembrance of the assassination of the late Sarduana of Sokoto, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello into a rallying point for ethnic and sectional divide instead of a forum for National unity. The actions of the president and northern leaders in this regard have …

By Alltimepost.com Edo state government pensioners of 2010 and 2011 now have cause to smile as Governor Adams Oshiomhole, on Monday presented checks to them in payment of their gratuities at a meeting in Benin City. This followed the recent biometric verification of the pensioners by the state government. The Governor said in spite of the lean resources accruing to …

Alltimepost.com – Live Update Here The British parliament is set to debate today whether to ban U.S. Republican frontrunner Donald Trump from entering the UK. The debate comes after 570,000 people signed an online petition calling for Mr Trump to be refused entry after he called for a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the United States. Breitbart London reported …

Attacks on oil installations in Delta State entered the third day, yesterday, as militants blew-up major crude oil and gas pipelines to the Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, Tank Farm in Warri South West Local Government Area of the state. Blown up on Friday night was the main crude line from Makaraba through Otunana and Abiteye to Escravos while Olero to …

President of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Mr. Chinedu Okonkwo, has called on the Federal Government to refurbish the country’s old refineries to increase production output and quality. The association also denied allegations that it wanted President Muhammadu Buhari to sell off existing refineries as scrap. Speaking in an interview, Okonkwo stated that instead of calling on the Federal …