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Second cohort of Social Innovation Fund Pay for Success project includes Harvard University, LISC, and the University of Utah.   By Alltimepost.com   WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), a United States Federal agency for volunteering and service, on Tuesday announced the winners of its second Social Innovation Fund (SIF) Pay for Success grant competition. …

By Cheryl Pellerin (DoD News) WASHINGTON — Twenty-five years ago, amid the chaos that surrounded the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, two senators, a Republican and a Democrat, established an unlikely program whose goal was to safeguard the crumbling empire’s arsenal of nuclear weapons. At the time, the Soviet Union had tens of thousands of nuclear weapons and enough …

By Alltimepost.com Male citizens of Benin Kingdom have been urged to comply with the age-long tradition of head shaving in honor of their departed King, His Royal Majesty, Oba Erediauwa, as announced by the Iyase of Benin last week. The National President of apex Edo organization in the Diaspora, the Edo National Association Worldwide (ENAW), Elder Franklin Omoruna made the …

President Buhari and the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) gas agreed to grant university education completely free to all prison inmates across the country, if they are interested. In a statement signed by the Director, Media and Publicity of NOUN, Ibrahim Sheme, said the Vice-Chancellor of NOUN, Prof. Abdalla Adamu, announced the largess given to prison inmates. It is …

By Oladipo Airenakhoe Edo State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Sam Olumekun, has called for a second look at the way Nigerians elect their leaders, saying the use of violence during elections was a threat to democracy and national development. At a one-day security meeting with political stakeholders organized by the Edo State Police Command last Thursday, he said Politics will …

By Oladipo Airenakho Edo State Police Commissioner, Mr. Chris Ezike has reached an agreement with political stakeholders in the state to shun the use of violence in the forth-coming governorship election on September 10, 2016. Agreement to this effect was reached at a one day security meeting convened by the State Police Command in Benin City, Edo State last Thursday. …

The Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, Most Rev. Paulinus Ezeokafor, has decried the poor state of prisons in the country, saying such facilities in a 21st Century must have a human face. Ezeokafor wondered why most prisons were located in areas that had no room for expansion. The bishop contended that if prisons were meant to reform inmates, both workers …

Nigeria’s quest for increased crude oil production and reserves is on the verge of being achieved with the commencement of oil exploration in offshore Lagos, at the Aje field located in Oil Mining Lease 113. Though the actual quantity of current production was not stated, it is expected that production from the well would contribute to Nigeria’s attainment of four …

ABUJA—President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday signed the 2016 Appropriation Bill into law. The President signed the delayed 2016 budget at the Presidential Villa with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara and Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun among others as witnesses. The record 6.06 trillion budget is expected …

The Federal Government has ruled out the possibility of full implementation of the 2016 Appropriation Act signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday. The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, stated this while briefing journalists shortly after Buhari signed the budget at the President Villa, Abuja. Udoma was joined at the briefing by the Minister …