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Jeb Bush’s top adviser, Sally Bradshaw, has left the Republican Party to become an independent, and says if the presidential race in Florida is close, she’ll vote for Hillary Clinton. Bradshaw, who’s been close to the former Florida governor for decades and was senior adviser to his 2016 campaign, officially switched her registration to unaffiliated. She told CNN’s Jamie Gangel …

The United States has carried out air strikes on positions of so-called Islamic State (IS) in Libya, following a request by the UN-backed government there, the Pentagon says. The strikes targeted positions in the port city of Sirte, an IS stronghold. Libyan PM Fayez Sarraj, in a televised address, said the strikes caused “heavy losses”. Western powers have become increasingly …

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a 13-member Governing Council and 10-member Board of Trustees (BOT), for the cleanup of Ogoniland in Rivers. The Minister of Environment, Mrs Amina Mohammed, announced this in statement, by Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr Bukar Hassan, in Abuja on Saturday. The minister said the structures would ensure inclusiveness, accountability, transparency and sustainability of the …

Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo says he is contemplating to reduce five to three working days per week for civil/public servants in the State. Okorocha announced this while briefing journalists on the state of affairs in Imo at his residence in Owerri on Friday. He said the reduction of the working days would enable workers to attend to other activities …

By Jim Garamone – DoD News WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary, Ash Carter on Wednesday told troops readying to deploy to Iraq that they must build on the momentum to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The secretary addressed service members set to deploy with the XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The unit will replace …

Hillary Clinton beamed with emotion as she took the convention stage to become the first woman ever to accept a major U.S. party’s presidential nomination. “It is with humility, determination and boundless confidence in America’s promise that I accept your nomination for President of the United States,” Clinton said to thunderous applause at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Clinton …

Governor Adams Oshiomhole has taken a swipe at the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu for claiming that he made him (Oshiomhole) the Governor, saying Ize Iyamu did not even vote for him so he couldn’t have made him Governor. Speaking at a rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Garrick Memorial College, …

US President Barack Obama has delivered a stirring speech at the Democratic convention, hailing Hillary Clinton as his political heir and rounding on “home-grown demagogue” Donald Trump. “There has never been a man or woman, not me, not Bill, nobody more qualified than Hillary” to be president, he said. When boos rang out at the name of the Republican candidate, …

The leadership crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, deepened on Thursday, as the Federal High Court in Abuja, sacked the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led Caretaker Committee of the party. The court, in a ruling by Justice Okon Abang, held that every action the Committee has taken since it emerged through a convention the party purportedly held in Port Harcourt on …

By Oladipo Airenakho Benin City – For a mother, knowing that she is on the verge of losing a son due to inability to procure medical treatment for his illness is the most painful, dreadful, emotional and psychologically devastating experience. Such is the situation with Mrs. Charity Atoi, a Benin-based street trader and mother of four-year old boy, Testimony Atoi, …