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The Ali Modu Sheriff-faction of the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party is to appear before a Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday (today) to argue its application for an interlocutory injunction seeking to stop the party from going ahead with its planned national convention scheduled to hold on August 17. The nine plaintiffs said they filed the …

By Alltimepost.com Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State says his administration has created a conducive environment for investments to thrive, explaining that the $1 billion Azura Power Project will make the state the hub of power generation in the country. Oshiomhole who made this known when the United States Consul-General in Nigeria, Mr. F. John Bray, visited him on Tuesday, …

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed delight that train services were back in Nigeria as was the case in the 80s. The President, who spoke while commissioning Abuja-Kaduna rail track, which also coincided with the flagging off of Abuja-Kaduna at Idu Industrial layout, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, yesterday, said the project would impact on the lives of Abuja residents as well …

By Cheryl Pellerin – DoD News WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Ash Carter Tuesday rolled out the department’s second innovation hub, a new office in Boston that joins the technology outpost that he opened last year in Silicon Valley, California. The secretary has championed Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, or DIUx, as one of the ways the Pentagon is investing in innovation …

By Alltimepost.com Oghara, Delta State – Citizens of Okurho in Delta State have cried out to the Federal Government of Nigeria to have the Nigerian Navy vacate their lands, alleged to have been illegally acquired by the Command. The lands, which according to the community measure about 600 x 600 were “illegally annexed, and forcefully acquired from the original owners.” …

Bernie Sanders may propose Hillary Clinton’s nomination Tuesday evening, as part of a last-minute deal being hammered out by the two camps as they seek party unity amid a chaotic convention in Philadelphia. The Sanders campaign is asking the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign to allow Vermont to formally call for her nomination — a symbolic gesture that …

Following the official flag-off ceremony for commercial operations of the 185km Abuja-Kaduna standard gauge rail project, on Tuesday, in Abuja, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari, saying “We are excited that President Muhammadu Buhari has commissioned our project.” The PDP which took to its verified Twitter handle @PdpNigeria to hail President Buhari said: “We congratulate …

Residents of Oghara community in Delta State on Tuesday, barricaded the Benin-Warri section of the East-West road over an alleged illegal acquisition of a large portion of land belonging to the community by authorities of the Nigerian Navy Logistics Command Oghara, Delta State. The protest which lasted for several hours created heavy gridlock until the men of the Nigeria Police …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called for the merging of government’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as part of efforts to curb wastage in government. Obasanjo made the call on Tuesday in Abeokuta while addressing members of the Joint Tax Board who paid him a courtesy call at his Hilltop residence. The former president said that government needed to block …

Michelle Obama cast the presidential race as one between a positive role model for children — in Hillary Clinton — and a damaging one — in Donald Trump — in the marquee speech on the Democratic National Convention’s opening night. The first lady never mentioned Trump by name, but leveraging her popularity, she made a rare, if not unprecedented, foray …