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The Presidency has debunked rumours gaining ground in some online and social media that the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, had been sacked by the Federal Government. A source from the office of the National Security Adviser, NSA, citing security concerns yesterday, warned politicians against spreading falsehood capable of inciting violence to desist from doing …

By Alltimepost.com Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has said the state government will employ all the applicants who scaled the hurdles of a committee set up by the government on the recruitment of teachers. He said this on Tuesday at the state house in Benin, just as the Chairman of the Committee, Professor Dennis Agbonlahor told him that 21,195 …

The National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Ahmed Tinubu, has condemned the decision to postpone the general elections, describing the security concerns given as a cover for the desperation of President Goodluck Jonathan to avoid defeat. Tinubu, in a statement said: “They were postponed because one man, President Jonathan, feared that an election held on February 14 …

Issues of unemployment, insecurity, devaluation of the Naira and epileptic power supply among others, were the dominant issues raised yesterday at the opening ceremony of the 11th Quadrennial delegates conference of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, held in Abuja with labour taking politicians to task on these issues. This came as the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples’ Democratic …

The Islamic State group’s affiliate in Egypt has released video purporting to show the beheading of eight Bedouin men it accused of working for the Egyptian and Israeli armies. The video, posted on the group’s Twitter account late on Monday, also showed what it said were victims of Egyptian military operations in the restive Sinai Peninsula where an insurgency has …

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has urged Nigerians to come out en masse to reject President Goodluck Jonathan and his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the general elections for consistently lying to the nation’s citizens about issues affecting their lives. The Governor, who disclosed this during an All Progressives Congress, APC rally in Alimosho area of the state on …

Saudi Arabia beheaded a convicted Syrian drug smuggler on Tuesday, bringing to 27 the number of executions in the kingdom this year. Authorities carried out the sentence against Abdullah Mohammed al-Ahmad al-Anzi for trafficking amphetamine pills, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. He was executed in northwestern Jawf region. The government says …

A onetime President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said a new federal government must emerge in Nigeria on May 29, this year which will be in line with the country’s constitution. Obasanjo said this yesterday in Nairobi, Kenya while fielding questions from the BBC on the announcement made by INEC on Saturday as regards the postponement of the 2015 …

President Goodluck Jonathan has counselled Nigerians to speak good about the country, stressing that the general election is a contest among brothers and sisters. On his official Facebook page, which boast of almost two million followers, President Jonathan said: “I want to remind us all that we have no other country other than Nigeria and as we approach the elections, …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has further extended the deadline for collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) until March 8, 2015. This is contained in a statement signed by the Secretary to the Commission, Mrs Augusta Ogakwu in Abuja on Monday. The statement quoted Ogakwu as saying the four weeks extension of the deadline followed the rescheduling of the …