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As controversy continues to trail the academic qualifications of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Major General Mohammadu Buhari, the Army, yesterday, said it was not in possession of Buhari’s credentials. The APC presidential candidate, Major General Buhari had averred in an affidavit he deposed before an Abuja High Court that all his certificates were with the …

(CNN)As Prepared for Delivery There is a ritual on State of the Union night in Washington. A little before the address, the White House sends out an embargoed copy of the President’s speech to the press (embargoed means that the press can see the speech, but they can’t report on it until a designated time). The reporters then start sending …

The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega has said that the penchant by the Nigerian politicians to cut corners at the expense of the acceptable convention posed a major impediment to free and fair election in the country. Jega spoke at the Bayero University, Kano, BUK, yesterday, saying also that Nigerian politicians were ‘’too difficult to handle.’’ …

The Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Sa’ad Abubakar III, has expressed fears that unless something was done urgently, millions of Nigerians, including himself, would be disenfranchised as they were not able to collect their Permanent Voters’ Cards, PVCs. Abubakar spoke in Sokoto when he received President Goodluck Jonathna, who was in the state for a political rally in his palace. …

The Deputy Governor of Niger State, Ahmed Musa Ibeto, has dumped his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, for the All Progressives Congress, the Eagleonline reports. Before his defection, Ibeto contested the PDP governorship ticket in the state, but lost because his boss, Governor Babangida Aliyu, did not back his candidacy. Ahmed Nasko is currently the party’s governorship candidate in the …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Federal Government of making a show out of deceit by its so-called fuel price reduction, saying a 10.3 per cent slash in the price of petrol (from 97 to 87 Naira) is a mere tokenism at a time the price of crude oil has crashed by about 60 per cent. In a …

ALL chicken markets in Lagos State and environs have been placed on red alert even as veterinary institutions have stepped up surveillance to contain the avian influenza (bird flu) outbreak reported last week in two poultries in Lagos and Kano states. Nigeria was the first country in Africa to report H5N1 in poultry in 2006, according to the World Health …

The Federal Government, Sunday night reduced the pump price of petrol to N87/litre. Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madukwe while announcing the reduction said, the new pump price will take effect from 12:00am on Monday. Details soon…

In what may appeared as a dramatic volte face, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola has said that the Lagos State All Progressives Congress, APC governorship candidate, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has always been his choice of candidate all through the build up to the APC governorship primaries held over a month ago. Fashola stated this during a media parley …

By Alltimepost.com Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has raised an alarm over an alleged plot by rival People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to use a section of students of the University of Benin to foment trouble in the state and create chaos which may lead to loss of lives. He therefore urged parents to prevail on their children at the …