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By Alltimepost.com Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has been challenged to question the Federal Government on the incessant theft of the nation’s crude oil and how the crime is being committed on a daily basis without check. In his speech at the ground-breaking ceremony of the Labour House in Benin City, Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole said Nigeria was being …

Taciturn former Head of State who permitted the return of democracy to Nigeria in 1999, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, has called for a change in the way the nation is governed, stressing that Nigeria is currently at the crossroad with no idea as to which direction to turn. Addressing Nigerians in a statement issued by him and published by some national …

Nine serving Senators of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, defected to All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Labour Party, LP. While some of the Senators left PDP after they lost at the primaries, the opposition parties had willingly accepted them and gave them the ticket to run. One of them is Senator Atiku Bagudu Abubakar, representing Kebbi Central, who joined …

The minority leader at the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Tanko Adamu Maikatako has concluded plans to stop his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, from presenting any candidate for Lafia Central Constituency in the February 28 House of Assembly election in the state. The lawmaker is currently representing the constituency. According to Maikatako, the APC imposed a candidate on …

Italy’s veteran President Giorgio Napolitano was expected to resign Wednesday, setting the stage for the election of a new head of state, a thorny process which could prove a political headache for Matteo Renzi’s government. The 89-year old had announced in December that he would be leaving office, well before the expiry of his term in 2020, because of his …

Nigerians have been called upon to avoid resorting to violence in the event that their choice candidates do not win the next month’s general elections. This call was made by a former General Secretary of the United Nations, UN, Mr. Kofi Annan while addressing a coalition of over 60 civil society organizations in Abuja today on their role in ensuring …

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftains and some members across Ondo State yesterday defected to the opposition All Progressives Congress APC citing the need for a change from broken promises and future as their reasons. Leading them was the younger brother of the immediate governor, late Dr Olusegun Agagu, Femi and a former Commissioner in the Federal Civil Service Commission, Hon. …

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, publicly disagreed with President Goodluck Jonathan over the statement that his generation has failed Nigeria, saying, “You (Jonathan) failed Nigeria because my generation did not fail this country.” President Jonathan made the statement last Thursday while addressing youths at the flag-off of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP campaign held at the Tafawa Balewa …

Suspected members of the dreaded Boko Haram this morning launched an attack on a military checkpoint near the Army Barracks in Biu Local Government Area of Borno state. Biu is the second largest council area in Borno State and is about 185 kilometres south of Maiduguri. Residents and sources said, the insurgents. came through the Garkida-Yimirshika-Biu road and attempted to …

By Alltimepost.com Edo State Government has terminated an agreement to train medical students of the Igbinedion University, Okada, at its specialist hospitals over alleged unpaid debts totaling N350 million. The State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Louis Odion, at a press briefing yesterday said the University had not paid anything to the Government since the agreement was signed on September 1, …