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President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade appears to have taken off in earnest barely a week after assuming office with a stern warning to ministers not to dabble into approving payments for contractors. The government came boldly with a clear policy directive asking only the heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs not to abdicate their core functions to ministers who …

After three weeks of consultations with international and Nigeria’s political leaders, President Muhammadu Buhari appears set to effect major changes in the administration of the country in a bid to translate the ‘change’ mantra of his party into reality. To start with, the President is said to have accepted the recommendation of the transition committee he raised a few weeks …

THE lawmaker representing Bayelsa East Senatorial District, Senator Ben Murray Bruce, has promised to donate his wardrobe allowance to the unpaid workers in Osun State. He made this known via his Twitter handle. For about seven months now, workers in the Osun State civil service are yet to be paid their salaries. But in a swift reaction, the Osun State …

By Alltimepost.com. WASHINGTON – United States and Spanish officials on Wednesday signed an amendment to the nations’ defense agreement that will change the deployment of the U.S. crisis response force at Moron Air Base from temporary to permanent, defense officials said on Thursday. In the State Department’s Treaty Room, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, Tony Blinken and Spanish Deputy Foreign …

Some members of the All Progressives Congress in the senate under the aegis of “The like minds senators”, on Wednesday, assured Nigerians that the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, will work towards the success of the anti – corruption crusade of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. The senators through a statement by their Coordinator, Dino Melaye, also pledged that Saraki would not …

GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State has emerged the Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Governors’ Forum, PDPGF, an umbrelal body of governors elected on the platform of the PDP. Immediately after his election, Mimiko vowed to engage President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC in a very constructive manner. Governor Mimiko was elected Chairman of the Forum …

As President Muhammadu Buhari settles down to work, the Presidency has called for the Bank Account Balances of all federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs. The directive to all Chief Executive Officers and Accounting Officers of MDAs was contained in a circular Ref No: TRY A4 & B4/2015 /OAGF/CAD/026/V .1/254 and dated 1 June, 2015. It was issued by former …

The National Industrial Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State, has restrained the Edo State Governor, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice and the Judicial Service Commission from terminating the appointment of members of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria over their five-month industrial action, pending the determination of the Motion on Notice. The court also restrained the Attorney General …

An Egyptian court has upheld the death sentence imposed on ousted ex-President Mohammed Morsi over a mass jailbreak. The sentence was initially passed in May, but was confirmed after consultation with Egypt’s highest religious figure, the Grand Mufti. The death sentences of five other leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including its supreme guide Mohammed Badie, were also upheld. Morsi’s …

President Muhammadu Buhari explained, yesterday, that he was yet to appoint his ministers because his predecessor’s transition committee submitted its report on the previous administration to him late. Buhari, who spoke to newsmen at the Summit of the African Union in Johannesburg, South Africa, said he was being careful in order not to make mistakes in appointing individuals especially to …