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Academy award winner Alex Gibney, known for his deeply insightful documentaries, has delivered a straightforward and engrossing biography of late Afrobeat King, Fela Anikulapo Kuti ,in his latest project, Finding Fela. The documentary film which is billed for cinema release across the country on Friday, October 17, 2014, was screened to a selected audience at Silverbird Cinema, Victoria Island, during …

ABUJA— The National leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has cancelled all endorsements of candidates by the state executive officers. Rising from its National Working Committee, NWC, meeting yesterday, the national leadership of the PDP also warned all the zonal and state executives to jettison the idea of having any anointed candidate ahead of the November 29 Governorship Primary …

Benin, Edo, Nigeria – By Oladipo Airenakho. Five persons have now been arraigned by the Nigeria Police in connection with last Tuesday night brutal attack on Honourable Momoh Abdul-razak, a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Lawmaker, representing Etsako West 1 Constituency in the Edo State House of Assembly. They are Honourable Philip Shaibu, a member of the All Progressive Congress (APC) …

PRESS STATEMENT CONDUCT OF GOVERNORSHIP BYE – ELECTION IN ADAMAWA STATE The Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday, October 8th, 2014, delivered judgment in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/545/2014 between Barrister Bala James Nggilari vs. Speaker Adamawa State House of Assembly & 5 Ors. The Court declared that Barrister Bala James Nggilari did not resign from his office as Deputy Governor of …

Benin, Edo, Nigeria – By Oladipo Airenakho. Edo State branch of Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned in its strongest term what it called the vicious attack, yesterday on Hon. Razaq Momoh, a member of the party’s caucus in the Edo State House of Assembly. Hon Razak who recently decamped from the state ruling All Progressive Congress to …

President Goodluck  Jonathan, Wednesday,  said that his inclusion in list of richest African presidents is baseless and libelous, and demanded a retraction and apology from Richest Lifestyle.com and all those who have published the said article. The President through a statement signed by  Reuben Abati, Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity. Read thus ‘’We have noted with consternation …

The first person to be diagnosed with Ebola within the US has died, Texas hospital officials have said. Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, who caught the virus in his native Liberia, was being treated with an experimental drug in isolation in a Dallas hospital. Earlier the US announced new screening measures at entry points to check travellers for symptoms of the …

Washington D.C.  –  By Alltimepost.com.   Nigeria is the largest recipient of President Barack Obama’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in the world, standing at $458 million annually. Mr. Stephen Swatrz, United States Official from the state Department who represented the U.S. Government at the recent celebration of Nigeria’s 54th independence anniversary in Washington D.C. said last Wednesday. The …

Timelapse video shows the Moon re-appearing from the Earth’s shadow A total lunar eclipse has been visible across much of the Americas and Asia, resulting in a dramatic “Blood Moon”. The eclipse began at 08:00 GMT on the east US coast and was visible in Asia at about 10:00 GMT. During the eclipse – which is the second to occur …

A doctor in Madrid says the Spanish nurse infected with Ebola remembers touching her face with her gloves after treating a dying priest. The nurse, Teresa Romero, is the first person known to have contracted the deadly virus outside West Africa. She treated two Spanish missionaries who died from Ebola earlier this year. Earlier, a World Health Organization adviser warned …