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By Alltmepost.com, with report from DOD News. About 10,800 men are sexually assaulted every year in the United States Military, said Russell Strand, a retired Criminal Investigative Service special agent at the Army’s Sexual Harassment/Assault Response Program Summit last Thursday in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia. Strand who co-spoke with Jim Hopper, a psychologist and researcher about an aspect of sexual violence …

Benin – By Ola Airenakho Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has tasked the state Oil and Gas Producing Areas Development Commission (EDSOGPADEC) to spend 80% of its resources on the provision of lasting infrastructure. He gave the charge on Thursday at the inauguration of the Board of the Commission at the Government House, Benin City. According to him, government …

THE National Assembly, yesterday, completed the amendment of the 1999 Constitution with approval of life pension for anybody who has held office as President or Vice President, Senate President or Deputy Senate President, Speaker or Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives. But beneficiaries of this gesture must be occupants who successfully concluded their terms in office without removal or …

Former Vice President and chieftain of the All progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has called for calm in the face of Tuesday’s bombings which claimed several lives in Borno and Yobe states as well as the explosions and gun attacks at the APC gubernatorial campaign rally in Rivers State that had many people injured. Disclosing this in a statement …

Niger state Governor, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has again expressed his discontentment with the decision of his deputy, Alhaji Ahmed Musa Ibeto to defect to the All Progressives Congress, APC. This was as the Governor on Wednesday by-passed his deputy to appoint Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Barrister Adamu Usman as the Acting Governor while he embarked on …

Some senators on Wednesday in Abuja expressed the desire for Service Chiefs to be summoned to the Senate to brief members on security issues which led to the rescheduling of the general elections. The senators made their desire known in a session with newsmen shortly after the appearance of Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, at …

Benin – By Ola Airenakho Funeral service for fallen humanitarian icon and proprietor of Oronsaye Orphanage home in Benin City, Edo State, Princess Katherine Oronsaye recently drew a lot of sympathy and emotions from the state wing of the League of Veteran Journalists which pleaded for continuity of the facility. “No effort should be spared to ensure that the humanitarian …

The Senate on Wednesday expressed confidence on the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) readiness to conduct free, fair and credible elections. The Senate President, David Mark, disclosed this when the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, briefed the house and demonstrated how the card reader would be used during plenary. Mark, who expressed satisfaction at the demonstration of the card …

Determined to make the federal government comply with court judgment on elections, the All Progressives Congress yesterday wrote a letter to President Goodluck Jonathan and the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega asking him to give heed to the judgment barring the involvement of soldiers in elections. The letter, dated February 16, 201.5 emanated from …

Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, yesterday, described as mere fabrication, allegations by her traducers that she spent N10 billion in leasing jets for her use. The minister, who spoke in an interaction with some senior journalists in Abuja, said she was being framed by her accusers for merely rising up to change the Nigerian oil industry for the benefit of …