By Jim Garamone DoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON – The battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is not a U.S. war, it is a large international effort to defeat a crazed and barbaric ideology, Pentagon press secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said here on Tuesday. ISIL burned a captured Jordanian pilot alive in January. …
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The presidency, Monday received from the Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) the forensic report on the alleged unremitted oil revenue by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to the Federation Account. In a ceremony witnessed by the Auditor General of the Federation, Mr. Samuel Ukura, President Goodluck Jonathan, who received the report from the firm’s Country Senior Partner, Mr. Uyi Akpata, said …
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A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday ordered the service of court documents on the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Mohammadu Buhari, in relation to a suit seeking to among others, restrain him from participating in the February 14 election. Justice Adeniyi Ademola ordered a substituted service of the court documents on Buhari and the …
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THE Independent National Electoral Commission ‘INEC, has extended the deadline for collection of Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs. This comes as the federal government, state commissioners of education and stakeholders in the education sector are meeting today to deliberate on whether or not to close public and private schools during the election. With the extension, registered voters who are yet to …
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THE Rivers State High Court at Degema, Degema Local Government Area, was engulfed by fire in the early hours of today. Eyewitnesses said the fire started at about 4.00 am, but the cause of the inferno could not be ascertained. Almost all parts of the building were destroyed in the fire, which started barely 48 hours after the directive from …
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A group called Igbos in Diaspora Initiative for Buhari, IDIB, a pro -Buhari group on Sunday voiced out their disapprovalof the endorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan for re-election in the upcoming polls by the Ohaneze Ndigbo group. The Coordinator of IDIB, Mazi David Nonso Ifeanyi Ezedinma, disclosed this in an interview with Daily Trust on Sunday, where he said the …
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The ongoing war of words between the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo and the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has taken a new dimension as he has launched another attack on the minister, challenging her to give account of the N30tn reportedly stolen under her watch. Soludo was reacting to Okonjo-Iweala’s earlier article …
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By Alltimepost.com SOUTHWEST ASIA – U.S. and coalition military forces have continued to attack Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in Syria and Iraq, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported today. Officials reported details of the latest strikes, which took place between 8 a.m. yesterday and 8 a.m. today, local time, noting that assessments of …
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The campaign rally of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha yesterday witnessed a strange turn as the crowd who had gathered cheered Governor Rochas Okorocha instead of the PDP candidate. Ihedioha’s campaign train with a long motorcade, which momentarily paralysed economic activities in the ever busy …
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The of governorship candidate of the PDP in Lagos State, Mr Jimi Agbaje, on Saturday promised to make Badagry the industrial hub of West Africa. Agbaje, who said this at a rally in Badagry, lamented that the axis has been short-changed in terms of development. “I observed that Badagry has been shortchanged over the years in Lagos state. ” I …
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