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The South African Asset Forfeiture Unit of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has seized another $5.7 million for yet another arms deal between South Africa and Nigeria. This is the second multimillion-naira arms deal between the two countries in the past month that has resulted in the money being frozen in South African banks. Last month, $9.3million in $100 bills stashed …

Benin, Edo, Nigeria – By Oladipo Airenakho. Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has said that his administration was poised to use the remaining period of his tenure to attract both local and foreign investors to the State with the newly created Ministry of Investment, Public and Private Partnership. The Governor made this known recently in Benin while swearing in …

Washington D.C. – By Alltimepost.com. Nigeria has been described as a nation united in diversity, where everyone will be able to realize his or her potentials. Nigeria’s Deputy Defense Attaché in the United States of America, Colonel Julius Ehioze Osifo made this assertion in his introductory remarks at the celebration of the country’s 54th years of nationhood which took place …

Washington D.C. – By Alltimepost.com. Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States, Prof. Ade Adefunye last Wednesday assured that the challenges facing his country would soon be overcome by the collective determination and goodwill of the Nigerian people. Prof Adefunye who spoke at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington D.C. as a host during the celebration of Nigeria’s 54th years of nationhood advised …

There was confusion, yesterday, over the alleged beheading, by Boko Haram, of an air force pilot whose fighter jet went missing three weeks ago. The military dismissed the claim that a man beheaded in Boko Haram’s latest video was the pilot. A group which identified as Nigerian Army Support Group, however, confirmed the death of the pilot – a wing …

At least eight persons travelling for the Eid- El- Kabir  celebration lost their lives in an auto crash along Akure/Owo expressway, in Ondo State of Nigeria. Three others sustained various degrees of injuries in the crash which occurred on Friday evening. Sunday Vanguard gathered that the deceased were travelling in a Toyota Sienna vehicle marked  Anambra ABN 214, which was  …

Pope Francis and more than 200 senior bishops are meeting at the Vatican to discuss some of the most controversial issues affecting the Catholic Church. They will be joined by lay Catholics to debate abortion, contraception, homosexuality and divorce. The extraordinary synod lasts two weeks and a follow-up meeting will be held next year. Pope Francis said on Saturday that …

Jean-Claude Duvalier was a controversial figure. Haiti’s former ruler Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier has died of a heart attack in the capital Port-au-Prince aged 63, official sources say. Duvalier was just 19 when in 1971 he inherited the title of “president-for-life” from his father, the notorious Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier. He was accused of corruption, human rights abuses and repression …

President Goodluck Jonathan Today, Wednesday led former Heads of State, the leadership of the National Assembly, the judiciary and other top government officials to celebrate the country’s 54th independence anniversary. The event, which was held at the forecourt of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, featured the Presidential Change of Guards Parade, a military affair. The parade was performed by men of the 177 Battalion, Presidential Guards Brigade, Keffi, …

2014 Independence Day Broadcast by His Excellency, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR Wednesday 1st October, 2014 Fellow Nigerians: 1.             Today marks the 54th anniversary of our country’s independence as a sovereign nation.  This is also the tenth month of our journey into a new century, having marked the centenary of our nation in January this year. 2.             The first one …