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http://ift.tt/2ponT6h APC The Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC) announced on Sunday that the All Progressive Congress (APC), had won all the 23 local government chairmanship seats in the elections held on Saturday. It also announced that the party won all the councillorship positions, with some of the candidates returned unopposed. BSIEC chairman John Tsuwa who declared the results in Makurdi, however, declined to release details of votes scored by the candidates. “The figures are not ready. I will not entertain questions because this is not a press conference,,” he told curious newsmen. Tsuwa said that eight political parties participated in the exercise and listed them to include Accord Party, APC, PDP, SDP, ACB, PPP, LP and NNPP. He thanked security agencies for ensuring a smooth conduct of the elections, and expressed happiness that no case of violence or snatching of ballot box was reported throughout the exercise. Vía Nigeria News, Headlines and ...

http://ift.tt/2ponT6h APC The Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC) announced on Sunday that the All Progressive Congress (APC), had won all the 23 local government chairmanship seats in the elections held on Saturday. It also announced that the party won all the councillorship positions, with some of the candidates returned unopposed. BSIEC chairman John Tsuwa who declared the results in Makurdi, however, declined to release details of votes scored by the candidates. “The figures are not ready. I will not entertain questions because this is not a press conference,,” he told curious newsmen. Tsuwa said that eight political parties participated in the exercise and listed them to include Accord Party, APC, PDP, SDP, ACB, PPP, LP and NNPP. He thanked security agencies for ensuring a smooth conduct of the elections, and expressed happiness that no case of violence or snatching of ballot box was reported throughout the exercise. Vía Nigeria News, Headlines and ...

http://ift.tt/2qRBX7R US Pentagon chief Jim Mattis delivers his speech during the first plenary session at the 16th Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), ShangriLa Dialogue Summit in Singapore on June 3, 2017. The annual Shangri-La Dialogue is attended by defence ministers from around the region and runs from June 2 to 4.ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP Pentagon chief Jim Mattis moved to reassure Asian allies Saturday that the United States can work with China on reining in North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme without compromising its opposition to Beijing’s continued “militarisation” of the South China Sea. President Donald Trump — who frequently denounced China on the campaign trail — has turned to Beijing to help pressure Pyongyang, prompting broad concerns that America will go easy on China’s maritime activities. Longstanding partners are also mortified that Trump has seemed indifferent to traditional alliances, and have interpreted his pulling out of a trans-Pacific trade deal and t...

http://ift.tt/2rmKwuW Rockfans breakfast at the campsite of the Rock am Ring music festival in Nuerburg, southwestern Germany, on June 3, 2017.Germany’s biggest rock festival will resume after being disrupted by fears of a possible “terrorist threat” which have proved to be unfounded, the organisers said on Saturday, June 3, 2017.Thomas Frey / dpa / AFP Germany’s biggest rock festival will resume after being disrupted by fears of a possible “terrorist threat” which have proved to be unfounded, the organisers said Saturday. Police told AFP searches at the three-day “Rock am Ring,” held near the southwestern city of Koblenz were over. Live music will resume at 1:30 pm (1130 GMT). Some 90,000 people are expected to attend the event which ends on Sunday. “After a series of intensive searches across the site the fears of an imminent danger were not confirmed,” the organisers said. “The police gave the go-ahead” for the festival to restart, they said. The festival was evacuated...

http://ift.tt/2qRBX7R US Pentagon chief Jim Mattis delivers his speech during the first plenary session at the 16th Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), ShangriLa Dialogue Summit in Singapore on June 3, 2017. The annual Shangri-La Dialogue is attended by defence ministers from around the region and runs from June 2 to 4.ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP Pentagon chief Jim Mattis moved to reassure Asian allies Saturday that the United States can work with China on reining in North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme without compromising its opposition to Beijing’s continued “militarisation” of the South China Sea. President Donald Trump — who frequently denounced China on the campaign trail — has turned to Beijing to help pressure Pyongyang, prompting broad concerns that America will go easy on China’s maritime activities. Longstanding partners are also mortified that Trump has seemed indifferent to traditional alliances, and have interpreted his pulling out of a trans-Pacific trade deal and t...

http://ift.tt/2rmKwuW Rockfans breakfast at the campsite of the Rock am Ring music festival in Nuerburg, southwestern Germany, on June 3, 2017.Germany's biggest rock festival will resume after being disrupted by fears of a possible "terrorist threat" which have proved to be unfounded, the organisers said on Saturday, June 3, 2017.Thomas Frey / dpa / AFP Germany’s biggest rock festival will resume after being disrupted by fears of a possible “terrorist threat” which have proved to be unfounded, the organisers said Saturday. Police told AFP searches at the three-day “Rock am Ring,” held near the southwestern city of Koblenz were over. Live music will resume at 1:30 pm (1130 GMT). Some 90,000 people are expected to attend the event which ends on Sunday. “After a series of intensive searches across the site the fears of an imminent danger were not confirmed,” the organisers said. “The police gave the go-ahead” for the festival to restart, they said. The festival...