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http://ift.tt/2scgBHC US Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke (L) and US Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao (C) watch US President Donald Trump speaks wave during his visit to the US Department of Transportation June 9, 2017 in Washington, DC. Trump visit of the Transportation Department is part of a White House push to overhaul America's infrastructure. Brendan Smialowski / AFP US President Donald Trump punched back Friday against James Comey and his dramatic Capitol Hill testimony, claiming “complete vindication” and slamming the ousted FBI director for leaking documents about their private conversations. In his first response to Comey’s blunt remarks, Trump offered a window into how the White House may try to contain the controversy that has dogged his administration for months — accusations that his campaign team colluded with Moscow to tilt the 2016 election in his favor. The Republican leader zeroed in on Comey’s confirmation that he personally was not under invest...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs has concluded arrangements to terminate about six abandoned projects spread across the region with a view to enhance the development of the region. The Minister, Pastor Uguru Usani had made this known while receiving the report on the audit and review of the East-west road and other project of its Ministry in Abuja. Usani said that following the report from the Ministerial Technical Audit Committee on the contracts awarded from 2009 – 2015 in the Niger Delta, that some projects have been proposed for termination. He listed the projects to include construction of OkpuhutaMbano Junction – Orie market –Lomara- Igwebulka (35km) – Abia State; Land reclamation and Erosion control project at OguduAbia Phase I, Abia State. Others are Idoro-Eastern Itam Water Supply Scheme Akwa Ibom; Construction of Mbak Atai-Ikot Ntu-MkpetiOkuiboku road project (13.86km) Akwa Ibom State; Ukparam Water Supply Scheme and Construction and Supervision o...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Mr Sam Nda-Isaiah, the Chairman Leadership Group says indigenous language newspapers do not do well in Nigeria because of limited circulation and the lack of advertisements to sustain them. Nda-Isaiah whose company publishes Hausa language newspaper, “Leadership Hausa’’ stated this on Monday in Kaduna at a Two-Day Annual Round Table on Cultural Orientation. The event jointly organised by the National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO) and the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture has the theme: “the Indigenous Language Newspapers and National Development’’. Newsmen report the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed declared the event opened. The publisher said that indigenous language newspapers have had very low shelf life because the publishers, in most cases, established them for the sole purposes of educating and informing the people and in many cases to advance their political aspirations. He stressed that indigenous newspap...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J With the World Health Organisation declaring an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has reassured passengers and airport users of safety at Nigerian airports. FAAN gave the assurance in a statement signed by its Acting General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Mrs Henrietta Yakubu in Lagos on Monday. Yakubu said that adequate measures had been put in place to checkmate the recurrence of any such outbreak in Nigeria. She emphasised that all measures adopted in 2014 to curtail the dreaded virus were very much in place and had been fortified. According to her, the Ebola Screening Points and detecting machines have been fully reinstated at the airports. Yakubu said FAAN was also collaborating with the Federal Ministry of Health, through the Port Health Service, to reactivate the Ebola Awareness and Sensitisation Campaign. While stating emphatically that there was no outbreak of Ebola in Nigeria or at any...

http://ift.tt/2pPvUAa Scrabble Mr Olatunde Oduwole, the 2016 National Scrabble Champion on Monday expressed optimism that Nigeria would retain the world scrabble title won two years ago. Oduwole told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that all Nigeria needed was to work hard to defend the title. “We are going to play the qualifier, and hopefully I will try my best to qualify and show to the world once again that I can do it. “I have not won it before, but I have proven to the world that I am one of the players to be reckoned with. “When we get there, we have lots of tasks. We don’t have to relent because we won the world championship. “The people that are coming from all over the World are like vampires, we call them ‘vampiric’ scrabble players. “So we are going there with our best, pray hard, not just praying, we need to work hard then you now compliment it with prayers, God’s favour, and be able to do it once again, which is possible. “We need to work hard, rea...

http://ift.tt/2qgHpCA US President Donald Trump exits Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 13, 2017 . Olivier Douliery / AFP President Donald Trump said Saturday he would act quickly to appoint a new FBI director following his controversial dismissal earlier this week of James Comey — a move that was still reverberating around Washington. Trump’s administration — embroiled in a deepening crisis over the sacking and its shifting explanation of events — is interviewing the first candidates for the post on Saturday, US media reported. “We can make a fast decision,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One before flying to southern Virginia, where he delivered his first commencement address as president at Liberty University, an evangelical Christian school. The White House has provided no set timeline for the process of replacing Comey. Asked if the decision or an announcement could take place before he leaves for Saudi Arabia on Friday, ...