Sentences with phrase «federal military government»

Detention without trial, almost all through the war, by the Gowon Federal Military Government.

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Yves Robins, a senior vice president with Dassault, the French aircraft - maker, said the Conservative government's recent overhaul of the military procurement system means federal officials would be hard - pressed to explain a return to the F - 35 sole - source plan.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump's push for a major military buildup suffered a setback on Thursday when the House of Representatives put plans on hold to fully fund the federal government through next Sept. 30 and instead resorted to temporary measures freezing spending at current levels.

The decision has been ascribed to some combination of the persuasive powers of the president - elect, about $ 7 million in tax breaks from the state of Indiana, and implicit threats to the valuable business Carrier's parent company United Technologies, a major military contractor, conducts with the federal government.

There are currently no federal labour rules about drug and alcohol testing outside the military and successive governments from the late 1980s have stayed away from the issue.

I started a government - contracting consulting firm, Integrated Finance and Accounting Solutions, which services military and other government institutions and assists them in federal financial management in the areas of internal audits, internal controls, budgeting and accounting processes.

But to many Republicans, he's an unreliable ally who is often at odds with traditional conservative ideology on drug policy (he's for medical marijuana), foreign intervention (he opposes most military actions) and government surveillance (he thinks more checks are needed on federal power).

The Globe and Mail is reporting that due to the crisis in East Timor, the federal government has banned the sale of military equipment to Indonesia indefinitely.

The Institute notes that federal public service employment, excluding military and RCMP uniformed personnel and federal government business enterprise employees, has increased by about 35 per cent between 1999 and 2009, (from 224,600 to 302,000), well in excess of overall growth in population of 11 per cent over that period.

Along with the NSA, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and branches of the U.S. military have agreements with such companies to gather data that might seem innocuous but could be highly useful in the hands of U.S. intelligence or cyber warfare units, according to the people, who have either worked for the government or are in companies that have these accords.

Investigatory material compiled solely for the purpose of determining suitability, eligibility, or qualifications for Federal civilian employment, military service, Federal contracts, or access to classified information, but only to the extent that the disclosure of such material would reveal the identity of a source who furnished information to the Government under an express promise that the identity of the source would be held in confidence.

The federal government has promised to keep 68,000 full - time military members and 27,000 reservists in uniform, despite declines in defence spending and the closure of 12 military recruiting centres across the country in 2013.

Mr. Glenn, Mr. Reid said, had told him he thought that the federal government should be looking seriously into U.F.O.s, and should be talking to military service members, particularly pilots, who had reported seeing aircraft they could not identify or explain.

ICC say that according to media reports, Pakistan's federal government is considering moving the trial of Mr Bhatti's murder to a closed military court, which would speed up the process and reduce interference from radicals.

There is a much more serious issue behind the percieved need for military - style weapons: many U.S. citizens, especially in the South after the Civil War, do not trust the Federal Government.

In case you missed it, our Laws expressly forbid the use of the American Military to enforce U.S. civilian law, whether Federal, State or local, yet the Government does it with impunity at will.

As the progressive site Think Progressreported, the Hyde Amendment set the status quo for federal abortion policy and «spawned similar restrictions banning abortion coverage for government employees, Peace Corps volunteers, federal inmates, military personnel, and Native American women.»

But the history of the voting privilege in the twentieth century shows that it takes the combined power of mass movements, economic pressures, and the Federal Government with its military force to give even a relative assurance that this requirement of justice will be realized.3 It seems, therefore, that when we move from the perspective of love to concrete issues of social strategy and political power, justice is accomplished by a confluence of historical forces and humane considerations which indeed may be enforced by love, but which must have other sources.

On Monday, Trump also signed executive orders revoking a trade agreement with Asia known as the Trans - Pacific Partnership and instituting a hiring freeze for federal government posts other than those in the military.

And in that context, why shouldn't the federal government make those meals as healthful as practicable, especially since the consequences of poor childhood nutrition — obesity, obesity - related diseases, health care costs, lack of military readiness — are all borne in part by taxpayers?

«The so called military operations code named «OPERATION PULO SHIELD» in the Niger Delta region who our partners in the oil bunkering activities, because presently without been told the former JTF Commander, Major - General Emmanuel Atewe who was arrested by the EFCC last week over pipelines surveillance contract amounts to N8.2 billion in the region, is an eye opener to the federal government that the military are fully involved in illegal bunkering in the area.

Rochester - based Carestream is getting a multi-million-dollar contract from the federal government to supply picture archiving and communications system products to the four U.S. military branches.

He noted further that «these killings have continued unabated since January 2018; Aware that as a consequence, the Federal Government through the Nigerian Army, embarked on a military exercise code named Ayem A» Kpatuma, or cat race;

The junior officers were members of an underground political group within the Ghana Armed Forces called the Free Africa Movement (FAM) that they formed in October 1970 with the objective of seizing power in Ghana 1984 and using the country as the nucleus of a military - led push for the unification of the African continent under a single federal government.

This led the Federal Government to issue a directive to the military to fish out the perpetrators of the act.

The group called for a probe into the attacks, adding that the Federal Government's claim that it had beefed up military presence must be investigated.

Minister of Defence, Munsur Muhammad Dan — Ali has reiterated the federal government's determination to continue to provide critical infrastructure in the military as well as the much needed operational...

The Governor disclosed that having zero tolerance for any form of crime, and in fulfilment of the campaign promise made by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the Federal Government has concluded plans to upgrade the Military Brigade in Sokoto into a Division under the command of a Major General, and the Battalions in Katsina and Zamfara to the status of Brigades, each under the charge of a Brigadier General.

Following various deterrent options put in place by the Federal Government to dissuade Boko Haram terrorists from their course of insurgency; the Nigerian military have spearheaded...

Sometimes last year, a former top military officer and a governor issued an official statement accusing Federal Government of being behind terrorism activities in North - East.

«When I had the honour to lead a Military Government there were more Christians than Muslims in the Federal Executive Council and the Supreme Military Council.

Ahead of today's (Monday) visit by the Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo - led Federal Government delegation to the restive oil - rich Niger Delta, youths in the region on Sunday released a 22 - point demand, including the immediate release of detained activists and ex-militants arrested by operatives of the Nigerian military in the region.

In 1893, for example, the $ 165 million spent on military pensions was the largest single expenditure ever made by the federal government.

For the starry - eyed romantics thundering as if impunity and institutional subversion debuted with the military, Awo provided many examples of such in his book, The Travails of Democracy and the Rule of Law: CJN Adetokunbo Ademola letting off a cocktail jab at someone «who must oppose for opposing sake» (judiciary playing politics); PM Tafawa - Balewa who grumbled that Awo «called himself» Leader of Opposition (head of government subversive of the Constitution); and East Premier Michael Opara who snapped the Federal Government had powers to «abolish» misbehaving regional governments (executive outlawry against Nigerian fegovernment subversive of the Constitution); and East Premier Michael Opara who snapped the Federal Government had powers to «abolish» misbehaving regional governments (executive outlawry against Nigerian feGovernment had powers to «abolish» misbehaving regional governments (executive outlawry against Nigerian federalism).

Trump's first budget for the federal government is a blueprint that would make deep cuts in the Environmental Protection Agency and other domestic programs while significantly increasing spending on the military.

After the first military coup of 1966 and under the short - lived administration of the then Head of State General Aguiyi Ironsi, Decree 34 of 1966 was promulgated abrogating the federal system of government and substituting same with unitary system of government.

Meantime, military authorities in Nigeria have debunked reports in foreign media that Nigerian militant group with sympathy to Biafra and IPOB hijacked a ship and are demanding the release of Nnamdi Kanu by the Federal Government before the ship will be released.

De Blasio pledged to end veteran homelessness in his State of the City speech in February, but advocates said the mayor's goal relies disproportionately on a grant from the federal government, which will help the city create a housing plan for military veterans in the shelter system.

Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday in Kaduna said that the federal government has sanitised the military procurement process to prevent corruption.

The video shows some men in military camouflage, believed to be fighting the Boko Haram insurgents in north eastern part of the country blasting the Federal government for abandoning them.

Following the recent video clip trending in the media over alleged maltreatment of personnel fighting against the Boko Haram in the North Eastern part of the country by the Federal government, the military has reacted against the video.

The Federal Government Wednesday afternoon released Colonel Nicholas Ashinze, the former Military Assistant to former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.

According to the organisation, the inability of the Federal Government under the former military Head of State to address grievances among different sections of the country has led to rising tension in the land.

Sani argued that despite the Federal Government's failure to honour the late Abiola, the June 12, 1993 presidential election that the late businessman won, but which the military junta of General Ibrahim Babangida annulled, laid the foundation for the current democratic rule in the country.

Encroachment is a key factor that is considered when the federal government is reviewing military bases for potential shut down and 70 individual, 600 - foot tall wind turbines, located on the edge of Lake Ontario near the base, could be considered major objects of encroachment.

The chief of air staff said Federal Government and the military were committed to addressing current security challenges in the middle belt and in other parts of the country.

«If these military men are not answerable to the governor or they are disobeying him, the governor needs to say it so that this senate or the federal government can take a position.

The federal government is to establish a military industrial complex in Kaduna State with the aim of promoting research and innovation in the nation's defence sector.

IYC urged the federal government to heed the advice by the United States and the United Kingdom that military approach to the challenges in the region would never work but end in disaster.

Senator Charles Schumer is calling on the federal government to restore a requirement that all military steel be made from start to finish in the United States.