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Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, has said the state has obtained intelligence reports that some misguided politicians have started recruiting cultists, ex-convicts and thugs in furtherance of their political aspirations for 2023. The governor said the state government is aware that owners of hotels and entertainment centres are in the process of giving out their premises to politicians and political …

The statements by the Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo, that security challenge rocking Nigeria is a global phenomenon and not peculiar to Nigeria and that parents should plead with members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), who have been on strike for over five months to go back to class because Federal Government does not have money …

As at the end of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Team Nigeria amassed a total of 12 Gold, 9 Silver and 14 Bronze Medals, bringing the numbers to a total of 35 medals. Find below a complete list of the winners and their sports events: Weightlifting 1.Adijat Adenike Olarinoye (Gold, Women’s 55kg). Edidiong Joseph Umaofia (Bronze, Men’s 67kg).Rafiatu Folashade Lawal …

Asaba, Nigeria – Against media reports credited to Rita Lori Ogbebor, the Niger Delta Integrity Group, NDIG, Sunday, said the inauguration of the 2019 screened and confirmed substantive board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC was not being delayed because of pending court cases. The group in a statement by its President and Secretary, Akpoebide Okotiene and Edet Ekpenyong, …

  …Backs impeachment of President Buhari Edo United Forum (EUF) has condemned the proposed Water Resources Bill, being considered in the National Assembly, describing it as an attempt by the Buhari-led Government to enslave the Niger Delta and entire Southern Nigeria. The group made its position known at the Conference of All President Generals of Niger Delta Ethnic Nationalities on “The …

Edo State Government has extended the deadline for the enforcement of the use of state colour code by commercial drivers in the state. In a statement, the Commissioner for Transportation, Engr. Osasere M. Evbuomwan, said the state government is not insensitive to the plight and requests of the drivers concerning the regulation of the State Transport Policy. He noted, “Edo …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Nigeria – In what looks like a drastic house-cleaning measure, Edo State Police Command said it has arrested seven policemen and set up an Ad-hoc committee to investigate allegations of official corruption levelled against its personnel across the state. The command also stated that the seven arrested and detained personnel are under investigation in connection …

Edo State Government has extended the deadline for the enforcement of the use of state colour code by commercial drivers in the state. In a statement, the Commissioner for Transportation, Engr. Osasere M. Evbuomwan, said the state government is not insensitive to the plight and requests of the drivers concerning the regulation of the State Transport Policy. He noted, “Edo …

The industrial dispute between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities may worsen following the insistence of the Federal Ministry of Education that its proposed agreement with the union will not be binding on state universities. The spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Education, Ben Goong , in an interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja …

Ekweremadu and his accountant wife, Beatrice, 55, are standing trial at the Central Criminal Court, London, for alleged organ harvesting They were arrested by the Metropolitan police on June 21, at Heathrow Airport, after arriving on a flight from Turkey. The couple were accused of plotting to traffic 21-year-old Ukpo Uwamini David from Nigeria to the United Kingdom, to transplant …