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When Edo State Government in 2018 launched the Edo Basic Education Sector Transformation, EdoBEST 1.0, nobody envisaged the resounding success it eventually recorded and is recording. It has changed the face of basic education in the state, winning accolades from far and near and also being copied by others. The development led to stepping up the programme with the launch …

Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers, says he won’t stop talking about the injustice in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because it’s negates the zoning arrangement of the party. Wike said this at the inauguration of the satellite campus of the Rivers State University in Emohua Local Government Area of the state.He said that the perpetrators of the injustice in the …

Some civil society organisations recently alleged that four of the RECs nominated for INEC by President Muhammadu Buhari were either corrupt or partisan. Despite the clamour for their withdrawal, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Wednesday, said President Muhammadu Buhari will not withdraw some nominees for the position of INEC Resident Electoral Commissioners recently accused of corruption …

An All Progressives Congress, APC chieftain, Tunde Bank-Anthony has said the presidential candidate of the ruling party, Bola Tinubu, cannot claim glory for the successful record of achievements by the administrations of former governors Babatunde Fashola and Akinwunmi Ambode. Bank-Anthony made this assertion on Wednesday while speaking in an interview with Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily.  He said, “The people that …

Edo State Security Vigilante Network has arrested members of a syndicate specialized in theft of armored cables in the Benin metropolis. An official of the Edo State Security Vigilante Network, who led the operation, Osasere Ekhator, said the three suspected members of the syndicate were arrested during a stop and search exercise along Sapele Road in Benin City, Edo State. …

By Okhide Em’ya David Benin City, Nigeria – Edo State Police Command has paraded one Dr. Abass Adebowale Adeyemi over the alleged murder of a cab driver, Emmanuel Yobo Agbovinuere, (39), in Benin City, the Edo State capital. The suspect, who is a medical doctor, hails from Offa local government of Kwara state was alleged to have killed the victim …

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Abuja – Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) President, Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau (SAN), has inaugurated a fifteen-person committee to investigate the incident that occurred over the distribution of conference materials at the just-concluded 62nd Annual General Conference of the legal body in Lagos State. The inauguration held in the course of a virtual meeting held with members of …

Many Nigerian students studying in Ukraine have been shut out from schools because of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. The Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State, said it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with two Ukrainian universities to absorb students displaced by the ongoing conflict with Russia. The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Lawrence Ezemonye, disclosed this in Okada on Tuesday in his welcome …

There has been a heavy deployment of security and intelligence personnel at the Buhari House national secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC following the expected visit of the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima to the secretariat. Both men are scheduled to meet with the Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led National Working …

Mr Mamu was arrested on Tuesday and detained by Interpol at the Cairo International Airport, while awaiting a connecting flight to Saudi Arabia. The spokesperson for the Kaduna-based cleric, Ahmad Gumi, Tukur Mamu, was arrested in Egypt Tuesday. He was arrested and detained by Interpol at the Cairo International Airport while awaiting a connecting flight to Saudi Arabia. Mr Mamu, …