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Edo State Government is leading a campaign to raise awareness amongst residents and health professionals on viral hepatitis, urging for improved sanitation, among other preventive measures to eradicate the disease responsible for inflammation of the liver that leads to severe disease and liver cancer. The Edo State Health Commissioner, Prof. Obehi Akoria, disclosed this to journalists in Benin City, during …

…Aa govt moves to shutdown unregistered markets Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said that his administration is concluding plans to commence the issuance of identification cards to residents across the 18 Local Government Areas of the state as part of measures to check insecurity. The governor disclosed this while addressing stakeholders at a security meeting held in Auchi, …

The National Security Council, Thursday, said it would implement new strategies to address the fast-spreading insecurity and terrorist attacks nationwide as Nigerians are growing “tired” of the menace and are now turning to self-help. The National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Monguno (retd), revealed this to State House correspondents at the close of Thursday’s security council meeting chaired by the …

The Labour Party (LP) on Thursday appealed to its members to embark on aggressive mobilisation to ensure the party’s victory in the 2023 general elections. The party’s Deputy National Chairman, Alhaji Bashiru Apapa, made the appeal at a sensitisation programme for party’s members and the support groups for its Presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi in Ado-Ekiti. Apapa identified the growing …

Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai said President Muhammadu Buhari was not aware of the terrorists’ threat to abduct and kill him. El-Rufai during a Radio Programme said Buhari has been informed of the threat to abduct him and promise to improve security in Nigeria. The Kaduna State governor wondered how bold terrorists have become to threaten to abduct the Nigerian …

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has decried the alarming rate of insecurity in the country. The lamentation of the members of the ruling party may not be unconnected with the increasing daring attacks by terrorists on security agents and defenceless Nigerians. On Wednesday, senators across political parties and a seve4aln of House of Representatives members agreed to impeach President …

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), Thursday in Abuja, said the unbefitting welfare and working conditions of the nation’s judiciary, are “serious and would be treated as such.” He also noted that although the government is willing to act, it can only do so within the limits of its resources considering the dire state of the country’s economy “currently …

The Peoples Democratic Party Caucus in the National Assembly met behind closed doors on Thursday to discuss the impeachment threat issued to President Muhammadu Buhari by the Senate at plenary on Wednesday. The PDP Caucus in the red chamber had before the Senate adjourned plenary to September 20, asked Buhari to end insecurity in Nigeria within six weeks or risk …

A Kano State High Court, presided over by Justice Usman Naabba, on Thursday, sentenced the proprietor of Noble kids College, Abdulmalik Muhammmad Tanko, 38, alongside two others, Hashimu Isyaku, 38 and to death by hanging for, kidnapping, and killing five -year old pupil of Nobel Kids College, Hanifa Abubakar. The PUNCH reports that Hanifa was abducted on December 4, 2021, on …

The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), in Maitama, Abuja, on Thursday, granted bail to the suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Idris Ahmed, and his co-defendants charged with N109 billion fraud. PREMIUM TIMES had reported that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, opposed the defendants’ bail applications, arguing that their alleged offences were in the scale of crimes …