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Edo State branch of Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) has rolled out the impact of the government’s intervention in flood and gully erosion ravaged communities across the state to the World Bank and 23 other NEWMAP benefitting states. The Coordinator of Edo NEWMAP, Dr. Tom Obaseki, who led other officials of the Edo NEWMAP to an Implementation Completion …

Duport Energy Park will boost the production of naphtha, diesel, kerosene, CNG, LPG and LNG in the state, in furtherance of the state government’s industrialization drive, the Managing Director of Duport Midstream Company Limited, Dr. Akintoye Akindele, said on Thursday. Akindele said this during a visit of the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. …

Washington, D.C. – A West Virginia priest is speaking publicly about his role in providing a funeral Mass and dignified burial for more than 100 aborted babies that pro-life activists say they rescued outside of a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic, according to report by the Catholic News Agency. “I buried the babies myself,” Father Bill Kuchinsky, 62, a longtime advocate …

Benin City, Nigeria – Fifteen communities and several Civil Society Organizations led by the former Attorney General of Edo State, Osagie Obayuwana on Wednesday barricaded the Lagos-Benin express road for several hours protesting the activities of herdsmen. According to Vanguard News Nigeria the protesters said herdsmen’s activities have resulted in killings, destructions of farm produce and forceful evictions from their …

Two kidnappers operating within the terrain of Ochadamu village, Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi on Wednesday, met their Waterloo in the hands of local security hunters after a gun battle. Mr Mohammed Musa, an official of the local government disclosed this to newsmen in a statement on Wednesday. Musa noted that the kidnappers were killed just a few days …

Edo State Government has intensified enforcement against street trading, hawking and illegal vehicle parking across markets in the Benin metropolis, in a renewed effort to clear the state of all environmental nuisances and restore sanity to markets in the state. Officials of Edo State Public Works Volunteers (PUWOV), led by its Coordinator, Mukhtar Yusuf-Osagie, embarked on the clampdown of illegal …

Edo Internal Revenue Service (EIRS) has said that the Ministries of Physical Planning, Urban and Regional Development, Education and the Edo Geographic Information Service (EdoGIS) top revenue generation in the state in the first quarter of 2022. This was disclosed by the Chairman of the Edo State Internal Revenue Service’s (EIRS) Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) Taskforce, Hon. John Inegbedion. He …

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Abuja, Nigeria – The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, on Wednesday, disclosed that Peter Nwachukwu, alleged murderer of his wife, famous musician, Osinachi Nwachukwu is still in the custody of the police while investigations continue. IGP made the disclosure when he received the Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Kedem Tallen, OFR, who paid …

“But you cannot give us erratic electricity that is undependable and then blame us again that we are lazy,” Mr Tinubu says. A presidential aspirant, Bola Tinubu, has taken a swipe at Nigerian leaders, saying he would tackle the challenges they have failed to address if he becomes the president. Speaking in Lagos on Saturday while addressing hundreds of young …

Kaduna is also the state where bandits attacked a moving train, killing some of the passengers and kidnapping dozens of others. An aircraft belonging to the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has crashed in Kaduna, PRNigeria has reported. The online media, which has links to Nigeria’s security institutions, said the aircraft is a training aircraft. “While details of the incident are …