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Edo State Government has commenced the process of forest allocation to prospective timber concessionaires in the state as part of efforts to reopen the state’s forest. Chairman Forestry Commission, Edward Obiaw, in a statement, urged interested Timber Licensees, Sawmillers, Corporate Organizations and Timber Contractors to pick forest allocation application forms at the Edo State Ministry of Environment and Sustainability. The …

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Abuja, Nigeria – Pan-African Development organization (AFRODAD) has launched the Media Debt Network Africa (MDNA) in Nairobi Kenya, East Africa. The initiative was launched by AFRODAD for business journalists who report on debt and linked issues such as Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs), International Public finance including Private Public Finance, climate finance or financing for development in …

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Abuja – Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police (IGP). Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered the posting of CP Abutu Yaro to the Edo State Police Command as the state’s new Commissioner of Police. The IGP also ordered the posting of CP Sikiru Akande Kayode, CP Yekini Adio Ayoku and CP Mohammed Ahmed Barde to head the Adamawa, Kaduna, …

Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday escaped unhurt in a road accident in Abuja, although the crash left two of his police aides dead and others injured. The former president was said to have been on his way from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, to his residence in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) when the accident happened. But THISDAY learnt that two …

The Central Bank of Nigeria has imposed an N800m fine on three Deposit Money Banks in the country for violating regulations barring customers from transacting in cryptocurrencies. According to a Bloomberg report released on Wednesday, the three banks are Access Bank Plc, Stanbic IBTC, and the United Bank for Africa Plc. The report noted that the penalties were part of …

• Ortom denies, says he was quoted out of context• Fayose kicks against decision on zoning• Southern leaders vow to vote against PDP if ticket goes to North• Babatope, Olafeso, Grange indifferent• Atiku absent as presidential aspirants meet in Rivers  Leaders of Southern and Middle Belt groups, yesterday, were enraged over the decision of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to …

German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, addressed the killings in Bucha in remarks to parliament on Wednesday, saying that Russian soldiers committed a massacre of Ukrainian civilians there before their withdrawal. “The murder of civilians is a war crime,” Scholz said. Scholz defended the weapons deliveries to Ukraine by his government, pointing out in parliament that the previous conservative-led government had followed …

•Decision makes Oyo, Delta, Rivers, Cross River, Abia, Enugu, Akwa Ibom vulnerable in govship contest, Benue also susceptible •Party unlikely to make appreciable impact in key northern states to compensate for loss in south •Ortom: We’re yet to throw our ticket open •Ohanaeze, PANDEF condemn decision by opposition party, say it’s suicidal, a betrayal •Fayose: PDP must tread carefully over …

Demands by the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, from the Federal Government, when he met with South-East Governors and Ohanaeze Ndigbo Leaders in Enugu shortly before the September 2017 military raid of his Umuahia family house, have been revealed. Kanu’s family which made the revelation yesterday in Umuahia also sought explanations from South-East …

UN Secretary General, António Guterres, on Tuesday added his voice to the growing international calls for a war crimes investigation into the killing of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha. The secretary-general’s comments came after shocking images from Bucha on the outskirts of Kyiv showed hundreds of dead people, some with bullet wounds and their hands tied behind their …