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Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has congratulated Engr. (Mrs.) Bose Ogbeifun Oviasu on her emergence as the first female president of Edo National Association Worldwide (ENAW). In a statement, the governor said “the development reflects the new thinking of the modern era of the Edo Nation, which takes pride in opening up the space and ensuring opportunities for women …

History was recently made when Edo-born businesswoman and Philanthropist, Engr. (Mrs.) Bose Ogbeifun-Oviasu was elected the first female president of Edo umbrella organization in the Diaspora, known as Edo National Association Worldwide (ENAW). Engr. Oviasu is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Trustcare Group Homes Inc. in Michigan, United States of America. The election which took place on Saturday …

Barely 24 hours after the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, patrolled the Abuja-Kaduna Highway, terrorists kidnapped 22 persons and raided houses in Jere town along the highway, The PUNCH has learnt. The PUNCH had reported that IGP Usman had on Saturday gone on patrol along the Abuja-Kaduna highway with some senior officers and men with a view to ensuring adequate security along the highway. Usman …

Subscribers who are yet to link their phone numbers to their NINs will not be allowed to make calls until the linkage is done. The federal government has ordered telecommunication companies to bar calls from phone numbers that are yet to be linked to their National Identity Numbers (NIN) from today, April 4. Subscribers who are yet to link their …

About a hundred groups of bandits with over 30,000 militants are operating in the northwest, killing, maiming, and kidnapping innocent citizens and residents of the region. The rural banditry and terrorism ravaging Nigeria’s northwestern states are products of a poor criminal justice system, ethnic profiling and criminality propelled by poverty, a body of security experts said in a report. The Centre …

The Nigerian Railway Corporation has said its manifest showed that there were 362 passengers on board the train before the attack happened. One week after terrorists attacked a train in Kaduna State, over 100 of the passengers have yet to be accounted for, an official has said. PREMIUM TIMES reported last Monday’s attack on the Kaduna-bound train by terrorists who …

…Says N21 million is a governor’s ten months salary A gubernatorial aspirant in Katsina State, Engr Muttaqha Rabe Darma has condemned the call for aspirants interested in running for governorship position under the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in 2023 to purchase the expression of interest form for the whopping sum of N21 million. According to Muttaqha, the announcement is invariably …

“Where the state is too weak to be dangerous, non-state actors might become too strong.” All Progressives Congress, APC, are fond of telling their critics they “can’t stop a moving train”. In Kaduna on March 28, the moving train of the APC derailed both as a fact and as a metaphor. The following day, on March 29, the second leg …

Edo State Government has urged citizens to adhere to building plans and ensure to seek permits when converting their buildings to other uses. This call was made by Commissioner for Physical Planning, Urban and Regional Development, Isoken Omo, during an on-the-spot assessment of the aftermath of a fire incident on Aimure Street, along Boundary Road, GRA, Benin City. Three stores …

Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo has said security challenges have overwhelmed the regime of the nation’s President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). He said this while reacting to the recent attacks on the Kaduna-Abuja train with no fewer than seven persons were confirmed dead and 21 passengers missing. The Punch reported Obasanjo as saying that the development has shown that …