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United States and European officials have been discussing how the West would support a government in exile helmed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should he have to flee Kyiv, Western officials told CNN. The discussions have ranged from supporting Zelensky and top Ukrainian officials in a potential move to Lviv in western Ukraine, to the possibility that Zelensky and his …

Edo State Government has embarked on a recertification exercise for petrol and gas stations in Benin City, with the aim of ensuring that operators possess requisite permits to run the facilities. Commissioner for Physical Planning, Urban and Regional Development, Isoken Omo, in a statement, said owners and operators who fail to comply with the directive not later than Thursday, March …

Rome – The leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church warned Saturday that Russian bombardments have left some people in Ukraine without heat in freezing temperatures. In a video message on March 5, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk urged the international community to do everything possible so that humanitarian convoys can access cities where Russian shelling has cut off power and …

…Say Edo is sets for council polls, as PDP registers over 539,000 members Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, at the weekend, said he has no plan of defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), urging anyone who is uncomfortable with his leadership of the party to leave. The governor, who stated that the party is now fully harmonized, stressed …

*VP attends Thanksgiving Mass to honour late Second Republic House of Reps member, Chief Ideh With the number of security challenges facing the country in recent times, the collaboration between traditional rulers across the country and Government at all levels is even more critical now so as to improve security nationwide. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), stated this on Saturday …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday departed Abuja for routine medical check-up in London. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president had initially planned to embark on the trip from Nairobi, Kenya after attending the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) at 50 in that country. The president’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, had on March 1, in a statement, said the …

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to probe the spending on the country’s four refineries, and alleged corruption and mismanagement of public money budgeted for the rehabilitation, operation, and maintenance of the refineries since 1999. SERAP request which was contained in a letter dated March 5, 2022, and signed by SERAP Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, also …

Prevaling economic realities, especially the rising price of crude oil at the international market, and the cost of petrol subsidy, which is threatening the 36 states could worsen the financial crisis facing the states ahead of 2023 election. Already the states’ governors have expressed concerns, and are asking the Federal Government to remove subsidies and save states from going bankrupt. …

When Ololade Fayemi moved into a new apartment in April last year at the Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos, she did not know that the residents had been living in darkness. A gas explosion in the area in October 2020 had damaged their transformer and left them without electricity. The 30-year-old, who runs a fashion-designing business in her home, said houses connected to the transformer …

•As FG reconstitutes team to renegotiate 2009 agreements•Govt deliberately undermining education, says don The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, demanded immediate resignation of the Minister for Education, Adamu Adamu, over incessant strikes embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). It also asked the minister to tender an unreserved apology to the nation for walking out on the …