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Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Wednesday, received the new Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 5 Command Headquarters, Benin, AIG Lawan Tanko Jimeta, charging him to collaborate with the state government to resolve communal clashes and land disputes in the State. The governor while receiving the visitor at the Government House, Benin City, said the new AIG is not …

By Okhide Em’ya David Over Ten trucks loaded with illegal petroleum products have been impounded by the Commandant-General’s special intelligence team of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Edo State Command in Ahor Community near Benin City in Uhunmwonde Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria. The NSCDC team stormed Ahor Community in the early hours of today …

Edo State has recorded 176 cases of Lassa fever since the outbreak of the disease in the state, with the government stepping up efforts to contain the epidemic. The Edo Commissioner of Health, Prof. Obehi Akoria, disclosed this while briefing journalists after the weekly Edo State Executive Council (EXCO) meeting chaired by Governor Godwin Obaseki, at the Government House, in …

Anti-abortion activists said Tuesday that they obtained 115 aborted babies from a driver for a medical waste company in late March, with the intention of giving the unborn children a dignified funeral and burial.  Five of those babies that appear to be of late-term gestation are now in the possession of Washington, D.C. Metro Police, which retrieved the remains Friday from an …

A Jesuit-run middle school in Massachusetts could lose its Catholic designation if it ignores the local bishop’s call to stop flying Black Lives Matter and gay pride rainbow flags outside its building. The Nativity School of Worcester, in Worcester, Massachusetts, has been displaying the flags for more than a year, the Boston Globe has reported, but Bishop Robert McManus of …

…40 injured, terrorists raze three armoured vehicles, seize arms …Ansaru terrorists taxing, kidnapping people in Birnin-Gwari Emirate – BEPU …Terrorists aiming to paralyse Nigeria, says COAS ...Adds, security architecture being reviewed to bridge gaps, bolster fighting will of troops Terrorists, suspected to be the Ansaru arm of the Boko Haram sect, on Monday attacked a military base at Polewire in …

The zoning committee of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, contrary to the expectation of its southern members, has recommended an open race for the party’s 2023  presidential ticket. The party’s 37-person zoning committee, which took the decision at the Benue State Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja, on Tuesday, cited ‘exigency of time’ for its recommendation. One of our correspondents learned the …

Subscribers shared their frustration offline and online about how they realised they could not make calls despite connecting their phone numbers to their National Identity Numbers, NINs. Phone companies on Tuesday barred several phone lines linked to National Identity Numbers, as the government-ordered enforcement targeting those yet to connect their lines to NINs began on a chaotic note. Subscribers shared their …

Nigerian women, on Tuesday, called on all education stakeholders and the Academic Staff Union of Universities to return to the classroom and save the future of Nigerian children, who are forced to stay home and delay their educational advancement. The newly elected President, National Council for Women Societies, Lami Adamu, said this in Abuja during the council’s convention. She said …

In climes cracked by dysfunction and areas ripped apart by anomalies, words usually acquire new, twisted meanings, even as deep-running and defining games altogether come to be tainted with brushes that do not exactly flatter, mostly in service of extraordinary guile, gullibility or even blistering hypocrisy. Many Nigerians are convinced that politics is a dirty game. They argue that because …