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The Nigerian Navy on Saturday said that it had deployed six ships, two tugboats, two helicopters and a Nigerian Airforce ATR42 aircraft toward addressing maritime challenges  in the Gulf of Guniea. The Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo, said  this during the inauguration  of  the 11th Exercise Obangame Express 2021. He said  that the multinational maritime …

Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare says the 20th National Sports Festival in Edo will go ahead as planned from April 2 to April 14 under strict COVID-19 protocols, the News Agency of Nigeria reported on Saturday. According to the report, Dare also said that the reduced 8,000 athletes and officials for the Games would go through all …

Edo State Government has intensified COVID-19 vaccination across the state’s 18 local councils with more health workers, politicians, religious and traditional rulers as well as the elderly receiving the first dose of the vaccine. The state commenced the rollout of the 81, 080 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine received from the Federal Government, during the week, with Governor Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, …

By Okhide Em’ya David Hearing in the case of the State versus the Iyatsere of Warri  Chief Johnson Atselege and 11 Others in the alleged murder of Mr. Sunny Etchie, the Okaoghele of Kolokolo Community in Ologbo Dukedom, Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area, Edo State  has been adjourned to  March 24, 2021. The case was adjourned because of Edo State …

Tanzania has its first-ever female president after Vice President Samia Suluhu was sworn in as president following the death of President John Magufuli. She will now see out the five-year term of the late Magufuli which began last year. Having been Tanzania’s first-ever female vice president when the first term of the pairing began in 2015, the 61-year-old now becomes the east …

…FG assures of support for games hosting …athletes to be vaccinated ahead of competition Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki on Friday met with the Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, to finetune plans for the hosting of the National Sports Festival, tagged ‘Edo 2020’. The festival, which has suffered several postponements from March 2020, is now scheduled …

Representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Edo State and frontline workers at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) on Friday took their first jabs of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine. The WHO Coordinator in Edo, Mrs. Faith Ireye, who led other members of her team to receive the vaccine, reassured that the AstraZeneca vaccine is safe and …

A former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen (retd.), on Friday, in Abuja, opened up for the first time on his unceremonious removal by the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) before the general elections. According to him, prior to his removal, there had been rumour from the Executive that he held a meeting with former …

Gunmen on Friday waylaid a vehicle belonging to the Nigeria Correctional Services and killed a warder and one other person yet to be identified in Anambra State. This came barely 24 hours after four naval officers and three policemen were killed in different locations in the state and their vehicles set ablaze. The police also said a police station at …

*NEC pledges support for national broadband penetration plan National Economic Council (NEC) rose from its monthly meeting on Thursday, urging Nigerians to participate in the vaccination when it is their turn, as 35 states of the country and the Federal Capital Territory take delivery of the COVID-19 Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccines. NEC also welcomed the integration of the Independent Corrupt Practices and …