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By Okhide Em’ya David Academic activities  in Primary Schools  across Edo State, will on Monday, next week assume full throttle,  following Friday’s resolution  of the 19-day-old industrial dispute between Edo State  Government and the state Chapter of  the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT). The leadership of the Edo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on Friday suspended …

By Okhide Em’ya David Executive Director of Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Dr. Olusegun Awolowo, has lamented the monumental shift in the global economic and social structure from rapidly progressive to the opposite in the last few months of COVID-19 second wave. Dr. Awolowo made the statement at a one day capacity building program for women-owned businesses on the use …

Member of the House of Representatives, Honourable Yusuf Gagdi, representing Pankshin/Kanke/ Kanam Federal Constituency (APC-Plateau) says the All Progressives Congress (APC) will remain in power in Nigeria beyond 2023. Gagdi, representing Pankshin/Kanke/ Kanam Federal Constituency, said this shortly after revalidating his membership of the party in Gum-Gagdi in Kanam Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau on Saturday, according to Vanguard …

Edo State Skills Development Agency (EdoJobs) will be exhibiting Made in Edo Products at the Edo Production Hub, to encourage patronage of the locally-made products, beginning from February 11, 2021. Official said it is part of efforts by the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration to encourage local manufacturers.  Head of the State Skills Development Agency, Mrs. Ukinebo Dare, said at the …

The World Health Organization, WHO Country Representative in Nigeria, Dr Walter Kazadi Mulomboo says the WHO has not disqualified any country in Africa from accessing COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX facility, but rather is supporting all countries to access vaccines as quickly as possible. According a report published by the Vanguard, Mulomboo stated this while reacting to the purported disqualification …

By Okhide Em’ya David Hardened suspected kidnapper who operates in Police Uniform, was among 41 suspected hardened criminals, paraded by the Edo State Police Command on Friday. During the operation 8 members of the suspected criminal gang were killed. The new Edo State Police Commissioner, Mr. Phillip Aliyu Ogbadu, while briefing the Media on his exploits in Benin during the …

Article 29 of the Vienna Convention protects diplomats from arrest and detention and grants them immunity from civil or criminal prosecution. President Muhammadu Buhari’s surprise nomination on Thursday of his immediate past service chiefs as non-career ambassadors may have been to shield them from prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for atrocities and rights abuses committed by the Nigerian …

South Korean Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee withdrew her bid to lead the World Trade Organisation, leaving former Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the only remaining candidate for the job, Bloomberg reports Friday. Yoo was said made the decision after discussions with the United States and other major nations, and took various issues into account “comprehensively” including the need to …

By Okhide  Em’ya David Thursday   February 4, 2021 scheduled continuous hearing in the Case of murder of Okaighele of Kolokolo Community in Ologbo Dukedom, Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area, Edo State, Nigeria, Mr. Sunny Etchie and two other Youth Leaders, Okuomuose  Omorodion and  Genesis Orji was stalled by the absence of a Senior State Counsel , Mrs Osasu O Ewemade. The case was brought …

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has nominated all the service chiefs who were changed last week as non-career ambassadors. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday titled “President Buhari nominates Olonisakin, Buratai, Ibas, Abubakar, Usman as non-career ambassadors.” Adesina said their names have been sent to …