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…unveils plans to establish revenue court to drive state’s IGR Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has revealed plans to collaborate with the state judiciary on the establishment of a Revenue Court to boost Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in the state. Obaseki disclosed this after handing over the keys of the newly constructed High Court Complex to the Chief Judge …

Uromi women in Edo state, Wednesday protested against the fulani’s living in the state, demanding that they must leave their community. With pictures of them chanting, ‘Fulani must Go’, the women said they can no longer go to their farms, due to the fear that they may be killed by herdsmen. Uromi women in Edo state, Wednesday protesting Uromi women …

By Okhide Em’ya David Stakeholders drawn from across multi-dimensional sectors in Edo State have called on the State  government to as a matter of urgent public importance rally collective efforts and energies to prosecute the fight against  spread of  the dreaded coronavirus. The recommendations emanated from a crucial stakeholders’ meeting organized by the Edo state sensitization Committee on the 2nd wave of Covid-19, …

The former Presidential candidate under Defunct National Republican Convention, NRC, Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa has on Tuesday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to as a matter of urgency and without any more delay wade into eviction order notice served on herdsmen to vacate the southern part of the country before it degenerates. This was as he said the happenings may …

By Okhide Em’ya David Academic activities in Edo State Public Primary Schools  failed to assume full throttle second day running  on Tuesday as Teachers defied a Court order to suspend a strike action declared by the National Union of Teachers NUT. The National Industrial Court sitting in Benin City had on Monday in a suit filed by the State Government and the …

Edo State Polytechnic, Usen, has commenced engagement with skilled artisans, equipment fabricators and other key stakeholders in the formal and non-formal sectors of the economy in Edo State in pursuance of a project to construct an eco-friendly generator for low-income female artisans in Nigeria. The institution won a grant for the project from the Carleton University and the Canadian government …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has charged the committee on selection of new education secretaries for Local Government Areas (LGAs) to look out for persons with proven integrity so as to sustain the advances made in the state’s basic education sector. Speaking after inaugurating the committee, the governor said his administration would ensure that the effort to reposition the …

Governor of Ebonyi State and Chairman Southeast Governors’ Forum, Engr. David Umahi, yesterday said the zone had before now banned open grazing of cattles within the region. The governor announced this during an APC stakeholders meeting at the Christian Ecumenical Centre, Abakaliki. The governor who said the Southeast Governors’ Forum had also banned the movement of cows by foot enjoined …

Wakili opened fire on emissaries who served him quit notice –Traditional rulerNot even Sunday Igboho can evict Wakili, says Seriki Fulani’s sonAyete is safe, says Amotekun Commandant There is no respite for farmers and residents in Ayete, a town in the Ibarapa area of Oyo State, as they live in fear of Iskilu Wakili, a notorious Fulani warlord who kill …

The ongoing National Identification Number and Subscriber Identity Module integration exercise has been extended by eight weeks, the Federal Government announced on Tuesday morning. It said the new deadline was now April 6, 2021. Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications Commission, Ikechukwu Adinde, who disclosed this in a WhatsApp message to our correspondent, said the extension was conveyed by the Minister …