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BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Edo State government has announced plans to conduct a maternity test on the 19-month-old baby allegedly infected with HIV at a private hospital in Benin City, Edo State of Nigeria. Alltimepost.com, the US-based online newspaper which first broke the story, was told that the test would be fully funded by the state government. Dr. Cyril Oshiomhole, the …

Sources said gunmen ambushed commercial buses on the road and dragged the victims into the bush. Police in Edo State, Nigeria’s South-south, have rescued 16 of the 29 passengers abducted on Friday evening along Benin-Auchi Road by suspected kidnappers. Moses Yamu, the police spokesperson in Edo, confirmed the rescue on Saturday in Benin while reacting to the incident. The News Agency …

Once hailed by some as the voice of a renewed Biafran agitation, Simon Ekpa’s influence has collapsed following his sentencing to prison by the Finnish Päijät-Häme District Court. File photo: Simon Ekpa Saturday PUNCH gathered that Ekpa’s imprisonment has shaken members of the separatist movement and cast a shadow over the recent declaration of a Biafran state by his supporters online. …

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, on Saturday issued a public health advisory following confirmation of a new outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC.However, the Centre said no case has been recorded in Nigeria. The DRC Ministry of Health announced that 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths, including four health …

Seoul holds emergency meeting after citizens detained in US Hyundai raid South Korea’s government has held an emergency meeting and vowed to swiftly respond to the arrests of hundreds of its citizens in a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in the US. Immigration agents at the Hyundai battery plant Seoul has dispatched diplomats to the site in Georgia, …

A sprawling Hyundai manufacturing plant in a quiet southeast Georgia community became ground zero on Thursday for one of the most extensive immigration raids in recent US history. The operation, months in the making, ended with 475 arrests, most of them Korean nationals. An American flag flies above a piece of … As state troopers blocked roads leading to the plant and …

As part of efforts to foster student development and ensure a successful academic year, the Edo State Senior Secondary Education Board (SSEB) has embarked on a sensitization exercise themed “Back To School” campaign. The Executive Chairman of the Board, Dr. Maureen Ekhoragbon, led secondary school teachers and other state actors on a road show to sensitise parents, guardians, and students …

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has urged Palestinians to evacuate Gaza City, relocating to what it calls a humanitarian zone in the south as it continues its military offensive in the territory. The Sussi Tower is the second Gaza City high-rise to be destroyed in as many days On Saturday, for a second day running, the Israeli military destroyed a …

Beijing — The optics could not have been more stark as Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived at a massive military parade in Beijing flanked by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un – with some two dozen other leaders including from Iran, Pakistan, Belarus and Myanmar trailing behind. Jumbotrons at Tiananmen Square beamed the image to the 50,000 …

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Friday allegedly killed eight personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, attached to the BUA Cement Factory located in Okpella, Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State. A senior officer of the command in the state, who revealed this on Saturday, said that one expatriate, a Chinese national, was kidnapped …