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Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) Management, said on Saturday it had concluded plans to roll out no fewer than 90,870 meters to customers in its franchise areas of Edo, Delta, Ondo and Ekiti states in the first quarter of this year. The BEDC head of Public Affairs, Mr Tayo Adekunle, told newsmen in Benin that the meters were allocated to …

Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, on Saturday said he had received instructions from the Convener of the #RevolutionNow movement, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, to sue the Nigeria Police Force for torture. According to the Nation, Falana, in a statement, said his client was maltreated, tortured, and subjected to dehumanising conditions in contravention of the Anti-Torture Act. Sowore was arrested on …

Ogun State government has suspended the Honourable Commissioner for Environment, Hon Abiodun Abudu-Balogun, from office pending the conclusion of an independent investigation into an allegation of sexual harassment of a 16-year old, Barakat Mayowa Melojuekun, levelled against him. In a statement issued in Abeokuta on Sunday, and published by the Vanguard, the Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Tokunbo Talabi, …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has urged manufacturers and Nigeria’s industrious youths to exploit the opportunities offered by the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) to create wealth and boost the country’s economy. In a statement, Obaseki applauded the commencement of trading under the AfCFTA on the 1st of January 2021, describing it as a milestone achievement in boosting …

Cement manufacturers have agreed with the Nigerian Federal Government to charge discount price towards the success of the Social Housing scheme where the Buhari administration will construct 300,000 houses under the Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP), for low income earning Nigerians. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) made the disclosure over the weekend while visiting the completed model houses in Dei Dei …

The All Progressives Congress says it has set up a panel to probe its loss in the last governorship election in Edo State. Governor Godwin Obaseki, who defected from the APC to the Peoples Democratic Party, defeated the APC candidate, Ize Iyamu, in the governorship poll. The APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee disclosed on Friday that the party had set …

… NMA, NARD express concern Medical doctors in Nigeria have decried the delay in the commencement of life insurance for frontline health workers combating the COVID-19 pandemic, saying there is no specific time for the implementation of the scheme. Presidents of the Nigerian Medical Association, Prof. Innocent Ujah; and National Association of Resident Doctors, Dr Aliyu Sokomba, stated this in …

Republicans say they will reject presidential electors from states where Trump campaign contested results unless audit completed Ted Cruz of Texas, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and nine other Republican US senators or senators-elect said on Saturday they will reject presidential electors from states where Donald Trump has contested his defeat by Joe Biden, “unless and until [an] emergency 10-day audit” of such …

…dons warn FG against mass vaccination plan • Reps set to revisit bill mandating vaccines for Nigerians • FG places six-month ban on 100 travellers for shunning PCR test • Bayelsa, Ebonyi postpone school resumption, Rivers resumes Monday The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has ruled out the possibility of conducting a local clinical trial on …

The Oyo State Security Network Agency, aka Amotekun, in collaboration with some hunters, has flushed out two sets of herdsmen from the Opara Forest Reserve and the Oyo State Agricultural Development Programme Forest. The Chairman of Amotekun Corps, Gen. Kunle Togun (retd), on Saturday, in a statement by the Information Officer of Amotekun in Oyo State, Mrs Ayolola Adedoja, said …