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Less than 27 months to the 2023 presidential polls, leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, are in a pitch battle for the soul of the party. They are also divided over which zone should produce its next presidential flagbearer. Sources told Vanguard, yesterday, that eyes on 2023 is at the heart of the renewed battle for the control …

Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu has said that farmers who were killed by Boko Haram on Saturday did not have military clearance to be on the rice farms. Shehu said this in an interview with BBC on Monday, stating further that people need to know what it is like in the Lake Chad Basin area. According to him, although much of those areas have been …

President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan is leading a federal government delegation to Maiduguri, Borno State on a condolence visit over the killing of farmers at the weekend by terrorists. According to a statement Monday in Abuja by his Special Adviser, Media, Ola Awoniyi, the President of the Senate left for Maiduguri today, midday. Members of the delegation include …

The Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Monday said Nigeria is currently at the mercy of terrorists because the country is being denied access to acquire needed weapons to fight the insurgents despite efforts to do so. The Minister who lamented the killings of 43 farmers in Zabarmari, Jere Local Government Area of Borno State said the …

Edo State Government has condemned the activities of illegal loggers at Okomu Forest Reserve, which is compromising the forest assets in the state and endangering the wild-life in the park. In a statement, Secretary to the State Government, Osarodion Ogie Esq., directed the forest patrol team to firm up surveillance across the forest belt so as to mitigate the activities …

Barely a month after lighting up the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City, the 55MW CCETC-Ossiomo Independent Power Plant (IPP) has commenced provision of 24-hour power supply to the Edo State Secretariat and the new wing of the State High Court, on Sapele Road, Benin City, the state capital. In a statement, the Secretary to the State Government, Osarodion Ogie Esq., …

By Okhide Em’ya David Fresh industrial crisis looms in Edo State as the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), has threatened to embark on strike if the state government fails to address its outstanding welfare allowance and conditions of service. The teachers, in a letter addressed to the State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, dated November 23, 2020 …

Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Mohammed Junaid, has said that as long as President Muhammadu Buhari and All progressives Congress, APC, are in power, Nigeria will never know peace. According to him, the task of governing the country is beyond President Buhari. Dr. Junaid stated this while reacting to the weekend killings of over 43 persons in Zabarmari in Jere Local …

Armed men, suspected to be members of Boko Haram, attacked the farmers on Saturday. It was a sad day in Zabarmari village as hundreds of residents in the rice-producing community located in Jere Local Government Area of Borno State gathered to bury the 43 corpses of farmers that were slaughtered the previous day. Armed men, suspected to be members of …

The UN also said many women may have been kidnapped during Saturday’s Boko Haram attack. At least 110 people killed were killed in the Boko Haram attack on a farming community in Jere Local Government Area, a top United Nations official has said. PREMIUM TIMES reported the Saturday attack on mostly rice farmers in Zabarmari, a community in Jere Local Government Area, …