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President Muhammadu Buhari has advised political parties, candidates and security agents to behave responsibly in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Edo. The president, in a message to voters, political parties, election officials and security personnel, also warned against what he described as “the do-or-die mentality to politics.” The president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in …

Activist and President of Godsent Foundation, Chief Osarodion Osagie yesterday called on actors involved in tomorrow’s governorship election to ensure the votes count and the choice of the people emerges as the next governor of Edo state.   Speaking to journalists in Benin City, he said there was need for re-education of the youths who he said are mostly ignorant of …

Prof. Noel Wannang, the Chairman, Plateau Research Committee on COVID-19, said the committee had successfully developed a herbal cure for the disease. Wannang disclosed this during an engagement with Local Government Chairmen and traditional rulers in Jos on Friday. He said that the team had concluded phase one which was the safe test of the drugs and “has been proven …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Wednesday, launched the state’s Sex offenders’ Register, with a charge to prosecutors to prioritise all cases of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in the state. The governor also inaugurated the state’s Sexual Assault Referral Center (SARC) in Benin City, named after Vivian Ogu, a 14-year-old girl who was killed by armed robbers because she …

… calls on NERC to sanction BEDC over scheme to compromise power supply to collation centres… charges Edo electorate to reject pretend-APC candidate, Ize-Iyamu Edo State branch of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised the alarm over an alleged plot by a former Governor of Lagos State and Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to deploy private …

An Abuja based Civil Society Organisation (CSO), Yiaga Africa said would monitor and expose any electoral fraud that may arise from Saturday’s Edo State governoship election as part of efforts to deepen electoral integrity. It also promised to provide accurate information on the quality of the election day process and ascertain if the official results announced by the Independent National …

Edo State Governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said his second term ambition is not worth spilling the blood of anyone, reassuring that the Saturday’s governorship election in the state would be peaceful and violence-free. Speaking shortly after one day prayer and fasting session for a peaceful election, organised by the Edo Christian …

A former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, has advised Commonwealth member-nations to adopt a grading system for elections towards improving the quality of elections, promoting democracy and strengthening institutions. According to a statement on Tuesday by his spokesperson, Ikechukwu Eze, the former Nigerian leader gave the advise at a special virtual high level panel which focused on 40 years of Commonwealth’s …

Unused data by telecom subscribers must be rolled over in subsequent subscriptions, the Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) has said. This was disclosed in a statement signed by the agency’s spokesperson, Ikechukwu Adinde, on Thursday. The statement said the agency reached the conclusion at the regular bi-annual meeting with senior executives of telecommunication companies on complaints management. The meeting, which was …

…As INEC reiterates commitment to free and fair elections The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday visited the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, headquarters, Abuja to demand assurances of credible and transparent governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states. Addressing newsmen, national vice chairman (North) of the party, Senator Suleiman Nazif said the assurance of free and fair …