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Winners of the 2020 National Sports Festival, Delta State, will host the next edition of the festival in 2022. The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, announced this while declaring the 20th edition of the festival tagged ‘Edo 2020’ closed on Wednesday. He said, “Congratulations to Delta State for emerging the overall winner of the Games of the …

• Osinbajo, Dare absent at colourful closing ceremony After 12 days of intense competition in 39 events, Delta State again emerged champions of the 20th National Sports Festival tagged Edo 2020 in Benin City, to extend their dominance at the event. The sporting fiesta ended with a colourful closing ceremony that had live musical performances spiced with the relay finals …

Former Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, has urged other states to emulate the Edo State Government in providing world-class facilities to help promote sports in the country. Speaking at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City during the closing ceremony of the just-concluded 20th National Sports Festival, Dalung, said he was impressed with the state of facilities at …

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs,Disaster Management and Social Development,Sadiya Umar Farouq,has reassured of government’s determination to rescue Chibok girls from their abductors, insisting that contrary to beliefs in some quarters that no action was being taken by the federal administration,it was determined to get the girls out of captivity. Farouq said the federal government was working tirelessly to secure the release …

…Investigate Ebonyi killings, Senate urges Ag IGP, security agencies …Join forces to secure Igbo land, Ohanaeze tasks ESN South East governors yesterday, vowed to resist attempt by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to frustrate its new security network, code-named Ebube Agu. This came  as the Senate  also yesterday called on the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, to …

What could account for the heightened state of insecurity in the South East? This was the poser five governors and heads of the security agencies in the region raised when they met on Sunday, April 11, 2021 in Owerri, Imo State capital, during the first South East Security Summit. Many people are asking their own question: Don’t they know the reason? …

Food inflation also increased from 21.79 percent in February to 22.95 in March. Nigeria’s inflation rate rose to 18.17 percent on March amid accelerating increase in food prices, the National Bureau of Statistics said Thursday. The NBS says the consumer price index, (CPI) which measures inflation increased by 0.82 percent points in March. This is higher than the 17.33 percent rate recorded …

Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has said the federal government is worried over the rising unemployment rate in the country. Speaking at the 2nd Shakeholders’ Meeting on Expatriate Quota Administration organized by the Citizenship and Business Department of the Ministry of Interior, the Minister said: “Anyone that is not worried about the unemployment rate in the country is not …

Members of Eghosa Old Boys Association (’76 set) recently, in Benin City paid their last respect to one of their own, late Justice Morrison Ojeabu Ighodalo, who recently succumbed to the will of God after an illness. Before the burial ceremony, which was attended by dignitaries from far and near, a delegation of the ’76 set of the association, led …

As the Ramadan fast progresses, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has called on Muslim faithfuls in Nigeria to rededicate themselves to higher virtues of kindness, love, and generosity towards each other, regardless of faith or ethnicity.  Speaking to State House Correspondents on his way out from the Council Chambers after the Federal Executive Council meeting which he presided over, Prof. …