Over 14 villages from Obazuwa to Agbenikaka communities in Ovia North East Local Government Area (LGA) of the state have been marked for electrification, Edo State Governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has assured.Obaseki said the plan is part of his administration’s efforts to open up rural communities and boost economic activities across the state.The …
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Governor Rotimi Akeredolu says the Ondo State Security Network Agency, also known as Operation Amotekun, will not be subsumed under the community policing arrangement of the Nigeria Police Force. He also insisted that governors would not pay community policemen. Before now, states across the country had clamoured for independent police systems to tackle peculiar security challenges in their localities. Earlier …
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The Nigeria Police Force says states will be responsible for the salary and upkeep of community policemen. The Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of Research and Planning, Adeleye Oyebade, said this on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Tuesday. Oyebade said the Nigeria Police Force remained one entity but the constables that would be recruited for community policing would be part-time …
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The Minister of State for Education, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, says the Federal Government has started considering full reopening schools. Nwajiuba said this during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Monday in Abuja, monitored by our correspondent. Though he said no date has been fixed yet for full schools’ resumption, the minister urged protesting students to “be …
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Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), says many of the states agitating for community policing owe salaries. He said the President was particular about the sustenance of the community policing arrangement, hence, the delay with his assent. Before now, states across the country had clamoured for community policing to …
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MASSACHUSETTS — Because you can never have too many long-range winter forecasts when summer is still stinking hot in many places across America, the Farmers’ Almanac has released its long-range 2021 winter forecast for Massachusetts. The Farmers’ Almanac calls its forecast the “winter of the Great Divide” with “cold and snowy conditions in the North, drought in the West and …
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BOSTON— Less than 30 percent of respondents to an informal survey of Patch Massachusetts readers said they plan to entrust their ballots to the U.S. Mail, despite the lingering coronavirus pandemic and the resulting fears about the safety of in-person voting on Nov. 3. The survey results come a week before the state’s Sept. 1 primary, for which in-person early …
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MASSACHUSETTS — It’s Monday, Aug. 24. Here’s what Patch has been covering across Massachusetts today: Friday’s recommendation from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s that remote teachers work from empty classrooms was soundly blasted by the state’s largest teachers union. “It is paternalistic and punitive and has no bearing on the quality of education that the real experts — …
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…Donate learning materials Old students of the Benin Technical College in England, have applauded the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration for revamping the college, now known as Government Science and Technical College (GSTC), after several years of neglect. The President of the Alumni association, Mr. Nosa Igbinidu, who was represented by Prof. Deborah Odejimi, gave the commendation during the presentation of …
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Edo State Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Comr. Philip Shaibu, on Monday, petitioned the Edo Police Command and the Department of State Services (DSS), seeking the arrest and prosecution of the former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole. Added to the list for arrest and prosecution request, is the APC gubernatorial candidate, Osagie Ize-Iyamu, whom he alleged …
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