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Although many of the usual services across Marine Corps camps on Okinawa, Japan, have stopped and resumed based on the COVID-19 climate, the Joint Reception Center has continued to be a 365 day, 24/7 operation. ”It’s a challenge,” said Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Preston Batson, the assistant barracks manager for the Joint Reception Center Marines. New Marines are required to fulfill …

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Defense (DoD) announced an agreement with the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, to demonstrate large-scale manufacturing and delivery of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate. Under the terms of the agreement, the federal government will own the resulting 100 million doses of vaccine.  The vaccine doses could …

United States Secretary of State, Michael R. Pompeo, today announced imposition of sanctions against Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei, a notoriously corrupt Zimbabwean businessman, for materially assisting senior Zimbabwean government officials involved in public corruption. Sakunda Holdings was also sanctioned for being owned or controlled by Tagwirei. According to him, the sanctions were pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13469. While announcing the sanctions, Pompeo said: Two …

The Olokpe of Okpe Kingdom, HRH, Oba Okhishimede Eshimokhai Idogu III, has said that the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, and his deputy, Rt. Hon. Comr. Philip Shaibu, have performed beyond the expectations of majority of Edo people, and will be reelected in the September 19, 2020 gubernatorial election to consolidate on their developmental strides in the state. The monarch said …

The Deputy Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Hon. Yekini Idiaye has been impeached. He was impeached on Wednesday during a plenary session of the Assembly in Benin City. Details later…    

Hon. Roland Asoro, the member representing Orhionmwon II Constituency in the Edo State House of Assembly (EDHA) has been elected Deputy Speaker. His election follows the impeachment of Hon. Yekini Idiaye on Wednesday. Idiaye was impeached during a plenary session of the Assembly in Benin City. *More Details later…*

By Isaac Eranga Connected Advocacy for Empowerment and Youth Development Initiative, a non-governmental organization registered in Nigeria, has called on the Nigerian government to declare a state of emergency on unsafe and irregular migration, saying uncounted number of lives have been lost through the process. Speaking under the auspices of the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, the Executive Director …

The approved price of petrol in Nigeria for August will increase, by up to 18 per cent according to estimates, as consumers await the release of the new retail price for the commodity by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA). The current approved petrol price, as announced by the PPPRA in July, ranges from N140.80 to N143.80 per litre price. However, …

Top officials of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) paid themselves scholarship grants at a time hundreds of deserving scholarship beneficiaries had not been paid for years and were stranded in different countries, a report has shown. The report by lawmakers joins the other revelations that emanated from the National Assembly’s investigation into spending by the NDDC, which has generated …

Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said the success of upcoming Edo State governorship election would depend much on the level of integrity and impartiality committed by Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and security agencies. Wike, who is also Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Campaign Council for Edo 2020 governorship, in his remarks in Port Harcourt, charged both …