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Tanzania has its first-ever female president after Vice President Samia Suluhu was sworn in as president following the death of President John Magufuli. She will now see out the five-year term of the late Magufuli which began last year. Having been Tanzania’s first-ever female vice president when the first term of the pairing began in 2015, the 61-year-old now becomes the east …

…FG assures of support for games hosting …athletes to be vaccinated ahead of competition Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki on Friday met with the Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, to finetune plans for the hosting of the National Sports Festival, tagged ‘Edo 2020’. The festival, which has suffered several postponements from March 2020, is now scheduled …

Representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Edo State and frontline workers at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) on Friday took their first jabs of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine. The WHO Coordinator in Edo, Mrs. Faith Ireye, who led other members of her team to receive the vaccine, reassured that the AstraZeneca vaccine is safe and …

A former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen (retd.), on Friday, in Abuja, opened up for the first time on his unceremonious removal by the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) before the general elections. According to him, prior to his removal, there had been rumour from the Executive that he held a meeting with former …

Gunmen on Friday waylaid a vehicle belonging to the Nigeria Correctional Services and killed a warder and one other person yet to be identified in Anambra State. This came barely 24 hours after four naval officers and three policemen were killed in different locations in the state and their vehicles set ablaze. The police also said a police station at …

*NEC pledges support for national broadband penetration plan National Economic Council (NEC) rose from its monthly meeting on Thursday, urging Nigerians to participate in the vaccination when it is their turn, as 35 states of the country and the Federal Capital Territory take delivery of the COVID-19 Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccines. NEC also welcomed the integration of the Independent Corrupt Practices and …

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has upheld the ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja, which held that Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki did not forge his certificates to contest for the 2020 gubernatorial election. The members of the Appeal Court panel, which delivered the judgement in the case with suit no CA/ABJ/CV/71/2021 between All Progressive Congress …

*VP declares open retreat to review BPE Act Vice President Yemi Osinbajo of Nigeria has said that the only way to effectively address Nigeria’s massive infrastructural deficit is by Public-Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement in one form or the other.Prof. Osinbajo (SAN), stated this today at the opening of a 2-day retreat of the National Council on Privatization (NCP). The retreat …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has stepped up the campaign for the return of prized Benin artifacts looted from the kingdom, rallying the German Government to ensure return of the artefacts and the realization of the proposed Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA). The governor during a meeting with top diplomats from the German Foreign Office at the …

The National Association of Resident Doctors has asked its members to prepare for an indefinite nationwide strike from March 31, 2021. The PUNCH reports that this will be the third nationwide strike by doctors in just nine months. NARD is the largest union of doctors in the public sector and its members have been on the frontline of the COVID-19 response. …