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Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday told President Donald Trump that he does not have the authority to block certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s win when Congress meets to count electoral votes, sources told CNN. Acoording to CNN report, Trump, who already had turned up the pressure on Pence to steal the election, warned him that it would be politically …

President-elect Joe Biden has decided to nominate Judge Merrick Garland as attorney general, people familiar with the matter tell CNN, a long-awaited decision that moved toward completion Wednesday as it became apparent that Democrats were on the brink of winning control of the Senate. The CNN reported that the announcement of the attorney general, along with other senior leaders of …

Edo State Government has rolled out benefit packages for tricycle and motorcycle riders across the state that includes life and health insurance covers and other incentives to improve their compliance with the government’s new Rider’s Permit initiative. Director of Transport, Ministry of Infrastructure, Mr. George Aghahowa, in a statement, said the state government is rolling out the Rider’s Permit Initiative …

Edo State through its network of 4 PCR molecular laboratories has conducted a total of 3201 coronavirus (COVID-19) tests, which returned a total of 242 confirmed positive cases since the state started tracking the second wave of the pandemic on December 1, 2020. The Edo State COVID-19 Incident Manager, Dr. Andrew Obi, disclosed this in a meeting of the Emergency …

By Okhide Em’ya David All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in last year’s Edo Governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has said he will appeal a High Court ruling nullifying his candidacy alongside his running mate, Hon. Audu Ganiyu Abudu, in the tightly-contested September 19 2020 governorship election.   The Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City had on Wednesday, January 6, …

Edo State High Court has held that the All Progressives Congress (APC) Deputy-Governorship aspirant, Audu Ganiyu Abudu, presented false information to INEC in his Form EC9 to enable him contest the September 19, 2020 governorship election in Edo State. The case was brought against Audu Ganiyu Abudu by the Plaintiff, Hon. Sunday Kadiri, from Ogbona ward, in Etsako West Local …

By lgbotako Nowinta, Alltimepost.com Nigeria Bureau Chief Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will win the 2023 Presidential Election in Nigeria, if he contests, but he might not be allowed to rule the country, Prophetess Justina Uzodinma of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), has predicted. “I see forces that will come out and gang up massively against him, to challenge …

*VP meets North East Humanitarian Hub management *pledges support for establishment of Social Innovation and Research Institute In the first meeting of 2021 on Tuesday, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo updated President Muhammadu Buhari in his office on the progress recorded so far in the implementation of the Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP). President Buhari had mandated Vice President Osinbajo as chair …

…PDP Describes insinuations As Baseless, Childish, Embarrassing By Okhide Em’ya David In less than twenty-four hours after Engr. Gabriel Iduseri testified in a forgery and perjury case against Governor of Edo State Mr. Godwin Obaseki  and the Peoples Democratic Party at a Federal High Court  in Abuja, his brother, Mr. ThankGod Iduseri has been shot in Benin City.  ThankGod was …

“Out of the 35,419 in the Batch B, 731 tested positives compared to 108 recorded during the Batch A,” the official said. At least 732 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) batch B, have tested positive for COVID-19, the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, said on Tuesday. Mr Mustapha at a task force briefing …