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Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has approved the relaxation of the COVID-19 lockdown to allow Muslim faithful observe Friday congregational prayers in the state. The Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Mustapha Inuwa, said this in a statement in Katsina. Inuwa said the governor also lifted the ban on Church services every Sunday as well as inter-local government travel …

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Edo, Engr Gideon Ikhine, has promised to provide affordable housing for the residents if elected. Ikhine made the promise while interacting with his supporters and journalists on Friday in Benin. He said successive governments in the state had failed to provide affordable shelter for the people despite all the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) …

…insists Ize-Iyamu not a party member, unqualified to contest for guber ticket …Says Oshiomhole bent on destroying Buhari’s anti-corruption legacy Edo State Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the crisis rocking the Edo State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), noting that the party’s National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, …

Gubernatorial aspirant of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu submitted his nomination form to the national secretariat of the party in Abuja today ahead of the primary election scheduled for the 22nd of June. He was accompanied by Engr. Lawrence Okah, Secretary to the faction of Edo State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress loyal to National Chairman, …

…Obaseki commends health workers’ resilience, commitment Eleven more coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, have been cleared and discharged from the state’s isolation centres to return to their families, Edo State Government announced on Friday. The state also recorded two more COVID-19-related deaths and exited 1159 suspected cases, including 340 Persons of Interest (POI) and 819 line-listed contacts that have completed the compulsory 14-day …

By Victor Ofure Osehobo Frontline aspirant of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has dismissed claims that he is not a member of the party saying those disputing his membership of the party are only engaging in fruitless exercise. He was reacting to a statement credited to some persons who claimed to be Chairmen of the 18 …

By Victor Ofure Osehobo A group known as “Former PDP House of assembly candidates” who contested the 2019 EDHA election and later moved to the All Progressives Congress (APC) have congratulated a frontline aspirant of the APC, Pastor Osagie Ize-iyamu on his emergence as the consensus candidate of the party. In a statement issued by the group’s Chairman, Hon. Cornelius …

…‘maintain he is not a party member’ … endorse indirect primary option for guber candidate selection All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairmen in the 18 Local Government Areas (LGA) of Edo State have flayed the endorsement of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu as the consensus candidate of the APC in the forthcoming governorship primary in the state. The chairmen, in a statement on …

The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has eased lockdown in the state except on weekends. The Governor stated this on Thursday evening while addressing newsmen on the update of COVID-19 held at his Oke-Mosan office. Abiodun said henceforth, there would not be restriction of movement between Mondays and Fridays except on Saturdays and Sundays. He added that the Federal Government’s …

The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the redeployment of Edo, Ondo and Oyo State Commissioners of Police. Eight other CPs were also redeployed in various Commands and Formations, according to a press statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba. The statement said, “The IGP has ordered the immediate posting/redeployment of the following Commissioners of Police …