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BENIN CITY – The crisis rocking Edo state All Progressives Congress (APC) continued on Friday as a group Concerned Edo Citizens Forum, (CECF) has cautioned political parties against the adoption of direct primary to select its candidate for the September governorship election citing the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic. A statement signed by Convener and Secretary of the group Comrade Roy Oribhabor …

BOSTON — The Massachusetts unemployment rate for April was 15.1 percent, up from 2.9 percent in March and 3.0 percent in April 2019, according to a report released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. By comparison, economic historians say the peak unemployment rate in Massachusetts during the Great Depression came in 1934, when it hit 25 percent. During …

…govt harps on screening, testing to contain pandemic Edo State has recorded one more death, bringing to a total of 6 coronavirus-related deaths in the state. At the same time the government has announced the discharge of four more coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, who have tested negative for the virus and cleared from the state’s isolation centres. The state also recorded 25 …

Cautions govs on lockdown relaxation339 new cases spike tally to 7,016 with 1,907 discharged, 211 dead The federal government Thursday kicked against large gathering during Sallah celebration holding saturday, saying it might put many people, particularly the aged, at risk of COVID-19 infection. Some governors in the northern part of the country had relaxed the lockdown, imposed on their states …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday approved a new policy framework known as Policy on Conducting Elections in the Context of COVID-19 Pandemic. The commission, in a statement issued by Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, said the policy document would be released on May 25. Mr Okoye said that the provisions would be …

A Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, has convicted Yunusa Dahiru for abducting Ese Oruru. Justice Jane Inyang sentenced Dahiru to 26 years in prison in a judgment she delivered on Thursday. The abduction of Ese, the youngest child of Charles Oruru and Rose Oruru, occurred on August 12, 2015 at her mother’s shop in the …

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire,  on Thursday, said COVID-19 patients, who spent a long period at isolation centres were at the risk of depression. Ehanire, who stated this in Abuja at the press conference of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, said government planned to deploy psychologists in isolation centres to take care of such patients. At the …

Ahead of Eid-el-Fitr celebration, the Sultan of Sokoto-led Jama’atu Nasril Islam, JNI, has directed Muslims in Nigeria to pray at home with their families on Sallah day, as the eid prayer congregation remained suspended, due to the rampaging and highly contagious coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic. Secretary–General of JNI, Dr. Khalid Aliyu, said, in a statement, yesterday, that the directive was a …

Edo State Government has described as misleading a video making the rounds on social media with a footnote that a Dangote truck was impounded in Benin City recently by the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), for allegedly conveying arms and ammunition and other contraband materials. In a statement, the Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Media and …

…Says Edo not invaded by bandits The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has thrown its weight behind community policing scheme, initiated by Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki in his efforts to address security challenges in the state. Obaseki  disclosed this while inaugurating the Edo State Community Policing Advisory Committee (SCPAC) and Edo State Community Policing Committee at the Government House, …