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The Oyo State Government has suspended all school excursions, field trips and outdoor student activities until further notice over security concerns. The directive is contained in a circular issued on Friday by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. The circular was signed by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Mrs B.T. Oyinloye, and distributed to education stakeholders across the state. Recipients …

The UN says it is rushing emergency personnel, funding and supplies into eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to counter the fast-growing Ebola outbreak spreading through conflict-ravaged provinces. The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday raised the national risk assessment for DRC to “very high”, although the global risk remains “low”. So far, 82 cases and seven deaths have …

Gov. Alex Otti of Abia says his administration has completed 414 road projects, covering 864.12 kilometres across the state in the last three years. Otti disclosed this at his May media chat held on Friday night at the renovated Okpara Auditorium, Umuahia. He spent time to reel out the achievements recorded by his administration in infrastructure, health, education, transportation, environment …

The Benin monarch, Oba Ewuare II, on Thursday received former House of Representatives member, Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama, at his palace in Benin City, where he offered prayers for his political aspiration and urged members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State to embrace peace and unity. Ogbeide-Ihama, who secured the highest votes in the recently conducted APC National Assembly …

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has tried to reassure allies over US decisions on troop deployments in Europe. Rubio’s intervention at the end of a Nato foreign ministers’ meeting in Sweden came after President Donald Trump said the US would send an extra 5,000 troops to Poland. That decision was a week after a planned deployment of 4,000 troops …

Gov. Monday Okpebholo of Edo on Friday, attributed cooperation of traders to the successful completion of the reconstructed Oba market in Benin, which was razed by fire. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that a midnight fire razed the Oba market in June 2020. Okpebholo, who led his Deputy, Dennis Idahosa and top government officials and party leaders on …

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, (NYSC) Brig.-Gen. Olakunle Nafiu, says the scheme continues to promote unity, empowerment, and leadership in Nigeria. Nafiu, who was represented by the Edo NYSC Coordinator, Mr Julius Fasina, spoke on Friday at the 53rd NYSC anniversary in Benin, Edo. He urged corps members to grow and contribute meaningfully to national development. The …

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) says troops of the Armed Forces of Nigeria neutralised scores of terrorists, arrested over 40 suspects, and rescued at least nine kidnapped victims in nationwide operations between May 15 and May 21. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Michael Onoja, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja, detailing operational successes recorded across …

An African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential aspirant, Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, has challenged fellow aspirants, including Atiku Abubakar and Rotimi Amaechi, to publicly commit to the party’s governance principles and code of ethics, known as the Orange Book. Hayatu-Deen, in posts shared on his social media handles on Friday, described the Orange Book as a landmark ethical framework in contemporary Nigerian politics. …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans abruptly left Washington on Thursday without voting on a roughly $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies, frustrated with the White House and at an impasse over whether to try to block a new $1.776 billion settlement fund to compensate Trump allies who believe they have been politically prosecuted. Republicans had already abandoned part …