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NDDC, in a statement by its spokesperson, Charles Odili, on Sunday, said Peter Nwaoboshi, a serving senator, used 11 companies as fronts to secure for himself N3.6 billion contract in September 2016. Mr Odili said, in the statement, that the contract was the “biggest single case of looting of the Commission’s resources”. Mr Nwaoboshi is a Peoples Democratic Party senator …

…says Oredo, Ikpoba-Okha, Egor remain worst-hit Edo State Government has again cautioned residents to observe precautionary measures against the spread of coronavirus, as confirmed cases of the deadly disease continue to rise in the state. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Patrick Okundia, who spoke to journalists in Benin City, expressed worry over the alarming rate of community spread of the …

The Centre for Gender Studies and Women Development at the Edo State Polytechnic, Usen, has called for collective effort to punish rapists in Nigeria. It noted that the abysmal prosecution and punishment for their actions over time had emboldened people with callous intent to go on rampage, endangering the lives of young girls and other vulnerable persons. Director of the …

NCDC confirms 389 new cases, raising tally to 12,233, discharges 3,826, deaths, 342Lagos records three days consecutive decline in new cases, discharges 42Inter-states travel ban crippling hotels, other businesses, proprietors cry out One hundred days after Nigeria’s index case, an Italian man, was discovered in the country, the federal government has said it is targeting at least one standard infectious …

Three weeks after Israel reopened schools, COVID-19 cases have soared among it’s pupils and teachers, forcing authorities to close down schools again, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. With 347 pupils and teachers testing positive for the virus, 127 schools did not reopen on Sunday, the beginning of the workweek in Israel, NAN quoted an Education Ministry statement. The …

Government at various levels have been admonished on the need to bring on board community pharmacies for remote and community oversight on patients on self-isolation towards providing them with supplements that could aid their immune system to fight COVID-19. The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) gave the admonition on Sunday, when the newly elected chairman of the body, Rasheed Ayinde, paid an unscheduled visit to …

As an individual in your right senses, you may not understand what is going on in the mind of a rapist. And sometimes what drives him to kill his victim after satisfying his sexual urge. The Co-ordinator of the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, DSVRT, Titilola Vivour Adeniyi, shares the findings of a study of 141 rapists …

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus, has said the party has the strategy that will enable it to win the Edo governorship election. He said a committee was being set up to harmonise different strategies to enable them to win the election, noting that the party will explore the crisis rocking the All Progressive Congress …

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has attributed the inability of the Nigerian military and other security outfits to contain the disturbing nation’s insecurity to international politics. He said international politics was slowing down efforts aimed at acquiring sophisticated machinery needed by the security agencies to do their jobs. Lawan spoke on Sunday in an interview with journalists ahead of …

Against rumors that he parades bogus academic credentials, Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State told perpetrators of such rumors, and Edo people, today that his certificates are intact. Obaseki also described as laughable, rumors that he lost his ward in the last general elections, noting that those who make up such stories forget that election results are documented. The governor …