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Edo State government has intensified screening of residents across the state, testing over 2,824 people, contact tracing 1,398 others and visiting over 663 rural and urban communities for Active Case Search (ACS) activities. It is part of government’s intensified measures to curtail the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the state. Edo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Patrick Okundia, who …

A Mobile Court sitting in Benin City has convicted 16 persons for violating the Edo State Dangerous Infectious Diseases Prevention Regulations, put in place by the government to curtail the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state. The Edo State Judiciary had in April, 2020, constituted Mobile Courts across the state to try violators of the Edo State Dangerous Infectious …

Aspirants’ Credentials to be displayed publicly for Claims and Objections The All Progressives Congress (APC) announces six Governorship aspirants to be screened for the Party’s June 22, 2020 Primary Election to elect the Party’s Edo state governorship candidate. The six aspirants who have bought, completed and submitted the Party’s expression of interest and nomination forms are Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, H.E. …

Nigeria has nominated a former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as its candidate for the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) election coming up next year. President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed the nomination on Thursday in an official announcement through the Nigerian Embassy and Permanent Mission to the African Union (AU) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Addis Ababa, …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo has rejected the committee set up by Gov. Godwin Obaseki to reconcile members-elect in the state House of Assembly. Mr. Chris Nehikhare, PDP’s Publicity Secretary in Edo, said in a statement in Benin on Friday that the reason for such committee was baseless. He said that the 14 persons to reconcile with could …

As state governments reopen worship centres this weekend, the Federal Government has threatened to review the relaxation of the restriction placed on churches and mosques, if worshippers disregard its guidelines. The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, said this on Thursday at the task force press conference in …

The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on Thursday night, led other principal officers of the red chamber to welcome back one of their members, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, from the Nigerian Correctional Service in Kuje, Abuja. Kalu, a former governor of Abia State,  who is the current Chief Whip of the Senate and others, was in December last year, …

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, led the members of the Economic Sustainability Committee in an interaction this afternoon with the leadership of the National Assembly on the draft Sustainability Plan, ahead of the submission of the Plan to the President. The virtual meeting, anchored from the Presidential Villa, was attended by the Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives …

Edo State Government reacted on Friday to the steady rise in number of confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID) in the state, restating call for residents to support its efforts at containing the pandemic.  This it said they should do by observing social distancing and complying with all directives against the spread of the virus, including compulsory use of facemasks and …

The Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has named the Chairman of Northern Governors’ Forum and Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong; Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Senator Ehigie Uzamere, to reconcile members-elect in the Edo State House of Assembly. In a statement, the governor said the constitution of the reconciliation committee is part of moves to …