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All suspected cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), whose samples were sent for analysis at the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital in Edo State of Nigeria, have tested negative, the state government said on Sunday. Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie, in a statement, said the state government has ensured that measures for testing, tracking and diagnosis of …

In a rare move since the crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress in Edo State began, the state Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has distanced himself from a statement on Friday by his Media Adviser, Mr. Crusoe Osagie, berating governorship hopeful, Engr. Chris Ogiemwonyi Obaseki spoke through his Special Adviser on Political and Community Matters, Chief Osaro Idah who wrote in …

• Killers slit her throat, stomach, heart –Villagers •I don’t know why my daughter was cruelly murdered –Dad Sixty-six-year-old Abiodun Ohiole wholly enjoyed the fufu (staple food) and delicious soup served him by his 20-year-old daughter, Glory, that Saturday at Imwena quarters (near Saint Joseph Catholic Church) in Otuo community in the Owan East Local Government Area of Edo State. It was …

Around 70 people were trapped after the collapse of a hotel used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in eastern China on Saturday evening, officials said. At least 38 people have so far been rescued from the rubble of the 80-room Xinjia hotel in coastal Quanzhou city, said the local government. Footage circulating on microblogging platform Weibo showed rescue workers combing …

The Federal Government says there is no new fresh case from 61 contacts of the index case of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, at a media update on COVID-19 in Abuja on Friday, said the contacts had been monitored since the announcement of the first confirmed case. The virus was brought into the country …

Governors of the six states in North-east Nigeria on Thursday held an unusual regional meeting in Gombe State where they discussed the prevailing security and socio-economic challenges facing their zone. The governors asked their attorneys general to meet with security agencies and work out an approach to enhance regional security within the ambits of the law. The governors of Adamawa, …

Two persons are feared dead and several others injured in Ologbo, Ikpoba-Okha local government area as a result of a clash between Itsekiri and Bini youths in oil-rich Ologbo community in Ikpoba-Okha local government area. The entire community was deserted when journalists visited the community Friday as soldiers were sighted patrolling the place. Commercial activities were paralysed as hostilities resumed …

A Federal High Court in Kano on Thursday ordered the status quo be maintained in the matter regarding the suspension of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole. A Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja on Wednesday granted an interlocutory injunction suspending Mr Oshiomhole from office, based on an application by some members of the …

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Hon. Justice M.B. Dongban Mensem as the Acting President of the Court of Appeal for an initial period of three (3) months, with effect from March 6, 2020, when the incumbent President of the Court of Appeal, Hon. Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, CFR, would statutorily retire from service. Justice Mensem, who is the …

Following the interim suspension of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as the National Chairman of All Progressive Congress, APC by a federal High court in Abuja on Wednesday, APC names new officers. However, the outlines of a power play within the leadership of the party emerged on Wednesday evening as the National Working Committee, NWC, approved the nomination of Waziri Bulama as …