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Edo State Government has invited pensioners in batches 54 to 57 for physical and documentary verification in order to process payment of their arrears. In a statement, Permanent Secretary and Chairman, Edo State Pension Bureau, Saylor Juwobor said the exercise was in continuation of payment of pension arrears by the state government. According to the Permanent Secretary, upon the conclusion …

Human rights activists on Saturday commenced a sit-out at the headquarters of Department of State Services in Abuja over the agency’s refusal to release Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare.  The protesters, who were at the facility on Saturday morning to receive the activists, were denied access alongside  one of Sowore’s lawyers, Marshal Abubakar, and some members of his family.  One …

Yaounde, Cameroon (CNN) The US is cutting Cameroon from a trade pact over allegations of human rights violations.President Donald Trump said the West African nation failed to address concerns over its “persistent gross violations of internationally recognized human rights” allegedly committed by Cameroon’s security forces. The US also cut more than $17 million in security aid and support to Cameroon in February …

Twenty eight inmates of the Home for the Needy and Internally Displaced Persons Camp at Uhorgua community in Edo are currently studying various courses at the Edo State University at Iyamho. The Coordinator of the centre, Mr Solomon Folorunsho, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin on Sunday. According to him, eight …

President Muhammadu Buhari at the weekend congratulated Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama on his appointment as the Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja by Pope Francis, following the retirement of John Cardinal Onaiyekan. A statement by presidential spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, said Buhari noted that as the immediate past President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), former Archbishop of Jos, …

A former Minister of State for Defence, Sen. Musiliu Obanikoro, has called for the allocation of adequate fund for education and the enabling environment for the private sector to invest. Obanikoro spoke on Sunday as the Chairman at the 31st Anniversary Reunion Lecture of the Pioneer 1988 Class of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, in Lagos. The News Agency …

A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Bisi Yusuf, says the closure of land borders will end the menace of turning Nigeria to a dumping ground of all kinds of fake and expired products. Yusuf, APC representing Alimosho Constituency 1, made the assertion on Sunday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. …

Nigeria’s Army Council has approved the promotion of 34 Brigadiers-General to the rank of Majors-General and 47 Colonels to the rank of Brigadiers- General respectively. The new promotion was announced in a statement by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, on Sunday in Abuja. Those promoted to the rank of Major General, according to Musa are: Brigadiers-General. …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Amidst corruption scandal rocking its foundation, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is soliciting police partnership to execute some projects in Edo State. The Commission said security challenge was negatively affecting execution of its projects in some areas in the state. Director of NDDC, Edo State Mr. Gbubemi Ogor stated this when he led some of his …

Obviously defiant to his adversaries, Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has indicated his readiness to pay the ultimate price in the service of the people of the state. Obaseki stressed that as long as the mandate of the governor, which he carries was divinely given by God for the service of the people, Edo State is therefore worth dying …