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As schools resume for third-term after the Easter Holidays, the Federal Government’s National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) and Edo State Government have concluded plans to feed not less than 21,928 pupils in two local government areas in Edo State. Focal Person of the Social Investment Programme in Edo State, Ms. Osayuwamen Aladeshelu, disclosed this in a chat with journalists …

Senate President Bukola Saraki has challenged the leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, to substantiate his allegation that he and other lawmakers have the habit of padding budgets. Mr Saraki, in a statement by his media aide, Yusuph Olaniyonu, said Mr Tinubu’s attack was unfounded and not predicated on facts. The Senate President was reacting to a …

No fewer than a dozen people who said they were deployed as electoral officers by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the 2019 presidential election have admitted under oath that they transmitted results electronically. A question about whether or not results were forwarded to a central database of the commission has been amongst the top grounds for contesting the …

PORT HARCOURT—Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, like his arch political rival, Governor Nyesom Wike, has challenged Rivers State people to rise above partisan acrimony and unite in rebuilding Rivers. Amaechi in his first key public statement after the heated Rivers elections noted the state has endured a “tortuous political season which saw political parties jostle and cajole Rivers people to …

AKURE—Otito Atikase, an aide to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, yesterday, took a swipe at the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and a leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu accusing them of having an expansionist agenda. The National Working Committee, NWC, of the APC had suspended Governor Akeredolu for engaging in anti-party …

In pursuit of the state government’s charge for tertiary institutions to lead the way for innovation in the state, three students of the Edo State Polytechnic, Usen, have developed a mobile software to fast track deployment of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the school’s processes. Rector of the Polytechnic, Prof. Abiodun Falodun, who disclosed this in a chat with …

The seven-year-old had spent just one academic term at his new school in Abuja when he told his mother he would not be returning to the institution, a special facility for children with disability. Using sign language, the boy, born with speech and hearing impairment, said he feared he might be killed. “They will kill me if I return to …

Following credible intelligence report, operatives of the Edo State Police Command, in a major crime burst have arrested four deadly and notorious kidnapping and armed robbery suspects, thereby averting coordinated attacks on police formations in the state. The all-male suspects, who were arrested in Auchi axis of Edo State include: Salihu Uzovehe, 23; Hadi Musa Gambari, 23; Tijani Haruna, 24 …

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a Freedom of Information request to the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) Chairman, Muhammed Isah, urging him to provide information on asset declarations submitted by successive presidents and state governors since the return of democracy in 1999. SERAP is specifically seeking information on: “details of asset declarations by successive presidents and …

President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the appointment of Tanko Muhammad as the acting chief justice of Nigeria by another three months. Mr Buhari sent the recommendation to the National Judicial Council and the supervisory body approved the appointment on Thursday, a spokesperson for the NJC, Soji Oye, said in a statement on Saturday. Mr Muhammad was first appointed in January …