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Nigeria’s Sports Icon, who represented his country in the High Jump Event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, and won Bronze Medal for Nigeria in one of the Commonwealth Games held in Vancouver, Canada, Sr. Apostle Nafiu Belo-Osagie, has passed on. He was 90 years old. Until his death, Pa Belo-Osagie was the Okaigbe of the famous Oloke …

The Independent National Electoral Commission has begun the distribution of electoral materials for the rescheduled general elections in Edo State to the 18 local government areas of the state. The first batch of the materials left the Benin branch of the Central Bank of Nigeria in a blue truck at about 9:30am. The truck was accompanied by some buses conveying …

Anti-corruption operatives in Abuja are currently grilling the Assistant Director of Finance at the country’s secret police agency otherwise known as the SSS, Kunle Kadri, for alleged fraud and mismanagement, inside sources at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have told PREMIUM TIMES. Mr Kadri, an accountant and a financial manager, was whisked from his home Tuesday in handcuffs …

The federal government has declared Friday, February 22, as public holiday ahead of the presidential and National Assembly elections holding on Saturday, Vanguard reports. This was contained in a statement by the Ministry of Interior on Wednesday. “The Federal Government declares Friday, February 22, 2019 as work-free day. Those providing essential duties and bankers are excluded,” the statement said. “The …

Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has expressed deep sadness over the passing of the Okuokpellagbe of Okpella, Alhaji Dr. Andrew Yesufu Eshioroamhe Dirisu, JP, OON. Obaseki noted that the Okuokpellagbe worked tirelessly with other royal fathers for the growth and development of the state, particularly, Okpella land. “Since I received the news of the passing of the Okuokpellagbe, I …

Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission says “only an Act of God” can stop the conduct of the rescheduled Presidential and National Assembly election slated for Saturday. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu stated this in Abuja while addressing a cross-section of the diplomatic community and international election monitoring groups in Nigeria, for the 2019 General Election. …

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, has reported plans by President Muhammadu Buhari to ‘use’ the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to postpone the forthcoming elections in Borno, Adamawa and Kaduna states. Mr Abubakar in a statement signed by a spokesperson, Phrank Shaibu, on Tuesday, alleged that the plot was hatched at a closed-door meeting …

The Presidential candidate of the National Interest Party, NIP, Eunice Atuejide, has withdrawn from the race. This came barely twenty eight days, when the former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili made her own announcement from the race. Disclosing this in a statement, Atuejide opined that she stepped down from the election because her race for the presidency was programmed to …

The Federal Government of Nigeria has directed the immediate payment of February salaries to workers. This, it said, is to financially enable workers wishing to travel to vote in Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly election to do so. The announcement was made by the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, while briefing journalists at the end of the meeting of the …

Benin City – The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Edo State Council, has condemned the unabated cult-related killings ravaging Benin City and called on security agencies to step up action to end the scourge. In a statement co-signed by its Chairman and Secretary, Sir Roland Osakue and Titus Akhigbe respectively in Benin City on Tuesday, the Council described the development as “unwarranted killings​ …