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The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Muhammad Nanono has stated that the ministry would begin agricultural Mmechanization programme in 632 Local Government Areas in the country. The policy, he stated would ensure that Nigeria achieved food security, job creation and economic growth. The minister made this known when he received the Executive Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, …

The government has raised a committee on the matter… The government has set up a committee headed by the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola. But why do we have to wait until sanctions are given? This is most unfortunate. Why is it that we need to be sanctioned before we will learn how to behave? Here in Nigeria when you …

Edo State Government has invited pensioners in batches 58 to 65 for physical and documentary verification in order to process the 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 Governor Godwin Obaseki led-government. He said, “The pensioners are invited to …

Edo State Government has commenced a two-week training programme for the first batch of the 2,500 successful candidates for the Public Safety Works Volunteer Scheme (PUWOV) drawn from the 18 Local Government Areas of the State. The Coordinator of PUWOV, Edo State, Mukhtar Yusuf-Osagie, said aside the physical training, the candidates will undergo trainings by seasoned experts on fundamental human …

Six lucky indigent students of Edo origin who were awarded the Aiyevbvekpen Josephine Sophia Obazee foundation scholarship in 2018, all studying different courses at the University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State of Nigeria have received their checks for the 2019-20 school year. In a statement made available to Altimepost.com, the Executive Director of the Foundation, Mrs. Nosabota listed the …

A Chinese doctor at the Wuhan hospital, who first warned his colleagues of a “strange respiratory illness”, which turned out to be the dreaded Coronavirus, is dead. Li Wenliang, a 34-year-old ophthalmologist, died due to complications from the coronavirus late Thursday evening (Friday morning in China). His death has sparked anger and grief from Chinese citizens on Chinese social media who believed …

Nigeria is the most populous African nation with about 180million people. With this figure comes a huge amount of crime, because people are from different social, religious and financial backgrounds. A huge population makes tracking criminals more difficult and therefore the whole concept of creating a criminal database is essential to aid the criminal justice system. A criminal database keeps …

“Almost all agreements, MoU etc signed by the government of our country are not implemented,” he said. Mr Ajala told this newspaper that 10 per cent of the national budget or more can be allocated to the agriculture sector if there is a willingness on the part of the government. “However, you know everything is politicised here, such allocation would …

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal by the family of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, who had prayed for an order unfreezing some bank accounts of the late dictator and other members of the family held in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Jersey, Liechenstein and Luxembourg. The PUNCH reports that the accounts were frozen in the countries …

Commend INEC on de-registeration of 74 political parties Contrary to the presidential submission that Boko Haram has been decimated, two prominent Nigerians have rather stated that insurgency was on the rise. It will be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari while commissioning two Nigeria Air Force Agusta 109 Power Helicopters and MI-17 E Helicopters at the Eagle Square, Abuja on Thursday …