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Green Energy International Limited (GEIL), Operator of the Otakikpo Marginal Field, has said that power generation would soon commence from its initial six megawatts gas to power facility being constructed on its operational base in Ikuru Town in Rivers state, as the facility is nearing completion. In a statement in Abuja, Chairman of the company, Professor Anthony Adegbulugbe, said the …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki; his Delta State counterpart, Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa; former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and President, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick joined other eminent Nigerians to pay their last tribute to foremost civil engineer, late James Okpako Edevbie. Members of Edo State Executive Council who were part of Governor Obaseki entourage at the funeral service …

*Adds: Its modernization by Buhari Administration will provide linkages, job creation, & more *After riding the Lagos-Ibadan train from Iju to Kajola, VP performs ground-breaking of wagon assembly plant in Kajola, Ogun State “This ceremony is not just another event, it is a historic turning point, for us, the railway is not just an alternative and comfortable mode of travel, it holds …

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. …