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Interior Board Promotes 10 Officers to Top Levels Across Services The Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Prisons Services Board (CDFIPB) has released the promotion of ten (10) officers from the rank of Assistant Controllers/Commandants and Comptrollers –General (ACGs) to the rank of Deputy Controllers/Commandants and Comptrollers-General (DCGs) across its four Services. The Board in compliance with its guidelines on Appointment, …

…seeks blessings of Oba Ewuare II The 13-man House of Representatives ad-hoc Committee set up to investigate the alleged issues at the Edo State House of Assembly, on Friday arrived Benin City to meet with disagreeing parties, assuring that the issues at the Assembly will be resolved quickly. Speaking to journalists at the Benin Airport, Chairman of the Committee, Alhaji …

Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has distanced himself and the state government from the activities of a group known as Obaseki Volunteer Movement (OVM), cautioning anyone who deals with the organisation to be aware that the group is acting on its own accord and is independent of the Edo State Government. In a statement by the Special Adviser to …

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday night pleaded with the leadership of the National Assembly to give him more time for him to compile list of ministerial nominees. President Buhari also told the presiding and principal officers of the nation’s federal legislative arm of government that he was under pressure to nominate members of his cabinet. This is as the Senate President, …

The Senate said yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari was yet to make a list of ministerial nominees available to it. Chairman, Senate Committee Chairman on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Adedayo Adeyeye, who disclosed this, said that they were anxious to receive and work on the ministerial nominees list. Adeyeye spoke 24 hours after President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad …

The federal government has approved N208 billion as the 2019 intervention funds for public institutions across the country. The reinstated TETFund Executive Secretary, Suleiman Bogoro, made this known at the annual meeting with officials of TETFund and beneficiary institutions in Abuja on Thursday. According to Mr Bogoro, the annual direct disbursement of N826.7 million was allocated to each university, N566.7 million …

Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State claimed vindication on Wednesday, that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) government of Godwin Obaseki now agrees with its position that the five-star Benin Central Hospital project is “classic fraud-ridden scam.” The PDP traced the alleged fraud from what it called “the unadvertised without due process award of the contract, to the …

An agent of the main opposition party from Borno State has told the Presidential election petition tribunal that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) connived with the ruling All Progressives Congress to ensure a fraudulent increase of over 1,000 polling units in the state, during the February elections. The witness, Nickolas Shediza, a state collation agent for the Peoples Democratic …

Ghana is the latest country to be granted a visa-free status by the South African government. South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs has added Ghana to a list of seven countries whose nationals will be permitted to enter South Africa visa-free. Nigeria was not included despite the large volume of trade between the two countries. South Africa announced in September …

President Muhammadu Buhari has requested the confirmation of Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria. Mr Buhari’s request was contained in a letter read at the start of Senate plenary on Thursday. Mr Muhammad was first appointed in January after the president controversially suspended Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen, who was accused of false declaration of asset. Following the recommendation, …