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…inaugurates Uhunmwode devt committee today …Orhionmwon devt committee to interface with govt, monitor projects Edo state government is in talks with the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and the Edo State Oil and Gas Producing Areas Development Commission (EDSOPADEC) on the reconstruction of the Benin-Abraka Road, Governor Godwin Obaseki disclosed on Thursday. Obaseki made the disclosure during a town hall …

Benin City, Nigeria – Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), together with a handful of members of constituted Working Group on Accountable Asset Return will be attending the Asset Recovery side event on June 7, 2018 in Vienna Austria. Organizers, including the United States and United Kingdom believe that the June 7 meeting would offer an opportunity to …

President Muhammadu Buhari has announced the cancellation of May 29 as the country’s annual Democracy Day. Instead, the President said the annual celebration will now hold on June 12, arguing that June 12, 1993 — the date of the election popularly adjudged to be the freest and fairest in Nigeria’s history — “was far more symbolic of democracy in the …

Contractors handling the construction of the Benin Technology Hub and the preliminary work at the site of the 1800 housing-unit Emotan Estate are working round the clock to deliver the projects on schedule, preparatory to the visit of Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo to Edo State. The Vice President’s June 14 visit will see him commission the first Benin Innovation …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, said his administration has taken deliberate steps to re-position the state as an agro-based industrial hub in the nation that specialises in rubber, cocoa and oil palm produce. He stated this while planting the first rubber tree at Urhonigbe Rubber Plantation in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State, on Wednesday. Obaseki disclosed that …

The Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, on Tuesday, said the country’s democracy will die if the National Assembly is turned to rubber stamp. He also noted that he was perturbed that the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has remained silent in the face of what he termed clear acts of aggression against the legislature and the judiciary in recent …

The relationship between the legislature and the Executive hit the lowest point today with a stern warning by the National Assembly to the Presidency to stop the harassment and intimidation of its perceived opponents and persons with contrary opinions particularly the legislators and judiciary by the security agencies. Similarly, the lawmakers, who met in Abuja today in joint session, gave …

Yesterday, in Geneva, Switzerland, told delegates at the ongoing International Labour Conference, ILC, that employers of labour in public and private sectors had been barred from sacking women from work due to their marital or maternity status. Speaking for Nigeria, Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, also announced that the Nigerian government would soon begin the enforcement of …

The National Logistic Committee on Distribution of Relief Materials has donated relief items to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) being accommodated in Edo State. Assistant Controller General of Customs, Azarema Abdulkadiri, disclosed this when he led members of the committee on a courtesy visit to Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki at Government House, Benin City. Noting that the donation marks …

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals, Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire has called on stakeholders to support the drive to beat the unending pollution caused by inappropriate disposal of plastic materials. Speaking at the commemoration of the 2018 World Environment Day celebration with the theme: ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’ Orelope-Adefulire said that plastic pollution has become an epidemic …