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As an interim measure to forestall further killings and destruction of property, Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has placed a 90-day total ban on grazing in Odighi, Odiguetue communities and environs. Obaseki announced the ban during a meeting with members of Odighi, Owan and Odigwuetue communities at the palace of the Enogie of Odighi Community in Ovia North East …

President Donald Trump declared “mission accomplished” in Friday night’s strike on three Syria targets and argued that it “could not have had a better result.” “A perfectly executed strike last night,” Trump tweeted Saturday. “Thank you to France and the United Kingdom for their wisdom and the power of their fine Military. Could not have had a better result. Mission …

The US, UK and France launched strikes against targets at three sites in Syria in the early hours of Saturday morning, following a week of threats of retaliation for an alleged chemical weapons attack on civilians in the Damascus enclave of Douma. “I ordered the United States armed forces to launch precision strikes on targets associated with the chemical weapon …

Ahmad Salkida, a journalist known to have access to the leadership of the Boko Haram, says only 15 out of the remaining 113 kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls with Abubakar Shekau insurgents group are alive. Salkida made this known in a series of tweet on his official twitter handle, revealing that 98 of the 113 remaining abducted schoolgirls had died as a …

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara has expressed regrets that many of the over 200 Chibok school girls in Borno State were still in captivity 4 years after their abduction by notorious Boko Haram sect. The Speaker made the remarks in commemoration of the 4th year of the girls abduction in Abuja on Saturday. While urging intensified …

Special Adviser to Edo State Governor on Basic Education and Acting Chairman, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Dr. Joan Osa Oviawe, has said that teachers in selected public schools in Benin metropolis will commence teaching with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools from April 23, 2018. Oviawe disclosed this to journalists during the training of teachers at the Samuel …

WASHINGTON — U.S., French and British forces have struck targets in Syria as punishment for Syrian leader Bashar Assad using chemical weapons against his own people. President Donald J. Trump announced the combined force launched precision strikes against the chemical weapons capabilities. The strike against the capabilities is designed to stop Assad from using the banned weapons. This is the …

As part of measures to control illegal migration, human trafficking and other security challenges in Nigeria, the Oba of Benin, Ewuare II has urged course participants of the Institute of Security Studies, Abuja to send a proposal to the federal government on how to control the nation’s porous borders, especially in the North East. Oba Ewuare made the call during …

Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has urged the Federal Character Commission (FCC) to set up a compliance unit that will monitor the distribution of federal government appointments and infrastructural facilities across the country, in line with the principle of federal character. Obaseki made the call on Thursday, at the commission’s seminar for South-South Zone, with the theme: “The Spread …

Donald Trump declared James Comey “a weak and untruthful slime ball” on Friday in response to a new book, in which the former director of the FBI caricatures him as a mafia don, and claimed: “It was my great honor to fire James Comey!” “James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR,” the president tweeted. “Virtually everyone in Washington thought …