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Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has charged the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, to ensure a 48-hour turn-around time for approval of building plans in the state within the next two months. Obaseki gave the directive while speaking at a two-day workshop organised by the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, themed: “Strengthening the Institutional Framework …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has justified its apology to Nigerians on the need to chart a pathway to national healing, renewal of hope and re-mobilization of the citizenry for the task of rescuing the nation from the pains inflicted on them by the ruling party. The PDP said that as a responsible party with the interest of Nigerians at …

On a day mixed reactions continued to trail the advice of former Defence Minister, Lt. General T.Y. Danjuma (retd), to Nigerians to defend themselves against herdsmen to avoid what he described as ethnic cleansing, some Taraba residents, yesterday, alleged that operatives of Ayem A’Kpatuma (Cat Race) military operation were aiding killer herdsmen in the state and harassing people. However, the …

The Federal Government has asked the Peoples Democratic Party to completes its apology to Nigerians by returning all the alleged funds looted from the public treasury during its 16 years in power. In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, also challenged the party to show the genuineness of its apology …

President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the National Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress to reverse its decision granting a tenure extension for party executives at all levels. Buhari asked the party’s NEC to henceforth avoid taking decisions capable of leading the party into playing into the hands of the opposition. He said this in his opening remarks at the …

“They gunned him down like a dog,” Stevante Clark said of the police shooting of his brother, Stephon. “They executed him.” Stevante was in the back seat of a car, his voice quivering. He stomped his feet 20 times – one for each bullet that police fired at his unarmed brother. “Twenty times. That’s like stepping on a roach. And …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has unveiled plans to build three General Hospitals in the three Senatorial Districts of the state, assuring medical personnel of improved working conditions for an effective and efficient healthcare system in the state. The governor gave the assurance when he received executive members of the Association of Resident Doctors with the Edo State Hospital …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday in Abuja, apologised to Nigerians for the mistakes the party made while in power. National Chairman of the party, Mr Uche Secondus, made the apology at a public national discourse on “Contemporary Governance in Nigeria.” On behalf of the party, Secondus apologised to Nigerian for impunity, imposition of candidates and other mistakes made …

Realising that the only Dapchi girl still in Boko Haram captivity was not released contrary to what the IGP earlier said Nigerians may expect, the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has attempted to walk back his statement by claiming he was misquoted. Mr. Idris had on Saturday afternoon said Leah Sharibu, the Christian girl whom Boko Haram refused to free …

The day we had been thinking about for six weeks was finally here: we were going make history, and we were also going to document it. Since the shooting that killed 14 students and three staff members at our school in Parkland, Florida, on 14 February, my classmates and I have been working relentlessly, day and night, to make sure …