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MARCH 6, 2018 PRESS RELEASE EDO PDP says “THANK YOU” to EDO PEOPLE. Good people of Edo State, with hope and excitement, we thank you for your support and co-operation over the years. As a political party, we are humbled by the way and manner you responded to our directive to observe Saturday March 3, 2018 as a day of …

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State is optimistic that the emergency meeting summoned by Oba Ewuare II of Great Benin Kingdom with certain categories of people, including priests and native doctors on ways to curb human trafficking, kidnapping and other security challenges in the state will yield the desired results. Obaseki commended the Benin Monarch for the initiative, in a …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has tasked parents and other stakeholders to ensure that children below the age of one are immunized to safeguard them against diseases. Governor Obaseki said this in a broadcast monitored on local television stations in Benin City, Edo State capital, on Wednesday. “Routine immunisation is the regular immunisation given at the health centers to …

By Alltimepost.com Great Benin King, His Royal Majesty, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, Oba of Benin has summoned an emergency meeting to discuss the issues of human trafficking, kidnapping and other security challenges in the state. According to a statement released by the Secretary to the Benin Traditional Council, Mr. Frank Irabor, during the week, the Benin Monarch …

By Alltimepost.com Nigeria’s major opposition party, known as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cried out against what it called the continuous harassment, arrests and detention of its members in various parts of the country. The party has alleged the violation of its members’ human rights by agents and officials of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-controlled Federal Government and sought …

Popular Lagos cleric and political activist, Pastor Tunde Bakare has announced the formation of a new political movement which, according to him, would serve as a platform to champion a new political agenda for Nigeria. Bakare, who ran as a vice presidential candidate to President Muhammadu Buhari under the defunct Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011 presidential election declared …

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday directed that any Fulani man found in possession of AK-47 rifles should be charged to court. The President said this in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital during a visit to the state to commiserate with people that lost loved ones in the wake of violence that engulfed the area recently. Any Fulani man caught with AK-47 …

North Korea is willing to discuss relinquishing its nuclear weapons, and will freeze its nuclear and missile programmes if it begins direct talks with the US, in a dramatic easing of tensions after a visit by senior South Korean politicians. The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, will also meet his South Korean counterpart, Moon Jae-in, in late April in the …

Months after violence claimed hundreds of lives and property worth millions of naira in some parts of the country, President Muhammadu Buhari Monday finally visited Jalingo, the capital of Taraba State, on the first leg of his scheduled visits to the troubled states of Benue, Yobe, Zamfara and Rivers. The president has come under heavy criticism for failing to visit …

The Nigeria Union of Teachers ( NUT ) has pleaded with the Federal government to intervene in the on-going strike by non-teaching staff in universities nationwide. The National President of the union, Comrade Michael Olukoya, made the appeal in an interview with our reporter on Tuesday in Lagos. Labour unions, comprising Senior Staff Association of Universities, Non-Academic Staff Union and …