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… promises to train, empower over 500 female rural farmers Wife of Edo State Governor Mrs. Betsy Obaseki has expressed her readiness to partner, train and provide soft loans to over five hundred members of a Non- Governmental Organisation, Women in the New Nigeria, on their Farmer’s Mart initiative towards ensuring that their farm produce meet the quality for export. …

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said the claim by Zamfara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, that security agencies failed to respond to the alert given them to prevent the massacre of people in Zamfara has vindicated him. Fayose said the statement had validated his stance that no extra $1bn was needed to be deducted from the Excess Crude Oil …

The governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has hailed Air Peace pilot for saving the lives of passengers when cows taking over the Airport runway in Akure on Saturday. The Governor on his Twitter handle said that he witnessed cows taking over the airport runway and preventing aircraft No. 5NBQQ from landing for more than 15 minutes and thanks to …

The Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that he will never keep his mouth shut whenever he sees things going wrong in the country. Obasanjo, however, said that when a leader in the country has vision, then that things will relatively be right because such a leader would take the right steps and make right policies especially …

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Benin City, Nigeria – Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has lauded the United Kingdom’s new legislation, Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWO), which empowers courts in the UK to seize assets of foreigners in the country with questionable source of funding. At the same time, the organization called on Nigeria to leverage on this legislation …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has visited former President Goodluck Jonathan at his home in Bayelsa State. Jonathan and his wife, Patience, welcomed the elder statesman who was in their home for a private dinner. Earlier before the visit, Obasanjo inaugurated a government specialist hospital in the state and unveiled the Bayelsa Heliport which was renamed after the first military administrator …

As the Nigerian Peace Corps battles the Nigeria Police to vacate its national secretariat, the legality of the organisation might have run into trouble as the President has not assented to its establishment bill, which was transmitted to him last year. We learnt from competent sources that President Muhammadu Buhari, apparently bowing to security advice, has not appended his signature …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday dispatched the Minister of Defence, Brig.-Gen. Mansur Dan-Ali (retd.), to Zamfara State for an on-the-spot assessment of the situation in Birane village, Zurmi Local Government Area of the state, where some innocent persons were killed on Thursday. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said this in a statement …

Following the forced resignation of Jacob Zuma as the President of South Africa, owing to corruption allegations, the Imo State government says the statue it erected in honour of the embattled ex-President will not be pulled down. Okorocha had in October hosted Zuma in Owerri, where his statue was unveiled; a chieftaincy title was conferred on him and a major …

Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State has accused security agencies in the country of failing to prevent killings in his state despite alerting them about an impending attack 24 hours before the recent invasion of communities in Zurmi Local Government Area of the state, which resulted in the death of 39 persons. Speaking on Friday evening when he led five …