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By MIKE OSAROGIAGBON A blazing fire engulfed a private gas plant in Benin City, Edo State of Nigeria on Sunday morning Nigerian time, leaving four persons burnt and some property destroyed. Responses from the operatives of Edo State Fire Service and some motorists with fire extinguishers prevented the fire from consuming residential buildings around the gas plant, along the densely …

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, Sunday said they are working with the fear of God to return to power in 2019, insisting that the Coalition for Nigeria Movement was not a threat to the party. Secondus who stated this while fielding questions from newsmen at the Asaba Airport to hold meetings with PDP Governors …

Associates of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, insisted that the issues of non-performance raised by the former President against the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari are real, contrary to the claims by some sympathisers of the regime. “We know that, as a nation, we can do better than we currently do. So let us focus on the issues and how to …

Erstwhile military dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari not to allow his own personal ambition for second term to override national interest. IBB said, come 2019 and beyond, Nigerians should raise a new breed leadership with requisite capacity to manage its diversities and jump-start a process of launching the country on the super highway of technology-driven …

Amid swirling partisan rancor in Washington, mere days after Donald Trump appealed for unity in his State of the Union address, the president fired yet another broadside at special counsel Robert Mueller and the investigation into Russian election meddling. In a Saturday morning tweet, Trump continued to attack the FBI, claiming a contentiously published memo as supposed proof that the …

The renaming of Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo (FUNAI), in Ebonyi after the late Second Republic Vice President Alex Ekwueme has generated mixed reactions from stakeholders. Newsmen report that Vice President Yemi Osibanjo announced the renaming of the university during the funeral service for the late elder statesman on Friday at Oko, Anambra. Some of the stakeholders who spoke with newsmen …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has called for scientists across the globe working on the cure for cancer to intensify efforts in the discovery of an urgent cure for the illness to bring succour to those suffering from the ailment. He also made a case for urgent action by relevant stakeholders in the health sector on cancer management while …

By Alltimepost.com Rival Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has condemned what it called the neglect and increment in fees of Ambrose Ali University (AAU) by the State Government. The state chairman of the party, Chief Dan Orbih, during his party’s meet the people tour 2018 of Esan West Local Government Area recently lashed out at the Obaseki administration, …

Edo State Government has described as barefaced lie, the claim by the Edo Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that work on Ekpoma Market Road in Edo Central Senatorial District has been put on hold. The Special Adviser to Governor Godwin Obaseki on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr Crusoe Osagie, said: “The Ekpoma Market Road project is ongoing. “The Edo PDP’s circus …

When late Mrs. Vivian Rafatu Ajibua, 61, employed one Felix Simon, 25 as a gateman in her private residence in the Government Reservation Area (GRA), Benin City seven months ago, she never knew that it was an employment of her own death. The gateman had on Sunday, January 28, 2018 at about 3: am raised an alarm that fire had …