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The Police Command in Bayelsa State has dismissed a sergeant Timadi Emmanuel, who allegedly shot and killed Tariela Nikadae, a 20-year-old undergraduate of Petro-Chemical Engineering, Niger Delta University, Yenagoa. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that on Nov. 23, Sgt. Emmanuel, attached to a patrol team in Akenfa Division, while on patrol on Tenacious Road, Edepie, Yenagoa, allegedly shot Nikadae …

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is presiding over the Federal Executive Council meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He does so in the absence of President Muhammadu Buhari, who has travelled to Maiduguri, Borno State. Buhari will be attending the annual Chief of Army Staff Conference, holding in Maiduguri.

All Edo sons and daughters in Diaspora have been charged to mobilise themselves to actively participate in the Annual Ugie Festival in Benin Kingdom. The charge was given by His Royal Majesty, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, Oba of Benin when he received a delegation of Edo Association of Nigeria in Germany in the Oba Palace. The Benin …

…Tells House of Reps that Edo doesn’t want a ‘failed, unserious’ DISCO Mild drama ensued at the office of the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Tuesday, as the governor walked the Managing Director (MD) of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC), Mrs. Funke Osibodu, out of his office for failing to meet obligations to electricity consumers in Edo …

Akwa Ibom state house of Assembly is currently on fire as the house members and the 5 sacked lawmakers of the All Progressives Cingress engage in battle at the assembly premises. There is serious gunfire by security men as the youths try to pursue Nse Ntuen, the factional Speaker and other four out of the chambers and assembly premises. It …

A new person will govern Osun State from Tuesday (today). Gboyega Oyetola will assume the position of the governor from Rauf Aregbesola after a handing over ceremony expected to be held in Osogbo, the state capital. Both men are members of Nigeria’s ruling party, APC. Both also have other things in common: they were both based in Lagos and are …

* …as COAS Annual Conference now hold in Maiduguri President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Edo on Tuesday may have been cancelled as the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Annual Conference, initially billed to hold in Benin City has been shifted to Maiduguri, Borno State. President Buhari’s aide on New Media, Alhaji Bashir Ahmad, confirmed this development on his tweeter handle …

The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, has been under fire for reportedly saying that military the world over does not give information on its casualties. Also, a fact check showed that on the contrary, it is a standard practice by government of developed countries to intimate citizens on the number of casualties …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday declared his support for aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress who opted to sue the party over their grievances against the party. The President said the courts remained the last option for the amicable resolution of disputes, hence he insisted that the party must allow aggrieved members to fully explore their democratic and legal …

Benin City, Nigeria – A dramatic clash between policemen and mourners in procession of vehicles escorting a corpse to funeral venue, has left a man shot to death in Benin City. The victim, identified as Osakpamwan Agbons was shot to dead when his alleged co gun-wielding mourner’s convoy encountered a team of policemen on TV road, Oliha quarters, Benin City, …