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Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has assured that the state’s ‘Priority Response Plan to End Violence Against Children,’ will strengthen measures to check violence against children and protect them from abuse. Obaseki who was represented by his deputy, Rt. Hon. Philip Shaibu, at the launching of the “Edo State Priority Response Plan to End Violence Against Children (E-VAC),’ in …

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said the examination mode for blind candidates for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination was likely to be conducted by dictation, as was done in 2017. Head, Media and Information, JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, gave the hint in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Lagos. Benjamin was speaking against …

Kaduna State Government has announced tax waiver for public secondary and primary school teachers in the state. The state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Malam Jafaru Sani, disclosed this at a press briefing on Thursday in Kaduna. Sani said that the government would from March 2018 stop the deduction of Pay As You Earn from the salaries teachers until …

The Central Bank of Nigeria has directed banks and other financial institutions to settle customers’ complaints on issues of overcharge, unauthorised deductions and other matters within two weeks. The CBN Head of Complaints Management Division, Mr. Tajudeen Ahmed, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja. He said the CBN would ensure that …

A national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has accused the national chairman of the party, John Odigie-Oyegun, of sabotage. Tinubu made the allegation in a letter written to the president, vice-president, senate president and speaker of the house of representatives and dated February 21, 2018, reports online news platform, TheCable. President Muhammadu Buhari had appointed …

Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has called on linguists, communicators and other stakeholders to devise viable approaches for preserving Nigeria’s indigenous languages to engender social integration and allow for members of different ethnic groups have solid claims to their unique identities. Governor Obaseki made the call on the occasion of the commemoration of the International Mother Language Day marked …

No Lassa Fever death has been recorded in the past two weeks at the Institute of Lassa Fever Control and Research domiciled at the Irrua Specialist Hospital, since equipment purchased by the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration were deployed to the Institute, the Edo State government has said. In a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor …

Edo State branch of the Peoples Democratic (PDP) has again hammered the All Progressives Congress government, accusing it of large scale fraud in the heartbeat of the nation. PDP’s accusation centers on some key areas, including the Central Hospital project in Benin, whose budgeted sum of money, it alleged was diverted to Specialist Hospital, Iyamoh, the country home of former …

Donald Trump has said he will consider a proposal to arm school teachers in an attempt to prevent mass shootings, a move certain to prove fiercely divisive. The US president, holding a listening session at the White House with survivors of last week’s Florida school shooting and others affected by gun violence, claimed that allowing airline pilots to carry and …

Some huddled in small groups, comforting each other through their tears and clutching pillows they had brought for the long journey ahead. Others were angry and defiant, shouting their demands for gun reform as they boarded the buses. But as a vanguard of about 100 students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school prepared to take their fast-growing #NeverAgain campaign from …