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· Investments in Agric, Tech, Trade top Agenda Over ten key players in the organised private sector of Singapore as well as state-owned enterprises, met with the Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Friday, in the Asian country, as he intensified his quest for foreign investors and partners to bolster the state’s industrialisation drive. The governor’s meeting with …

Association of Food, Beverages and Tobacco Employers (AFBTE), on Thursday, donated beverages and other items worth about N20 million to victims of the North East crisis, living at the Internally Displaced Persons’ camp in Edo State. The association’s President, Chief Patrick Anegbe, while presenting the items at the Camp, located at Uhogua, Ovia North East Local Government Area of the …

By Alltimepost.com Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has decried the prevalence of obsolete teaching methods in institutions of learning in Nigeria, which he said, accounted in part, for the high figures of illiterate and poorly educated people as against the lower figures in other countries. Obaseki said it was time for policy makers to change the approach to teaching …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has taken his job creation and investment drive to Singapore, where arrangements are being fine-tuned to attract a $50million worth of investment that will create 50, 000 jobs in the state. The deals cover investments in agriculture, specifically, oil palm and cassava to feed the processing plants of a leading Singaporean company, Tolaram Group. …

To guard against corrupt practices, abuse of office and entrench accountability in governance, commissioners, and heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in Edo State have been charged to abide by the provisions of the state’s Procurement Law. This was the submission of experts at the seminar tagged “Essentials in Public Procurement Process and Organisation” organized by the Edo State …

Chanting “Education, not deportation” and holding signs that said “Here to stay”, dozens of Dreamers surrounded the attorneys general of New York and Washington on Wednesday, at separate announcements of a lawsuit against the Trump administration that was joined by 15 states and Washington DC. The suit concerns the president’s decision to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals …

Two people have been injured in a fight that ensued between Students Union Government leaders of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, on Tuesday. During the fight, the Vice President of the union, Miss Jacob Tosin, allegedly broke a bottle and stabbed the Social Director, Adedayo Emmanuel, in the arm. It was learnt that Tosin, who also received a headbutt from …

The National Association of Resident Doctors on Thursday refused to call off its strike despite holding a 13-hour meeting with representatives of the Federal Government. The meeting, which held at the Federal Secretariat in Abuja, ended in the early hours of Thursday, had in attendance the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige; the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole; and the …

Despite the meeting on Thursday (today) between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities to seek an end to the indefinite strike in universities, other unions in the public higher institutions have announced the commencement of their strike by Monday, September 11. The unions, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, and …

Donald Trump thrust the fate of nearly 800,000 young, undocumented migrants into uncertainty on Tuesday by terminating the Obama-era program that protects the so-called Dreamers from deportation. In response, Barack Obama said the decision was “self-defeating” and contrary to “basic decency”. A “shadow has been cast over some of our best and brightest young people once again”, the former president …