By Alltimepost.com Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has dismissed the fear looming in some quarters that the ongoing assessment of senior civil servants in the state was designed to fish out incompetent workers for sack, assuring that such fears are baseless. Obaseki who was at Imaguero College, Benin City, venue of the assessment, on Wednesday, said that the exercise …
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By Jim Garamone – DoD News BEIJING — The top military leaders of the United States and China signed an agreement here today that they said will improve communication between their militaries and reduce the chances of miscalculations. Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Fang Fenghui of the Chinese army, chief of …
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Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, on Tuesday charged the state delegation to the 2017 Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to be good ambassadors of the state. Obaseki who gave the charge during a visit to the 260 intending pilgrims at the Hajj Camp on Dumez Road, Benin City, said: “The exercise you are about to embark on is a …
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By Alltimepost.com Edo State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Barr. Anslem Ojezua, on Tuesday said there was no cause to be alarmed over the impeachment and subsequent elections that produced a new speaker and deputy speaker in the state House of Assembly on Monday, August 14, 2017. Mr. Ojezua who gave the assurance on Tuesday at the Government …
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By Alltimepost.com Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Tuesday inaugurated the State Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force, a measure that will proffer a new set of home-grown solutions to the age-long social problem. Obaseki lamented that the state was fast becoming synonymous with human trafficking and charged the taskforce to urgently redeem the state’s image as Edo people do not …
Read More »By Victor Ofure Osehobo Twenty five beneficiaries of Nigeria’s presidential amnesty programme have graduated from the Ogbebor Leadership and Skills Acquisition Academy. The training program is part of efforts to empower ex-agitators from the Niger Delta region and sway them from militant activities. Drawn from Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta States, the trainees were taught courses on rubber technology, products …
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised the youth to democratically wrest leadership from the old guards since they are unwilling to quit the stage. To Obasanjo, leadership positions are never given on a platter of gold. He urged the youth to work for them. The ex – President, who spoke on Saturday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, at the …
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The Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr Babatunde Fowler says with the introduction of Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS), no Nigerian can evade tax payment. Fowler said this at the 138th Quarterly Meeting of the Joint Tax Board (JTB) on Monday in Abuja. The theme of the meeting was “Administering Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) …
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Acagemic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU), has declared indefinite strike over unresolved and contentious issues with the Federal Government The union declared the indefinite strike at a briefing at Labour House, Abuja. The National President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi in a text he read while briefing journalists said, “our members across the country were getting increasingly frustrated, distracted and disenchanted. …
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The leadership of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, weekend, said that it will vehemently resist any attempt or plan by the Buhari-led Federal Government to re-arrest the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in the country. In a statement in Abakaliki,Ebonyi State, leader of MASSOB, Mazi Uchenna Madu, …
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