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The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has been impeached. He was impeached this morning by eight lawmakers of the Benue state House of Assembly under the All Progressives Congress, APC. The lawmakers served the governor an impeachment notice this morning after a meeting at the state Assembly complex on Monday, 30th July, 2018. Ortom’s aide, Tahav Agerzua who confirmed the …

A Nigerian senator who was feared kidnapped earlier this week has provided a blow-by-blow account of his unpleasant experience to PREMIUM TIMES. Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West Senatorial District, was widely assumed to have been abducted after his associates claimed he ran into unknown assailants as he travelled towards Kogi State. One of his Senate colleagues, Ben Murray-Bruce, who alerted …

Anti-corruption group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has urged the United Nations to prevail upon the National Assembly to drop its press council bill, which it described as a major threat to media independence and diversity in the country. In a statement on Sunday by its Deputy Director, Timothy Adewale, SERAP noted that the bill had passed second reading at …

Qatar’s successful, controversy-plagued bid to host the 2022 World Cup has been hit by further allegations that they used a secret “black operations” propaganda campaign to undermine rival bids in violation of FIFA rules, according to The Sunday Times. The newspaper — which also made allegations in 2014 about Qatar buying the vote but of which they were subsequently cleared …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki’s call for support in empowering Edo youth to become more productive, has been heeded by more public-spirited groups, who have stepped up empowerment programmes for youths in the state. Governor Obaseki had, in several meetings with civil society organisations and diaspora groups called for increased participation of well-meaning Nigerians and friends of the country …

Early testing for Hepatitis and an aggressive and sustained grassroots sensitization on the danger of the disease would reduce the deaths from what experts describe as “one of the biggest global health threats of our time,” Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, said on Friday. The Governor gave the advice on the occasion of the commemoration of World Hepatitis Day, …

Finally, after much persuasion from majority of the stakeholders in the state, Governor Samuel Ortom midweek took a rather bold political step by defecting from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, after months of protracted face-off with the leader of the party in the state. Suffice it to state here that the governor’s defection …

The Benin Electricity Distribution Company has said that Edo State received the highest share of power allocated to the company from the national grid for distribution to its states of operation. It said that while it had improved power supply from two hours in 2013 to six to 10 hours in locations with severe infrastructure limitations, customers in areas with …

Thirteen out of the 23 local government chairmen in Benue State have dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC). They subsequently moved to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The local government bosses also pledged their loyalty to the state governor, Samuel Ortom after a meeting with the governor on Saturday in Makurdi. Their defection comes days after Governor Ortom, announced his …

…As Saraki, Adeyeye, Yerima, absent at meeting. Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki; Senate Chief Whip, Prof. Sola Adeyeye, and former governor of Zamfara State, Sani Yerima, were absent as the Senate caucus of All Progressives Congress, APC, paid a solidarity visit on President Muhammadu Buhari at the First Lady Conference Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja, Wednesday night. This is even as …