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Senate President, Bukola Saraki says he has tendered his response to the Police on the Investigation into the Offa bank robbery incident. Saraki said on Thursday that his written response to the Police on the robbery incident was in compliance to the demand of the Police that he should put down his response in writing. The Police had earlier asked …

My father would not have rejected the award –Mohammed Fawehinmi The family of late human rights activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, on Thursday thanked the Federal Government for its decision to give its patriarch a national award. The first son of the late lawyer, Mr. Mohammed Fawehinmi, expressed the family’s gratitude in an interview. President Muhammadu Buhari in a statement he …

Edo State Commissioner for Energy and Water Resources, Hon. Yekini Idaiye, has said that the European Union-United Nations Children’s Fund (EU-UNICEF) Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) project under the Niger Delta Support Programme (NDSP) has been extended to three more local government areas in the state. Idaiye said this at a one-day sensitisation programme organised for stakeholders in the three …

…inaugurates Uhunmwode devt committee today …Orhionmwon devt committee to interface with govt, monitor projects Edo state government is in talks with the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and the Edo State Oil and Gas Producing Areas Development Commission (EDSOPADEC) on the reconstruction of the Benin-Abraka Road, Governor Godwin Obaseki disclosed on Thursday. Obaseki made the disclosure during a town hall …

Benin City, Nigeria – Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), together with a handful of members of constituted Working Group on Accountable Asset Return will be attending the Asset Recovery side event on June 7, 2018 in Vienna Austria. Organizers, including the United States and United Kingdom believe that the June 7 meeting would offer an opportunity to …

President Muhammadu Buhari has announced the cancellation of May 29 as the country’s annual Democracy Day. Instead, the President said the annual celebration will now hold on June 12, arguing that June 12, 1993 — the date of the election popularly adjudged to be the freest and fairest in Nigeria’s history — “was far more symbolic of democracy in the …

Contractors handling the construction of the Benin Technology Hub and the preliminary work at the site of the 1800 housing-unit Emotan Estate are working round the clock to deliver the projects on schedule, preparatory to the visit of Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo to Edo State. The Vice President’s June 14 visit will see him commission the first Benin Innovation …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, said his administration has taken deliberate steps to re-position the state as an agro-based industrial hub in the nation that specialises in rubber, cocoa and oil palm produce. He stated this while planting the first rubber tree at Urhonigbe Rubber Plantation in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State, on Wednesday. Obaseki disclosed that …

The Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, on Tuesday, said the country’s democracy will die if the National Assembly is turned to rubber stamp. He also noted that he was perturbed that the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has remained silent in the face of what he termed clear acts of aggression against the legislature and the judiciary in recent …

The relationship between the legislature and the Executive hit the lowest point today with a stern warning by the National Assembly to the Presidency to stop the harassment and intimidation of its perceived opponents and persons with contrary opinions particularly the legislators and judiciary by the security agencies. Similarly, the lawmakers, who met in Abuja today in joint session, gave …