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By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Benin City, Nigeria – Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), has lamented the fraud recently uncovered at the Social Investment Programme and called on the Buhari administration to carry out a full scale investigation with a view to bringing all suspects to book. The Social Investment Programme of the Federal government of Nigeria was …

Unsure whether he would be a victim or survivor of the mass shooting taking place outside his Florida classroom, 14-year-old Aidan Minoff sent an eight-word tweet “I am in a school shooting right now … ” Aidan said, before the world knew the day would end with 17 students and teachers dead. Tens of thousands of people locked onto Aidan’s …

Edo City Transport Service Limited (ECTS) Managing Director, Mrs. Edugie Agbonlahor has said plans by the state government to build modern bus terminals in Benin City, would facilitate the development of an integrated transport system for the state’s mass transit scheme. Agbonlahor disclosed this during an interview with journalists in Benin City, Edo State capital. She disclosed that the adoption …

Two Policemen involved in the incident at Upper Igun area of Benin City that led to the alleged killing of a cab driver, David Okoniba, have appeared before the Justice Joseph Olubor-led Administrative Panel of Inquiry to give testimony of their involvement in the fracas which led to a clash between the Police and some youths in the state. The …

National Chairman of the National Rescue Movement (NRM), Alhaji Sa’idu Dansadau has urged Nigerians not to vote for corrupt politicians in 2019. Dansadau, who was a former Senator, made the call while addressing supporters of the party in Kano on Saturday. “No corrupt politicians should be voted in the upcoming general elections in 2019 as anybody found to have stolen …

The plot against America began in 2014. Thousands of miles away, in a drab office building in St Petersburg, Russia, a fake newsroom was under construction with its own graphics, data analysis, search engine optimisation, IT and finance departments. Its mission: ”information warfare against the United States of America”. What followed, according to an indictment brought by the US special …

… promises to train, empower over 500 female rural farmers Wife of Edo State Governor Mrs. Betsy Obaseki has expressed her readiness to partner, train and provide soft loans to over five hundred members of a Non- Governmental Organisation, Women in the New Nigeria, on their Farmer’s Mart initiative towards ensuring that their farm produce meet the quality for export. …

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said the claim by Zamfara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, that security agencies failed to respond to the alert given them to prevent the massacre of people in Zamfara has vindicated him. Fayose said the statement had validated his stance that no extra $1bn was needed to be deducted from the Excess Crude Oil …

The governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose has hailed Air Peace pilot for saving the lives of passengers when cows taking over the Airport runway in Akure on Saturday. The Governor on his Twitter handle said that he witnessed cows taking over the airport runway and preventing aircraft No. 5NBQQ from landing for more than 15 minutes and thanks to …

The Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that he will never keep his mouth shut whenever he sees things going wrong in the country. Obasanjo, however, said that when a leader in the country has vision, then that things will relatively be right because such a leader would take the right steps and make right policies especially …