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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 …

Rocio Fuentes weighed up the cost of getting some new sofas for her new apartment in Pasadena, Texas, and decided the family budget could just about stretch to it. Just one month after moving in, Hurricane Harvey swept through and the Fuenteses were left not only with the ruined furniture but also an ongoing rental demand for a dwelling they …

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in Daura, Katsina State, assured Nigerians that he would deploy the grace of his recovery to serve the country with renewed strength. Buhari who described his recovery from illness as the act of the Almighty God said he returned to the country with renewed hope and strength to pursue policies that would improve the livelihood of …

Despite the conviction and sentencing to death of some criminals by several courts in the country, no civilian governor has signed the death warrant for the execution of such convicts, thereby leading to the congestion of prisons across the country. The Controller of Prisons in Niger State, Alhaji Mohammed Babagana, who disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Minna, …