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…claims of discrimination, anointed candidates false -Azebamwan Edo State Commissioner for Communication and Orientation, Hon. Paul Ohonbamu, has described the issues raised by the state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on the planned local government election in the state as irrelevant and unconvincing and declared the PDP as “too depleted and afraid of facing the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the …

Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday resolved to challenge the recent amendment of the Edo state local government Electoral law by the State House of Assembly even as it condemned the composition of the state electoral commission. Edo State Chairman of the party, Chief Dan Osi Orbih addressing reporters after a stakeholders meeting at the Party secretariat in Benin City, …

…Benin Monarch tasks WHO on R&D to curb malaria epidemic in Africa The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has pledged support for immunisation of children against measles scheduled to hold in March, calling on his Palace chiefs and religious leaders to drive the sensitisation programme in their communities to ensure an effective outing. Oba Ewaure stated this during a …

House of Representatives, yesterday, at plenary, resolved to summon Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, to explain the renewed payment of oil subsidy to marketers without securing the approval of the National Assembly, in line with the constitution. Also invited for the same reason are Group Managing Director, GMD, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Maikanti Baru, and Executive …

Simona Mangiante never expected that a flirtation that began on LinkedIn would lead to a subpoena to appear before federal agents working for Robert Mueller, the US special counsel leading an investigation into Donald Trump and the Kremlin. But the knock on her door arrived last October, on the day that Mangiante’s boyfriend, George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign foreign …

At last, the House of Representatives, yesterday, passed the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, PIGB, which provides for the governance and institutional framework for the petroleum industry and for other related matters, after third reading. The 13 years old 191-page bill (a segment of the entire Bill), seeks to unbundle the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, provides for the establishment of …

The Federal Government, yesterday, explained that many parts of the country continued to witness power outage occasionally because only 5,000 megawatts of the 7,000mw generated go to the national grid. power Consequently, the Federal Executive Council, FEC, approved a policy framework that will attract fresh investment for improved distribution infrastructure in the sector to utilise the redundant 2,000mw of electricity …

President Muhammadu Buhari has formally reacted to the release of the 2019 election timetable and schedule of activities by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, warning actors in the political space against a resort to violence in an attempt to sway electoral support, or in the event that they are rejected at the polls. This was as he said his …

Three suspects in connection with the bomb blast that killed one person on Monday in Okpella, Etsako Local Government Area of Edo State have been arrested and paradad by Edo State Police Command. The suspects are also alleged to have assembled the bomb. Edo State Police Command said there is no course for alarm as it has commenced full scale …

A property allegedly belonging to the former first lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, was, yesterday, demolished by Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Development Control Department. The building, at A. Aruera Reachout Foundation/Women For Change and Development Initiative, was situated on Shehu Yar’Adua Way along Mabushi-Kado Life Camp Expressway, Abuja. Emmanuel Anene, a lawyer with E. A, Ezugwu and Associates, told NAN that …