Edo State Government, on Friday, commenced the payment of N20,000 monthly stipend to four sets of Libya returnees in the state. Speaking at Idia College, in Benin City, where the returnees converged to receive the stipends, Chairman, Edo State Taskforce Against Human Trafficking, Prof. Yinka Omorogbe, said the stipend would be paid for three months. Prof. Omorogbe said “When the …
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By Alltimepost.com As part of efforts to assure the integrity of food and beverage products available to Edo residents during the Yuletide, Edo State Government has raided and seized substandard and adulterated goods in markets in Benin City, the state capital. The government said the raid was carried out to prevent the flooding of markets with substandard products, especially food …
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The scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly known as petrol, is mainly because of its hoarding and diversion by oil marketers who are pushing for an increase in the price of the commodity, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria has said. It specifically stated that dealers under the aegis of the Major Oil Marketers Association of …
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The Yuletide season in Nigeria is a period synonymous with festivities. It begins with Christmas, which dovetails into the New Year. Christmas, in particular, is an occasion that is wildly celebrated by both Christians and non-Christians as people dine, wine and make merry. But as the years roll by the form and complexion of the celebration has changed considerably. Certain …
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The Commissioner of Police in Niger State, Mr. Dibal Yakadi, on Saturday advised Nigerians against accepting wrapped gifts from strangers during the Christmas and New Year festivities. Yakadi, who gave the advice in Minna, said such gifts could turn out to be parcel bombs and be dangerous if opened. He also urged the people to be security conscious, especially while …
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Anti-Trump protest has taken many forms over the past year, but perhaps none have been so consistent and subtle as Jeff Bergman’s Friday lunchtime vigil in the cavernous, echoing lobby of the 58-storey, 664ft-high glass edifice that is Trump Tower. Just past a Secret Service security checkpoint and more or less opposite the site of an Ivanka Trump store that …
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As fuel queues grew longer at the few filling stations that sold the product in Lagos and Ogun states on Thursday, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation said it noticed the current hiccup in the supply chain a few days ago. Motorists lamented that they had to spend many hours in queues for Premium Motor Spirit (petrol), while some petrol seekers …
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Borno State Government has shelved its plan to declare Friday (today) as a public holiday to mark the capture of Sambisa Forest from the Boko Haram insurgents. The state Commissioner for Home Affairs, Information and Culture, Mohammed Bulama, in a statement issued on Thursday in Maiduguri explained that the holiday was cancelled “on the grounds that since 22ndDecember of this …
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The Senate, the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Eastern consultative Assembly (ECA) yesterday faulted the arrest and detention of the Managing Director of Innoson Motors, Dr. Innocent Chukwuma. The upper chamber, at plenary, mandated its Committee on Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes to investigate the circumstance surrounding the arrest and detention of Chukwuma by EFCC. The committee was also …
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By Alltimepost.com Great Benin Kingdom Royal Majesty, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II has called on traditional rulers in Edo state to embark on public enlightenment of their people in order to tackle the problem of human trafficking in the society. The Benin Monarch who made the call at the inaugural meeting of the reconstituted Edo State Council …
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