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By Alltimepost.com Benin City – Hell was let loose on Thursday at the Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Benin City, Edo State Capital as the supporters of both the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) engaged themselves in a free for all fight allegedly under the watchful eyes of the Nigerian Police Force. The …

There was a rowdy session on Wednesday at the Senate following the dumping of Senator Yele Omogunwa, Ondo South of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for the All Progressives Congress, APC. The development led to all the PDP senators staging a walk out from the chambers to address Journalists in hearing room 2. Soon after Senate President Bukola …

Central Bank of Nigeria Tuesday in Yenagoa said that a 50 kg bag of Nigeria rice is selling in Ebonyi for N8,000. This was disclosed by the Acting Director, Corporate Communication, CBN, Mr Isaac Okoroafor, in Bayelsa State. Speaking at a sensitization workshop for the CBN Anchor programme for farmers, he said: “We should eat Nigerian rice provided for by …

Ado-Ekiti-In a bid to avoid the political booby trap that threw the succession plan of Governor Olusegun Mimiko into disarray and eclipsed the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in the just concluded Ondo governorship election, Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, hinted Wednesday on the possibility of using another platform to prosecute his succession battle during the 2018 governorship poll . …

President-elect says he wants to avoid appearance of conflict of interest once in office, but gives little detail before planned press conference in two weeks.   Donald Trump has announced that he will be stepping away from his business interests “in total” in order to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest once he enters the White House. The …

Workers were waiting to hear details about how many jobs would remain in the US and how the president-elect had persuaded Carrier to keep jobs in the state. Nine months after announcing plans to move more than 2,000 jobs from Indiana to Mexico, the Carrier Corporation said Tuesday evening that it had reached a deal with President-elect Donald Trump to …

By Oladipo Airenakho Benin City – Edo state Government has entered into partnership with the World Bank, the Federal Ministry of Finance as well as that of Budget and National Planning to assist the state to efficiently execute its poverty reduction schemes. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary, Mr. John Mayaki during the week said the partnership was fallout …

The Nigerian Communications Commission has suspended its directive to mobile network operators to increase the price of data. According to the NCC, the decision is as a result of the outrage that followed the announcement of the planned price hike. “Following the concerns that visited the directive to introduce price floor for data segment of the telecommunications sector beginning from …

The Ondo State governor-elect, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu has said his victory in last Saturday’s governorship election in the state was not only for himself nor his party, the All Progressives Congress but for the people of the state. He also promised to carry along everybody in his incoming administration including all those who did not vote for him during the …

The Senate on Wednesday asked the Nigerian Communications Commission to immediately stop planned data tariff hike. The Senate said before any such hike could be announced all parties should be consulted. (Punch)