By Alltimepost.com As Crown Prince (Amb) Eheneden Erediauwa is set to ascend the throne of the Great Benin Kingdom, Edo State Government has declared Thursday, October 20, 2016, the day of his coronation as a public holiday. In an announcement signed by the Secretary to State Government, Prof Julius Ihonvbere today, the administration said the public holiday “is in honour …
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By Osaru Okuns Alltimepost.com Publisher, Comrade Emmanuel Okunmwendia has now joined the prestigious club of grandfathers as his eldest daughter, Princess Nosakhare Okunmwendia-Eseimuede, last Wednesday October 12, 2016 gave birth to her first child. A baby boy, young Eseimude was born at Beverly Hospital in Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America. His coming represents a great blessing to the marriage …
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Benin Kingdom has been the center of attraction in the past two weeks after the Crown Prince, Prince (Amb) Ehenede Erediauwa, commenced his journey to the throne. The Crown Prince will become the 39th Oba of Benin Kingdom after the grand finale of the events scheduled to hold on Thursday at the traditional Urho-Okpota ground. Since the commencement of the …
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The Senate on today (Tuesday) confirmed the appointment of Justice Ejembi Eko and Justice Amina Augie as Justices of the Supreme Court. The confirmation of the Justices followed the consideration of the report of its committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, which urged the Senate to go ahead with the confirmation. In confirming the appointments, the 8th Senate …
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Emotions ran high on Sunday in Abuja when parents of the 21 Chibok girls, who were released by Boko Haram militants on Thursday, reunited with their parents at a thanksgiving service. Parents and a few invited guests shed tears as the few lucky girls, who were among the over 200 schoolgirls of the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, kidnapped …
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has scrapped the use of scratch cards for any of its transactions and services, describing it as “archaic,” its Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has announced. He also demanded that the Federal Government should revert to the former system where serving vice-chancellors of universities were made chairmen of the Governing Board of JAMB. A …
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An EFCC witness, Mr. Kanu Idagu, on Monday told a Federal High Court in Lagos how some committees were set up at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency as conduit pipes to steal money running into billions of Naira. Idagu, an operative of EFCC, gave the evidence at the resumed trial of Patrick Akpobolokemi, a former Director General of …
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Poised to fight back, some of the judges whose homes were raided by operatives of the Department of State Service, DSS, last weekend, have opened cans of worm, with one of them indicting the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN. Already, two of them who are currently serving at the Abuja Division of the …
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The 21 freed Chibok Girls said on Sunday in Abuja that for “one month and 10 days’’ of their abduction by the Boko Haram insurgents, they stayed without food in the bush. Ms Gloria Dame, one of the rescued girls, narrated this while giving testimony on behalf of her colleaques at a thanks giving service organised for them at a …
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The Department of State Services (DSS) has invited Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court in Abuja to appear before it on Monday. Though it is not clear why the service is inviting the judge, sources close to it said the invitation was to possibly drill him based on the petition it received against him. Justice Dimgba was among …
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