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The Presidency has denied that the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu has been sacked. In a series of tweets on Saturday, Garba Shehu, the spokesman for President Muhammadu Buhari said, ” no report has been made available to the Presidency by the Attorney General of the federation over the matter.” The Senate had …

An Assistant Commissioner of Police, identified as one Christopher Osakue, has reportedly committed suicide in Benin, the Edo State capital.‎ It was gathered that the late Osakue allegedly shot himself in the head with his service pistol in his residence located on Upper Sokponba on Wednesday. The deceased was said to have sent a woman and a little boy, said …

The major reason for communal crisis, particularly in the seven local government areas of Edo South, is land. Youths, under the aegis of Community Development Associations (CDAs), allegedly took over the sale of land in most of the Bini communities and, in the process, scammed those who wanted to buy. Apart from that, youths who believe their communities are more …

The Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Martins Azubuike was yesterday impeached by members of the House. Twenty out of the 24 members signed his impeachment notice but 19 of them sat at the plenary when he was impeached. 16 members make up the quorum for the House to sit. A new Speaker, Bishop Kennedy Njoku, …

The Federal Government has allocated N6.55billion for the completion of the East-West Road project in the Niger Delta Ministry budget for 2017 fiscal proposal. The breakdown of the funds meant for the road projects which has now been extended to sections five, covering Oron in Akwa Ibom State to Calabar in Cross River showed that the Sections 2 (2-2) Ahoada-Kaiama …

There was tension in Enugu, yesterday, following the killing of two persons during a bloody clash between some Igbo and Fulani at Gariki Market, Enugu. Those killed were identified as one Ali, a Fulani man and Ifeanyi Ifeacho, an Igbo man. Sources said the incident happened on Wednesday evening. An eye witness informed us that trouble started in the market …

Since Gallup began asking Americans the people they admired the most, there’s been a consistent pattern: Whoever was president or president-elect was almost always the man the country admired the most. The most admired woman? Usually someone who had been married to a president. Only five times has the most admired man in the country not been a president — …

By Karen Parrish – DoD News WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met yesterday at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to pay their respects to the victims and honor the survivors of the attack 75 years ago that drew the United States into World War II. “It is here that we reflect on how war tests our …

By Oladipo Airenakho The eighteen local government councils in Edo State have received the sum of N1, 777,639,808.24 from the federal allocation for the month of November, 2016 and absolve the State Government of any interference with revenue accruing to local government areas. Briefing newsmen after the joint allocation committee meeting of local governments in the State held at the …

Medical doctors in Rivers State have threatened to embark on strike should the state government fail to accede to their demands on the issue of poor health facilities and inadequate manpower. The doctors, who spoke under the auspices of the National Association of Government Medical and Dental Practitioners in Rivers State said they would down tools from January 9, 2017 …