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BENIN CITY – Seven days after the conferment of the chieftaincy title of Uko N’Iwebo, on the Heir-Apparent to the Benin throne and Edaiken N’Uselu, His Royal Highness, Crown Prince (Amb.) Eheneden Erediauwa, he has in accordance with customary norm performed the traditional Iguohun ceremony (propitiation of his destiny) in appreciation of Divine grace and the good fortune of his …

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has promised a solar power revolution in Nigeria in the next one year. Osinbajo made the promise after inspecting solar power stands mounted at a Trade Fair by the Department for International Development as a follow-up to the agreement signed between Nigeria and the United Kingdom for massive solar power in Nigeria. According to him, Nigeria …

AFTER three postponements, a former Governor of Rivers State and President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominee, Rotimi Amaechi, was finally screened on Thursday by the Senate but the exercise left the Peoples Democratic Party members of the Senate alleging betrayal. The opposition senators have also threatened to oppose Amaechi’s confirmation when the time comes. They said their All Progressives Congress colleagues …

The former Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, again reported at the Economic Governance Unit of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday. The former minister arrived the commission by 11 am and left at 4.20pm after his interrogation by operatives. Moro was interrogated on Tuesday in relation with the failed Immigration recruitment of May, 2014. A top operative …

After weeks of high-wired politics, former Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, was finally received on Thursday, into the hallowed chamber of the Senate to be screened as a ministerial nominee by Senators.Amaechi rotimi Amaechi was led into the chamber at about 1.38pm by Chairman of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Odigie Oyegun and Speacial Adviser …

By Oladipo Airenakho Edo lawmakers have dispelled the wide spread speculations of a planned impeachment of the State House of Assembly Speaker, Honorable Victor Edoror, with the passage, on Wednesday of a vote of confidence on him. The vote came on the heel of recent widespread speculation in the Benin City of a planned removal of the Speaker over allegation …

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mrs. Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita as the acting Head of the Civil Service of the Federation. Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Babachir Lawal, who conveyed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said the appointment was with effect from Wednesday. She replaces Mr Danladi Kifasi, who has already proceeded …

ABUJA—Strong indications emerged, yesterday, that Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, was prepared to bow to the position of All Progressives Congress, APC, by sacrificing his principal officers. SarakiAccording to a source, part of the unwritten agreement to allow peace to reign was to revert to the initial list of the party on the appointment of principal officers. This was part …

ABUJA–President Mohammadu Buhari today (Wednesday) appointed Professor Mahmood Yakubu as the new chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Yakubu who is taking over from the Acting Chairman of the Commission, Mrs. Bala Zakari was the former Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFUND. The president also appointed other five national commissioners including Zakari. The appointments followed …

By Oladipo Airenakho Self-proclaimed Marxist and leader of a human rights group in Nigeria, known as the Talakawa Parliament, Mr. Kola Edokpayi has accused the Honorable members of Edo State House of Assembly of allowing the legislature to be used as a rubber stamp by the state governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. His outburst is coming in the aftermath of the …