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Anxiety mounted yesterday in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State as one of the key governorship aspirants and former Secretary to the Government (SSG), Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, was whisked away by the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Ize-Iyamu was said to have been arrested, shortly after he was screened by the committee of the …

Chris Murphy, who led Democrats in holding floor for more than 14 hours, says deal was struck with Republicans for vote on background checks and terror watchlist.   A marathon Democratic filibuster in the wake of the Orlando nightclub massacre came to an end in the US Senate on Thursday morning after Republicans apparently agreed to hold votes on tighter …

By Oladipo Airenakho Benin City, Nigeria – Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has assured the governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC), that the state primary election, scheduled for Saturday June 18 to choose the party’s flagbearer for the September 10, 2016 gubernatorial election would be free, fair and devoid of violence. Oshiomhole gave the assurance while speaking …

Medical doctor, politician and former student activist, Dr. Tony Nwoye’s defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the All Progressives Congress, APC, is laced with much intrigues that could soon inflame the political landscape in his native Anambra State. When the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and other top officials of the PDP vowed to unseat …

Barring any last minute changes in plan, President Muhammadu Buhari is expected back in the country on Thursday (today) from London. Buhari had penultimate Monday commenced a 10-day holiday and proceeded to London on the same day. The Presidency had, in a statement, indicated that the President would during the visit to the United Kingdom, see an Ear, Nose and …

By Oladipo Airenakho Benin, Edo Nigeria – A group of Edo people in the Diaspora has endorsed a governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Mr Godwin Obaseki. The people, under the aegis of Godwin Obaseki Diaspora Support Group, (GODSP) cut across America and Europe declared this when they paid a visit to his Campaign office …

The Christian Association of Nigeria has insisted Christian pupils will continue to wear church garments and other apparels to public schools if Muslim students continued wearing hijab. The Vice Chairman of CAN in the state, Pastor Moses Ogundeji, said this in an interview with journalists at the venue of the prayer meeting of the association called on hijab in Osogbo …

The Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun on Tuesday said students who wore unauthorised cloths to any public schools in the State would be expelled henceforth. Aregbesola stated this at the commissioning of St Micheal’s Government Middle School, Ibokun while reacting to different choir robes and garments wore to Baptist High School in Iwo by some Christian students. Students in Osun …

The Osun State branch of Christian Association of Nigeria carried out its threat to instruct Christian pupils to appear in their schools in choir robes and other church garments as some students of the Baptist High School, Iwo, appeared in the school in church apparel on Tuesday. The students in such religious garments started arriving at the school around 8.30am …

President Muhammadu Buhari who is currently in London, United Kingdom, on a 10-day vacation wrote this article yesterday on the American Wall Street Journal. Nigeria is at a crossroads. Just over a year ago, people voted in a historic democratic election to end corruption and business as usual, opting instead to build an economy that delivers for all Nigerians. President …