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The Federal Government has directed that all private and public primary and secondary schools should remain closed till 13th October, 2014 as a preventive measure against the spread of Ebola Virus Disease. The preventive measures are decisions reached in a meeting the Minister of Education held with State Commissioners of Education in Abuja on tuesday. This measure was announced by …

Benin, Edo, Nigeria – By Oladipo Airenakho.                              As part of the massive sensitization campaign in Nigeria to prevent the spread of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease the Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, has held a meeting with market women in the state on precautionary measures …

The Enugu State House of Assembly has removed the state’s Deputy Governor, Sunday Onyebuchi, from office. The Assembly voted Tuesday morning to sack Mr. Onyebuchi from office. Details of the impeachment session is still sketchy but the deputy governor’s removal is believed to have been masterminded by Governor Sullivan Chime. The Assembly accused Mr. Onyebuchi  of operating a commercial poultry at …

Boston – By Emman Okuns – Nigerian government has been advised to embark on a national  registration exercise involving fingerprints for  all citizens and everyone living in the country as a critical component of security measures to fight terrorism, kidnapping and other  crimes in the county. Edo United for Homeland Empowerment, a human rights group, with headquarters in Boston, made …

By Alltimepost.com – President Barack Obama’s state of Illinois will be home to more than two thousand Edo indigenes from all over the world, expected at this year’s 23th annual Edo National Association World-wide convention, beginning from August 29 to 31, 2014 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Chicago. The Theme of the convention, being sponsored by an Edo indigenous …

Ukraine’s president has dissolved parliament and called snap elections, as government forces continue to fight pro-Russian rebel forces in the east. Petro Poroshenko said many current MPs were backers of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych and that the majority of Ukrainians wanted a new parliament. Elections would be held on 26 October, he said in a TV address. Separately, Ukraine’s military …

Hundreds of people have attended the funeral for the black teenager killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri. Mourners at the Friendly Temple Baptist Church in St Louis sang, prayed and remembered the life of Michael Brown. Mr Brown, 18, who was unarmed, was killed on 9 August after being stopped by a white police officer for walking in the middle …

The US Army’s Fort Lee base in the state of Virginia has been put on lockdown following reports of an “active shooter” at the facility. Fort Lee’s Twitter account carried a warning concerning the four-storey Cascom (Command Arms Support Command) HQ, Building 5020. It said: “The installation has been locked down until further notice.” There are no reports of any …

The Ukrainian military says it is battling rebel armoured vehicles that crossed from Russia and headed to the south-eastern city of Mariupol. It said the column was halted near the town of Novoazovsk. One military commander said pro-Russian rebels might be trying to open up a new southern front. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he not heard the reports …

ABUJA—The Defence Headquarters, yesterday, declared that military operations to secure Gwoza town seized by the insurgents earlier this month was ongoing even as Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau was defiant, proclaiming Islamic caliphate in the town which he said was now firmly in the grip of the sect. Responding to the claim by the sect leader that Gwoza town seized …