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A Federal High Court in Abuja has insisted that its order made on April 17, for the arrest and production of ex-governor of Kogi state, Yahaya Bello still subsists. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling on Friday, May 10, held that Bello’s continued refusal to attend court and his frustration with the efforts of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to …

Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, arrived in Nigeria on Friday to champion the Invictus Games, which he founded to aid the rehabilitation of wounded and sick service members and veterans, among them Nigerian soldiers fighting a 14-year war against Islamic extremists. The couple, visiting the West African nation for the first time on the invitation of its military, arrived …

 …Demands N50 Million Compensation BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON A Benin-based private firm has threatened to institute a legal action against Edo State-owned Ossiomo Power Company over alleged unlawful disconnection of electricity supply to its factory. The establishment is demanding fifty million Naira as damages from the electricity firm for willful failure to supply electricity, an action it said amounted to breach …

*Development puts paid to neighbor’s earlier report that she was spotted in lover’s residence BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON  Edo State Police Command has revealed a devastating twist in its investigation into the disappearance of a 200-level Delta Varsity student, Faith Omodon, 19, saying she has been murdered and not spotted in her lover’s residence as findings earlier indicated. Faith Omodon At …

WASHINGTON — Hardline Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tried and failed in sudden action Wednesday to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, her long-shot effort swiftly and resoundingly rejected by Democrats and Republicans tired of the political chaos. One of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters in Congress, Greene stood on the House floor and read a long list of “transgressions” she said Johnson had committed as …

The Director General of the Edo State Health Insurance Commission (EDOHIC), Dr. Rock Amegor, has said over 102,000 vulnerable persons in the State are benefitting from the State’s Equity Fund and the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund (BHCPF). Dr. Amegor disclosed this in Benin City during an event to commemorate two years of providing care to vulnerable groups under the Basic …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON  Labour Party (LP), governorship candidate in the forthcoming Edo gubernatorial election, Barrister Olumide Akpata formally invited by police over alleged security breaches, involving shootings at the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Ugbowo Campus, has finally honored the invitation.  Akpata who was reportedly invited by the police three weeks  ago, showed up at the State police Command headquarters where …

In a bid to legalize the businesses of many of the Point of Sale (PoS) Operators before the expiration of the July 7th deadline as issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has created additional registration venue in Abuja. Speaking while inaugurating the Center, the Registrar-General of CAC, Hussaini Magaji, explained that the importance …

Less than 48 hours after soldiers were withdrawn from Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area, bloodbath has returned as one person is feared dead and three others fatally injured. Our reporter gathered on Thursday morning that the fresh violence ensued as indigenes of the levelled Okuama are attempting to return to their ruined ancestral homes. Some of the …

President Joe Biden said for the first time Wednesday he would halt some shipments of American weapons to Israel – which he acknowledged have been used to kill civilians in Gaza – if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders a major invasion of the city of Rafah. “Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in …