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Leaders and diplomats the world over expressed condolences and support on Saturday for Morocco after a devastating earthquake struck near tourist hotspot Marrakesh. The 6.8-magnitude earthquake that hit late Friday killed at least 632 people and injured 329 others, including 51 in critical condition, according to Moroccan authorities. Support poured in from leaders across the world, including – Europe – …

MARRAKECH, Morocco — A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco late Friday night, killing more than 800 people and damaging buildings from villages in the Atlas Mountains to the historic city of Marrakech. But the full toll was not known as rescuers struggled to get through boulder-strewn roads to the remote mountain villages hit hardest. People woken by the quake ran into the …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON  A gubernatorial aspirant on the platform of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Martins Azekhumen Okoukoni has pledged to change the present narrative of Edo State with institutional reforms if elected governor of the state come 2024. He expressed confidence that with the ideology of the LP and his own progressive personality, the needed apparatus to checkmate corrupt …

Bendel Insurance FC of Benin, Edo State is set for another thrilling continental showdown as they advance in the CAF Confederation Cup with a first-leg clash against Renaissance Sportive de Berkane (RSB) of Morocco in the Second Qualifying Round of the competition. The Edo-based team will host the 2021/2022 CAF Confederation Cup winners for a place in the group stage, …

…to showcase opportunities for State’s prosperity created by Obaseki in 7 years Asue Ighodalo, the Chairman, Alaghodaro Economic Summit Limited/Gte has said the seventh edition of the Alaghodaro Summit will be used to showcase the innovative policies and gains of reforms implemented by the State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, to create prosperity for the State and improve the livelihoods of Edo people. Ighodalo said …

Africa requires the reform of global financial architecture as that would position countries in the continent to access Climate Change action funding, resources and ensure long-term adaptation according to Nigeria’s immediate past Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN). He made this statement while fielding questions from journalists on Wednesday during a media chat at the just concluded first Africa Climate …

TALLINN, Estonia — Russian authorities are holding local elections this weekend in occupied parts of Ukraine in an effort to tighten their grip on territories Moscow illegally annexed a year ago and still does not fully control. The voting for Russian-installed legislatures in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions has already begun and concludes Sunday. It has been denounced by Kyiv and the …

PAN Niger Delta Elders Forum, PANDEF, has opined that the legal representatives of the candidates of the Labour Party, Peter Obi and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, did not do a good job in the presidential election matter they handled. National Publicity Secretary of PANDEF, Ken Robinson, stated that the lapses in the presentations by the counsel for LP and …

Although the European Union (EU) and ECOWAS delegations are accredited to observe Nigeria’s elections, their reports on the elections are ‘valueless’ and ‘inadmissible’ in Nigerian courts, a senior judge ruled on Wednesday. Moses Ugo, a judge of Nigeria’s second highest court, the Court of Appeal, said this while reading his ruling as a member of the Presidential Election Petition Court. PREMIUM TIMES …

Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike has reacted to the judgment delivered by the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, saying election petitions are not won on social media. Wike, in an interview on a Channels Television political programme, Politics Today, on Thursday, said election petition is ‘’a special case and not propaganda.’ His words: “I have always told people …