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By Eben Enasco Measures have been put in place by the Oredo Government Council to improve the transparency and predictability of the investment environment, which will boost its operational sustainability in the Council Area. At the launch of a new investment initiative on Friday at the Council’s Secretariat in Benin City, with the name, “OREDO BUSINESS SUPPORT AND INVESTMENT FACILITATION …

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Salvatore LoGrande fought cancer and all the pain that came with it, his daughters promised to keep him in the white, pitched roof house he worked so hard to buy all those decades ago. So, Sandy LoGrande thought it was a mistake when, a year after her father’s death, Massachusetts billed her $177,000 for her father’s …

Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, this week announced that his diocese is willing to help with the burial of the body of an unborn baby discovered in a local pond. Police in Leesburg, Virginia, announced this week the “discovery of a deceased late-term fetus in a pond” about 20 miles outside of Washington, D.C., the Catholic …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON  Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the Edo State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Tony Aziegbemi in Benin City.  It was gathered that Aziegbemi was trailed and whisked away near his private residence at Odaro Street, off Country home road, Sapele road, Benin City, about 10:57pm, last Friday. The kidnappers were said to …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Police in Benin have revealed how hoodlums suspected to be kidnappers dramatically abducted the Edo State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Tony Aziegbemi in Benin City, the state capital, last Friday. According to police statement, the PDP Chairman who had earlier attended a meeting at the State Government House was returning to his house …

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says Nigeria’s headline inflation rate increased to 31.70 per cent in February 2024. The NBS said this in its Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Inflation Report for February, which was released in Abuja on Friday. According to the report, the figure is 1.80 per cent points higher compared to the 29.90 per cent recorded …

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun Area 1 Command, said it intercepted 940 rounds of ammunition worth N557 million concealed in sacks of garri (cassava flakes) at the Idiroko axis of the state. The Area Controller, Ahmadu Shibu, said thiuas at a media conference on Friday in Idiroko, Ogun. Mr Shuaibu said while carrying out an anti-smuggling operation on 14 …

Blames undersea seismic activities for cable cuts Bank transfers, telcos’ services suffer more dislocations Internet users and ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) based business operators across the country may have to endure up to three more weeks of epileptic services, it was gathered last night. The disruptions were sparked by a cut on the submarine cable system in the Atlantic …

Vows attempts to sabotage efforts to reposition economy will fail President Bola Tinubu yesterday alleged that smugglers and beneficiaries of the old petrol subsidy were beginning to fight back, but vowed that his administration would not abuse the trust Nigerians reposed in him. Tinubu, during a meeting with the Forum of State Chairmen of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the …

•Prioritize school safety over legislators’ luxuries —Sam Amadi•Investigate security heads, improve intelligence —Deji Adeyanju, ACF•Gov’t must protect our children at all cost —School heads, parents, others•I’m scared to come to school, don’t know if it’ll be my last —School principal As the scourge of insecurity continues to plague the nation, there have been serious concerns from different quarters regarding the …