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BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Suspected cultists have beheaded a 42-year-old man, sending fears and anxiety across the Uwelu community of Benin amid police intensified clampdown on criminal gangs operating in Edo State. The victim’s head and feet were carted away by his assailants. Police recovered the body of the victim along Powerline Street, Uwelu area, Benin City, about 7:30pm on December …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Wednesday, swore in the newly appointed Special Advisers, charging them on the need to proactively address misinformation and misrepresentation by the opposition as the 2024 governorship election nears. Obaseki, who said the government has in the last seven years undertaken bold and transformative programmes and projects across various sectors of the State to …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Rubber Research Institute of Nigeria (RRIN), Dr. Lelia Dongo has said that the institute has made tremendous achievements which have grown the sector in the past five decades. The achievements according to her include development of improved high yielding and disease resistant rubber clones, increased rubber production in Nigeria with 482 …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON John Odigie-Oyegun Public Service Academy (JOOPSA), has hosted an Open House for journalists and social media influencers, offering firsthand insights into its organizational dynamics and milestones under the leadership of its Pioneer Director General, (DG) Precious Imuwahen Ajoonu. The DG of the academy noted that contrary to insinuations that civil servants are not productive, they constituted the …

• Population grows by 30 per cent in 10 years• Economy expands by less than three per cent• Number of severely financially distressed adults rise to 74%  If Nigeria’s economy tumbles off this current cliff the next moment, it would not happen for want of sufficient early warning signs but, perhaps, for lack of the required willpower to make necessary …

A World Bank report has indicated that Nigeria’s poverty level has taken a notch higher, at the backdrop of the recent economic and fiscal reforms. The key reforms include the removal of petrol subsidy and the foreign exchange market rate restructuring. The bank, however, commended the Federal Government for what it considered ‘bold reforms’ necessary to rescue Nigeria from fiscal cliff, …

He spelled out the goals the day he sent troops to Ukraine in February 2022. “De-Nazification” refers from Russia’s allegations that the Ukrainian government is heavily influenced by radical nationalist and neo-Nazi groups. The claim is derided by Ukraine and the West. Putin has also demanded that Ukraine remain neutral — and not join the NATO alliance. “There will be …

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Israel has vowed to keep fighting in Gaza until it crushes Hamas after one of the deadliest single battles of the war for its soldiers, even as it faces mounting international calls for a cease-fire and unease on the part of its closest ally, the United States. The ambush in Gaza City showed Hamas is still able …

Artificial intelligence does not come with the options of “to be” or “not to be” in academia. If nothing, the intelligence that is included in the term makes it “a child of necessity” to intellectuals. To say artificial intelligence is not welcome for scholarly activities is like a farmer saying a tractor is not welcome on his farmland. Matter-of-factly, to …

Nearly half of the air-to-ground munitions that Israel has used in Gaza in its war with Hamas since October 7 have been unguided, otherwise known as “dumb bombs,” according to a new US intelligence assessment. The assessment, compiled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and described to CNN by three sources who have seen it, says that about 40-45% of the 29,000 air-to-ground …