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…No crisis in govt, we’re focused, says Obaseki Edo State House of Assembly Speaker, Rt. Hon. Blessing Agbebaku, has said there is no plan whatsoever to impeach the State Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu, urging Edo people to disregard rumours of the purported impeachment by the State Assembly. “There was no time that the governor called me and …

Edo State Government, on Friday, led football lovers and other residents to major roads and streets within the Benin metropolis to rally support for Bendel Insurance ahead of Saturday’s CAF Confederation encounter with ASO Chlef FC of Algeria, at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City. The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Edo City Transport Limited, Mrs. Hauwa Dupe …

Human rights lawyer Femi Falana, SAN, has slammed the floating of the naira by the Central Bank of Nigeria. Falana also disclosed that he is challenging the decision to float the naira in court, noting that it is ‘illegal’. On June 14, when the naira was trading at a range of 730 to 755 against the dollar at the Investors …

He had said he would use the “major News Conference” at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club Monday morning to release what he claimed was an “almost complete” report that would exonerate him. Federal and state election officials and Trump’s own attorney general have said there is no credible evidence that the election was tainted. The former president’s allegations of fraud were …

Ukraine has ramped up missile strikes on Russian-occupied Crimea in recent weeks in an effort to disrupt Russian logistics and resupply efforts as fighting rages in southern Ukraine – but it’s a strategy that some US officials in Washington are viewing with skepticism. For some military and Biden administration officials, Ukrainian attacks on Crimea are at best a distraction, and at worst, …

MEXICO CITY — Hurricane Hilary grew rapidly to Category 4 strength off Mexico’s Pacific coast on Friday and could reach Southern California as the first tropical storm there in 84 years, causing “significant and rare impacts” including extensive flooding. This satellite image taken at 10:50am EDT on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023, and provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration …

The candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Prince Adewole Adebayo, has expressed doubt over the capacity of some minister designates to perform in their assigned portfolios as most of the ministries over lap one another. He added that the exercise could prevent effective and efficient delivery of the various ministries mandate as some of the Ministries, Department and Agencies …

The organised labour has knocked the Federal Government for releasing a N180bn palliative package to states to cushion the impact of the fuel subsidy removal. The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress insisted that the governors could not be trusted, noting that politicians and not the poor would benefit from the N5bn largess given to each state government …

The National Economic Council, NEC, on Thursday said that the Federal Government has approved N5 billion grant to be given to each of the 36 states of the federation for the procurement of grains as well as five trucks of rice to each state as palliatives to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal. The NEC also approved the distribution …

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has said 36 officers were killed in Niger State. Insurgents had ambushed troops in the Zungeru area of the state which led to the death of troops of the Nigerian Army. Also, a Nigerian Air Force MI-171 Helicopter on a casualty evacuation mission crashed on Monday in the Shiroro Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. …