Special Reports

Special Report By Erasmus Ikhide Under Governor Godwin Obaseki’s administration, College of Education, Abudu in Orhionmwon Local Government is growing in leaps and bounds. At the last count, more than twelve existing dilapidated buildings have been renovated and made ready for use by students and members of management staff. These include ninety five hostel rooms with ultra-modern toilet facilities with …

Alltimepost.com Investigation, By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Even though the Obaseki administration has made the revival of agriculture one of its game plan for the employment of 200,000 young people in Edo State, investigations have revealed that with the near collapse of the state’s agricultural system, the idea will suffer serious setback. Mrs. Efemena Odhogwu 41, is a businesswoman who lives …

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku Of great irony to a disillusioned Oko community, was that while residents in this abandoned area of town were making personal sacrifices to fix their road, another construction, reportedly funded by the Federal/Edo State Governments was taking place nearby. Residents told our reporter that the road construction is under a World Bank/EU assisted program, the State Employment …

…turns facility into migrant returnee shelter …relocates students to CCD in Igarra …aggrieved students protest short notice By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku On Saturday March 16, 2019, students of the Centre for Community Development were woken up from sleep by an unusual sound. One of the female students said she noticed that there were lorries carrying blocks and blocks and blocks. …

Special Report By Bob Majiri-Oghene Etemiku Affiliated to the University of Benin, Benin City, the CCD offers a 2-Year Diploma program in Community Development Programs. Terms of that affiliation include provision of part-time lecturers and moderation of the Center’s Examinations and Results. The Two-Year program is designed to give opportunity to civil servants & government workers to develop themselves in …

Special Report By Bob MajiriOghene According to World Health Organization (WHO), between January 1 and March 18, 2018 1495 suspected cases of and 119 deaths from Lassa fever were reported from 19 states (Anambra, Bauchi, Benue, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Federal Capital Territory, Gombe, Imo, Kaduna, Kogi, Lagos, Nasarawa, Ondo, Osun, Plateau, Rivers, and Taraba) of Nigeria. During this period …

At least N121 billion of the N242 billion federal lawmakers approved for the 2019 general elections will be drawn from funds meant to cater for poor Nigerians. The money is to be drawn from the N500 billion allocated to the Special Intervention Programme (SIP), a fund set aside for the social safety programmes of the Buhari administration. The decision to …

As the canoe snaked gently from the old wooden structures of Makoko into the lagoon, shirtless kids repairing fishing nets sat on a bench on the edge of Nigeria’s famous slum community. The Makoko water smelled decaying fishes and waste. A few metres away stood the Third Mainland Bridge, linking Lagos Island and the city’s mainland. The bridge, reputed as …

The bloody violence that erupted after Nigerian soldiers opened gunfire on Shiite protesters on the outskirts of Abuja Monday afternoon left at least 21 members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) dead, PREMIUM TIMES can report following an assessment of the aftermath. The fresh evidence collected by this newspaper throughout Tuesday questions the official account by the Nigerian Army …

When Mama Adekunle, as she is fondly called, heard the news of the birth of a child to her son, she did what most new grandmothers in Nigeria do – she rushed over to perform her traditional duty of taking care of the new mother and child. This duty includes passing knowledge to the new mother on how to bathe …