Vigilante Commander abducted in Rivers community
PORT HARCOURT – Tension is mounting in parts of Rivers State following the abduction of a local vigilante commander and growing allegations of bandit occupation of forests in Ikwerre communities.…
Monitoring ensures quality project delivery – Fashanu
The Managing Director of the Edo State Public Building and Maintenance Agency, Arc. Emmanuel Fashanu has reiterated the state government’s stance on contractors engaged by the Agency delivering quality projects.…
Shaibu extols Gusau’s endearing reforms, worthwhile projects
Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of the National Institute for Sports, His Excellency Comrade Philip Shaibu has heaped plaudits on the President of Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau…
UBEC releases N434.5m, sets aside N5.18bn for nationwide school upgrade
ABUJA — The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has disbursed N434.5 million as the final tranche of intervention funds to complete thousands of ongoing school projects across the country, while…
Okpebholo hosts City Boy Movement, declares support for Tinubu’s 2nd term
BENIN CITY — Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, on Thursday declared that only individuals with deep urban understanding can effectively organise and brand a modern city, as he received leaders…
Don urges Nigeria to escape ‘Entrepreneurship Wilderness,’ calls for production-driven economy
BENIN CITY — A Professor of Business Administration at Wellspring University, Patrick Stephen Ohikhena, has called for urgent reforms to dismantle structural and cultural barriers hindering Nigeria’s economic independence. Delivering…
Police arrest proprietress as Edo shuts illegal orphanage over alleged adoption scam
BENIN CITY — Authorities in Edo State have uncovered an alleged illegal orphanage in Afuze, Owan East Local Government Area, leading to the arrest of its proprietress, Mrs Grace Efe…
Edo: Illegal mining and Conspiracy Of Silence
Edo State is lavishly endowed with natural resources. Officially, on paper, it may appear as the tapping of these resources are yet to commence. Our discreet investigations, revealed that illegal…
Loggers invade Benin monarch’s forest, defile ancestral Shrine in Edo
BENIN CITY — Suspected illegal loggers have invaded a protected forest belonging to the Benin monarch, desecrating the revered Ovia ancestral shrine and felling several timber trees in Iyowa Village,…
NMA chaos: Delegates suspend NOC, reinstate disqualified candidates
By Chioma Obinna The crisis rocking the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, at the national level escalated on Thursday as delegates at an Emergency Delegates Meeting, EDM, in Abuja voted to…