Mechanical works on Edo modular refinery project located in Ologbo, Ikpoba-Okha local government area of the state, is 95 per cent completed. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Edobor Iyamu, who disclosed this on Thursday, during an inspection visit to the refinery, said when completed, the refinery will attract […]
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The attention of the Citizens Quest for Truth Initiative has been drawn to yet another comic opera that played out in the Federal House of Representatives, on Monday 17th August, 2020, this time, involving the Minister for Transport, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and the Chairman House Committee on treaties, Hon. Ossai Nicholas Ossai (Delta, […]
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The Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) is set to hold an Extraordinary Summit on the socio-political situation in Mali on Thursday. The Directorate of Communications of the ECOWAS Commission disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. The summit, which would hold virtually […]
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The governor of Edo state, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Thursday said his convoy was attacked at ward 10, Apana, Etsako west local government area of the state. The former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, is from ward 10. In a statement which Crusoe Osagie, his spokesman, issued on his behalf, […]
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The Rivers State Government says it has pulled out of the Special Public Works Programme of the Federal Government, where 774,000 Nigerians were supposed to be employed. The nominee of the Rivers State Government in the Committee, Erastus Awortu, made the decision of the state known in a letter addressed to the Minister of State […]
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has vowed to proceed to the supreme court for a final judgement on its powers to deregister political parties. INEC said it will seek the verdict of the apex court over a judgement of the court of appeal that voided its deregisteration of 22 political parties. Though the court […]
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The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has said that the tensed political atmosphere in Edo state has left much to be desired. He disclosed this on Saturday in Benin, while playing host to Governor Mai-Mala-Buni of Yobe state and caretaker committee chairman of the All Progressives Congress, who led the party’s governorship candidate, Pastor […]
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Former Vice-President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar says the unfolding political developments in Edo are a threat to constitutional order. Abubakar, in his verified tweeter handle on Thursday, urged the forces behind the developments to reign in their proxies, and abide by the rule of law to allow the people elect who they wanted to […]
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The bid by Senator Dino Melaye to return to the Senate was finally consigned to the dustbin on Tuesday as the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja dismissed the petition he filed for upturning of the victory of Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the November 2019 by-election into the Kogi West […]
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Adams Oshiomhole, former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has assured the party’s loyalists of victory in the forthcoming Edo governorship election. Addressing his supporters in Edo during the weekend, he expressed the confidence that the APC would win the September 19 election. In a veiled reference to Godwin Obaseki, incumbent governor of […]
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