BENIN CITY – The Youth Party has frowned at the continuous waste of public resources on irrelevant overheads and consumption by the federal government. The Party, in a statement by its National Chairman, Tomiwa Aladekomo expressed great displeasure at the country’s sustenance of government’s non-productive recurrent expenditure, unlike other countries …

WARRI – The Egbema Gbaramatu Communities Development Foundation (EGCDF), a Community Based Organisation sponsored by the NNPC/Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) Joint Venture, together with the Delta state government, on April 15, 16 and 20, 2021 commissioned eleven (11) infrastructural projects in Egbema and Gbaramatu Kingdoms of Warri North and Warri …

LAGOS – The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, on Monday announced that there would be no increase in the ex-depot price of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, in May. NNPC has maintained an ex-depot price of N148/litre since February despite the hike …

LAGOS – Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 300-level university student, Rhoda Agboje and her boyfriend, Ifeanyi Nwankwo, both of who specialise in producing and selling drug cookies to school children and other unsuspecting members of the public in Abuja. Narcotics agents with the …

BENIN CITY – The Assistant Inspector-General, AIG, of police deployed to zone 5 Command has assumed duty in Benin City, the Edo State Capital. He is AIG Isaac Akinmoyede. The AIG who assumed duty on 19th April, 2021, was prior to his deployment to Zone 5, the AIG in-charge of …

LAGOS – Nine Nigerian inmates recently escaped during a jailbreak at the Owerri Correctional Centre in Imo State have been arrested while trying to enter Ghana after arriving in a boat at weekend. It would be recalled that on April 5, over 1,884 prison inmates were said to have escaped …

BENIN CITY – The police in Edo said they have rescued 19 children and six women trafficked from different parts of the country to Benin City. The police also stated that the rescue operation was carried out in synergy with local vigilante in Evboutubu area, Ekehuan road, Benin City on …

…targets 1 million active taxpayers’ electronic profiles in Edo BENIN CITY – The Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Edo State Internal Revenue Service (EIRS), Igbinidu Inneh has revealed that the state is deploying a technology-driven revenue collection scheme to boost its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) and enhance …

BENIN CITY – The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has mourned the passing of Civil-Military historian and Cardiologist, Dr. Nowamagbe Omoigui, who died at the age of 62. In a statement, the governor described the death as painful, noting that late Omoigui was a noble ambassador of Edo State, …

BENIN CITY – The Edo State Polytechnic has secured full accreditation for its Mass Communication programme and five other courses after the last accreditation exercise by officials of the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE). Rector of the Polytechnic, Prof. Abiodun Falodun, said the recent accreditation was a testament to …