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Postnatal Care

By BELLA AKHAGBA
Post natal care (PNC) refers to routine and emergency care provided in the period after birth until six weeks of age. Studies have identified the first week of life, indeed the first two days, as the most crucial period for post natal care services.
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Magazine

Juju Power: Exercise In Phantasmagoria
• Insights Into The Grisly Fetish World Of Nigerians In The Modern Age

By MICHAEL ODIGBE

Of recent, the issue of juju power has been put in national discourse following newspaper reports that Governor Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State has a shrine at his Sagamu home. Here, it is alleged he demands that his comrades-in-politics take blood oath of loyalty to him.



 

 

 

Ex-Commissioner Iyalekhue Shot Dead

By MIKE OSAROGIAGBON

Unidentified gunmen believed to be assassins on Thursday evening shot dead Bar. Anthony Iyalekhue, the immediate past Commissioner for Lands, Surveys and Housing during the administration of Prof. Oserhiemen Osunbor.

Suspension Of Ehima To Forestall Anarchy - EDSG

By EUBALDUS ENAHORO

The decision of the Edo State Government to suspend the Chairman of Oredo Local Government Council, Deacon Mike Ehima from office is to save the local government from anarchy and restore sanity to the area.

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Sack Lukman Now, Oil Communities Urge FG

By LEO ATAKPU
Oil producing Communities in the Niger Delta have thrown their weight behind the South- South Governors calling for the removal of the Minister of Petroleum Resources Dr. Rilwanu Lukman even as they demand greater transparency and accountability of oil revenue flowing to the region.

FG, ASUU Agree To Renegotiate
- Minister

THE Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Thursday in Abuja resolved to renegotiate the terms of agreement on the union’s demands, which led to its ongoing strike.

FG To Construct 6 Computerised Parks For Trailers, Tankers

FEDERAL government has concluded all arrangement to construct six computerised parks for trailers and petrol tankers across the nation .

Exhumation Of Corpses: Akiode Family Raises Alarm

“What happened to the remains of our dead relatives?”. This is the question members of the Akiode family in Osogbo want the security agents to unravel following the exhumation of corpses on a parcel of land in Osogbo, Osun State, under controversial circumstances.

Edo Citizens’ Right ‘ll Be Protected - Commissioner

By FUNMI BABATOPE

The Edo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Moses Momoh has assured that the rights of every citizens will be adequately protected in the state.
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‘Violate The Law, Face Great Consequences’

By TESSY OKWUDI

The Edo State Government has said that hence forth any motorist who violates the law of the road obstruction will be made to pay the stipulated fine ranging from N10, 000 to N80, 000 to the state government.

Protest Stall Business

By INNOCENT OKOH

Aggrieved members of Medical and Health Workers Union, University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) halted banking activities at the First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Ugbowo branch in the early hours of Thursday.
Features

Reviving The Idle Calabar Port

By ADELEYE AJAYI
Mr. Fred Udechukwu, the Chief Executive Officer of Global Scansystems Ltd, has been an unhappy man lately.

KONGI IN BENIN: Nobel Laurette, Prof. Wole Soyinka (middle) Barr. Tunde Ebozojie, General Manager, Edo Broadcasting Service (right) and Rev. David Ugolor, Executive Director, Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, (ANEEJ), pose in a photograph shortly after the end of Live Television Programme in EBS ‘Head On’, which took place in Benin City yesterday. Photo: LUCKY AGIE.

Withdrawal Of Petroleum Bill: Senators React

By JOSES SEDE
ABUJA- North – West Senators Thursday reacted to call by South-South Senators for the withdrawal of the Petroleum Industry Bill and the immediate removal of Rilwanu Lukman as Minister of Petroleum.

IMF Commends FG’s Vision 2020

A 25-member group to studyNigeria’s economy toward taking the populous African nation to one of the top 20 economies by the year 2020 was inaugurated on Thursday in Abuja.
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Range Classification Exercise Takes Place In Benin

By ANDY EGBON
A range classification exercise organized for men and officers of the Nigerian Airforce took place yesterday at the 322 FAR shooting range, Ekewan Barracks, Benin City.

Edo May Commence Sales Of Fertilizer To Farmers Next Week

There are indications that Edo State government may next week commence sales of fertilizer to farmers in the State at highly subsidized prices.
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Lanko Masters, Santorx Storm Auchi Poly

By RICHARD EWEKA
The entire student community in Federal Polytechnic Auchi in Edo State will experience and feel the musical heat coming from the microphone of Slizzy-E popularly known as Lanko master featuring Santorx as they take the centre stage at Spetco Gee Venue of a musical show.
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Developer Escapes Mob Attack In Court

An estate developer, Bayo Lawal, on Thursday in Lagos narrowly escaped mob attack by more than 40 complainants who stormed an Igbosere Chief Magistrate’s Court, following his arraignment.
The Nation

Presidential Amnesty And The Missing Link

By OSADOLO FRANCIS
The presidential amnesty for the Niger Delta militants who are agitating for justice is applaudable. It is a demonstration of the president’s quest for peace in the country. With this amnesty, and the fifty billion naira package to make the amnesty work expectedly, President Umaru Yar’Adua is showing his sincerity and commitment to a worthy course.
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Experience

My Thought Towards You

By AUSTIN ALLENS

I give glory to God these past two weeks for saving and sparing my life when the enemies lay snares. I have not been so tempted in my life but God who allowed the temptation, also created an exit for me. Thus as I write this, I can boldly say my life is full of testimonies.


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The Nation

Treating Youths As Underdogs

By OSADOLO FRANCIS

Any nation that has value for her youth is one with a safe future. No nation that toils with her youths will have glorious old age for the elderly and wealthy.

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Environment

Sustaining Biodiversity Conservation In Edo State

By SOLOMON ASOWATA

All over the world, the conservation of biodiversity has become a major challenge to countries because it has been identified as a key to sustainable development. The term, biodiversity, is a contraction of the expression, biological diversity. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) of the United Nations, defines it as the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part. This variability encompasses genetic, species, and ecosystem or habitat diversity.

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Issues

Toward A Better Economy In Kogi State

About 18 years after it was created, Kogi State is still struggling to find its feet in the area of economic development. Created on Aug. 27, 1991, by the military regime of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), the state was among those said to have become necessary to spread development to rural areas.

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Religion

Who Cares About Me? Who Cares About Me?

By Rev. ALONGE JOHN

WE CALL them “loners”-the kind who try to kill presidents or other notable persons. Why? Because they feel left out, rejected, overlooked, and of no account. They do some outlandish thing to put themselves in the public eye, declaring, “Look, I’m somebody.” Loneliness is a deep emotional sickness many people suffer, though most of them suffer in a kind of tragic silence.

 
 

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