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 …
Read More »NNPC/CNL JV and EGCDF Commission 11 Projects in Delta State
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 …
Read More »Intend Petrol Price Increase: NNPC allays Fear Against Hike In Price By May
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 …
Read More »Undergraduate Lovers, Selling Drug Cookies To Fellow Students And School Children Busted By NDLEA In Abuja
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 …
Read More »New AIG assumes duty in Benin
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 …
Read More »Imo Prison Break: Nine Escapees Nigerian Inmates Re-Arrest in Ghana
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 …
Read More »19 trafficked children, 6 women rescued in Edo
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 …
Read More »Edo EIRS boss reels out gains of tax digitalization, urges strengthening of fiscal, social contract
…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 …
Read More »Obaseki mourns death of Nowamagbe Omoigui at 62
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, …
Read More »Edo Polytechnic secures full accreditation for Mass Communication, 5 other programmes
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 …
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