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The Edo State Government has praised the outstanding performance of Olympics 100m athlete, Enoch Adegoke, who took part in the final 100m track event in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games. Edo State Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Comrade Philip Shaibu who addressed journalists in Benin City, on the performance of Adegoke noted that if not for […]

BENIN CITY – The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said the state government is collaborating with the judiciary and the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), to ensure conviction of traffickers. Obaseki said the state government plans to go after assets and properties of persons behind the trafficking of […]

The Afro-Urban entertainment powerhouse, Trace, has begun the distribution of Nigeria’s first feature-length animated movie “Lady Buckit and the Motley Mopsters,” (LBMM) after a deal with Hot Ticket Productions to distribute the film globally. Trace who hold rights for television channels, mobile operators, video platforms, aerial, and maritime video services and cinema are a critical […]

The Nigeria Customs Service has concluded plans to deploy three scanners to the ports in Lagos State as part of efforts to tackle the congestions. The Service Zonal Coordinator of Zone A Headquarters, Assistant Comptroller General, Modupe Aremu stated that management would soon switch over to a new electronic scheme that would further aid customs […]

The Nasarawa State House of Assembly has directed its House Committee on Education, Science, and Technology to investigate the purported employment of 366 secondary school teachers by the office of the state Accountant General. The Speaker Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Balarabe Abdullahi, gave the directive after the Chairman, House Committee on Education, Science, and […]

The Nigerian Government says it will soon commence the next batch of the COVID-19 vaccination in the country. Minister of Health in the country, Dr Osagie Ehanire announced this in Abuja, at the National joint Media briefing. He said this is possible with the arrival 4,000,080 doses of Moderna vaccines, donated by the United States […]

Nigeria has left the Maritime Organisation for West and Central Africa (MOWCA) following the disregard for the rules of procedure regarding the eligibility of candidates nominated for the position of the Secretary-General of the organization. This was contained in a statement by the delegation of the Federal Republic of Nigeria at the 8th Bureau of […]

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a lady passenger at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja in Lagos state with thirty-five wraps of cocaine. In a press statement by the Director Media and Advocacy NDLEA Headquarters Abuja, Mr Femi Babafemi said the suspect, Okafor Ebere Edith, was arrested on July 31, […]

The Association of African Universities (AAU) says the secured sum of $390,000 funding from Carnegie Corporation of New York will address systemic and data gaps in Africa’s higher education as well as build resilient, and quality education system across the African continent. The Secretary-General of the AAU, Professor Etienne Ehile disclosed this in a statement […]

BENIN CITY – The indigenes of Amagba Community in Oredo Local Government Area (LGA) of Edo State have commended the revocation of the title to a land measuring 18 hectares in their community purportedly belonging to Osagie Ize-Iyamu by the state governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki. In a statement signed by the Odionwere of Amagba, Hon. […]