Month: August 2019

  • Benin Monarch Says Fight Against Illegal Migration Is Not Targeted Against Anyone

    By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin City The Benin monarch Omo N’Oba Ewuare the second has hinted that the palace onslaught against illegal migration and human trafficking is not targeted against anyone wishing to travel abroad, but aimed at eradicating the monstrous scourge currently bedevilling the state. Oba Ewuare stressed that great successes have been recorded from…

  • We ll run an inclusive government…. Kw Dep Gov

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin Kwara State government will run an inclusive administration to take care of the interest of all stakeholders and the people. State Deputy Governor Kayode Alabi, who stated this on Thursday in Ilorin while receiving Oke-Ero Local Government APC Ward Chairmen during a visit to his office, assured the people that the…

  • Dissolve Edo Exco Now, Group Tells PDP

    By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin City Stakeholders in Edo PDP are threatening court action if the National leadership of the party fail to dissolve the state executive and conduct fresh congresses. They say they want the national leadership of the Party to carry out the dissolution before the conduct of the 2020 gubernatorial election in the…

  • DSS Parades Two Internet Fraudsters In Edo

    By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin City Two internet fraudsters, Amos Ehi Asuelimen(30 years) and Kelvin Godwin Ogashi(18 years) have confessed that they created social media accounts with the name of the Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo and the First Lady, Aisha Muhammadu Buhari to defraud Nigerians for financial gains. The duo spoke while being…

  • N150m Plaza: Kwara govt queries official after house forfeiture

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin Kwara State Government on Friday queried the top civil servant linked to the N150m property forfeited to the Federal government. “In line with the civil service rules and procedure and the anti-corruption posture of the new administration, the Head of Service (HOS), Mrs Oluwole Susan, on Friday ordered that the affected…

  • Kwara understudies FG’s Trader-Moni to fight poverty

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin The Kwara State Government is understudying the TraderMoni programme of the Federal Government to extend soft loans to traders and reduce mass poverty in the state. “On Friday, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq visited the Abuja headquarters of the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP), the implementers of the TraderMoni initiative, with a…

  • Court orders final forfeiture of Kwara civil servant’s N150m plaza to FG

    By Steve Oni, Ilorin A high court sitting in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, has ordered the final forfeiture of N150 million plaza belonging to a civil servant in the state. Ilorin zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) urged the court to give an order of final forfeiture of Asmau Plaza…

  • Edo University Gets Tetfund Enlistment

    By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin City The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has been enlisted Edo University Iyamho as a beneficiary of the annual intervention after its visit to the institution in May 2019. The enlistment, which was announced during a brief ceremony by the Executive Secretary of TETFund, Prof. Suleiman Elias Bagoro, represented by Barr.…

  • Edo Assembly Crisis: CNPP Berates NASS

    By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin City Edo State chapter of Conference of Nigerian Political Parties ( CNPP) has condemned the recent decisions of the National Assembly directing the state governor, Godwin Obaseki to re issue a letter of proclamation for the inauguration of the state House of assembly. The National Assembly will recalled on Tuesday directed…