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Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, yesterday, gave reasons for the demolition of the property of some key members of the past administration in Edo state.

The immediate past deputy governor of the state, Dr. Pius Odubu, Professor Julius Ihonvbere, former Secretary to the State Government, SSG, and Mike Itemuagbon who is sports promoter, had last week seen their properties demolished.

The Secretary to the Edo State Government (SSG), Mr. Osarodion Ogie, in a statement in Benin, said the C 0f Os of the property was revoked on December 21, 2020, as they were government property which ex-Comrade governor …

The Governor of Delta State Ifeanyi Okowa has revealed that his government has sent a protest letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over James Ibori’s loot recovered by the federal government.

Okowa stated this when he appeared on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, on Wednesday.

A few weeks ago, the UK committed to returning the £4.2 million loot recovered from Ibori, a former Delta governor and his associates.

However, the attorney-general of the federation, Abubakar Malami, insisted the money should go to the federal government and not Delta state.

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Obadiah Mailafia, who is a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),  yesterday stated the security situation in the country presently was worse than it was during the regime of the Late Gen. Sani Abacha.

Mailafia made this assertion on Channels Television while reacting to Saturday’s attack on Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom by gunmen.

According to him, ‘This attempt on the life of an executive governor and incumbent of a state is an attempted attack on the entire people of the state. Those who are trying to do this wicked thing need to understand …

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has warned secessionist agitators such as ex-militant leader, Asari Dokubo, and the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB to stay away from the state.

Gov. Wike stated this while receiving the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru, on a courtesy visit at Government House, Port Harcourt on Tuesday.

He went further to declare that Rivers State would not be part of any move to secede from the country

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Recall that the Rivers State-based agitator, Dokubo had recently formed what he described …

The Senate has commenced moves to unbundle the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) with the consideration of a bill to repeal the Nigerian Postal Service Act 2004.

The bill, which scaled second reading on Tuesday, was sponsored by Senator Oluremi Tinubu (APC, Lagos Central).

Tinubu said the legislation seeks a reform of the Postal Industry and to make Comprehensive Provisions for the Development and Regulation of Postal Services in Nigeria.

The lawmaker recalled NIPOST dates back 1852 and evolved from an exigency of the colonial administration to a Collection Office of the United Kingdom.

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United Arab Emirates’ Finance Minister and deputy ruler of Dubai, Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum is dead.

He died at the age of 75.

NAN reports that his death was announced in a statement released by the Dubai media office on Wednesday.

According to the statement, UAE President Khalifa bin Zayed ordered that flags be flown at half-mast across the country until Saturday to mark three days of mourning.

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It also stated that Hamdan who had been unwell, underwent surgery abroad in 2020; though further details were not disclosed.…

There is serious relief as rebel administration in eastern Libya has officially handed power to the country’s new interim government, based in the capital, Tripoli.

A handover ceremony took place on Tuesday in Libya’s second city, Benghazi, headquarters until now of the eastern administration.

A new Government of National Unity, led by Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah and backed by the UN, was sworn in last week in Tripoli to replace the two rival administrations which have been fighting for control of Libya.

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In France, President Emmanuel Macron announced that …

Officials in the United States on Tuesday stated that North Korea fired two missiles off its west coast over the weekend in its first publicly known weapons test since Joe Biden took office as president in January.

Two senior officials from the Biden administration told reporters in a briefing call that the North Korean activity involved weapons systems that were not covered by UN Security Council testing bans.

Two other US officials, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, told news correspondents that North Korea had fired two short-range missiles but declined to elaborate.

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Major General Adeyemi Yekini, who is the Force Commander of Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS), has stated that a standing patrol would be established in the general area where Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom was attacked by gunmen a few days ago.

Africa Daily News had earlier reported that Ortom was attacked on Saturday in Tyomu, a rural community situated at the outskirts of Makurdi while returning from his farm.

However, while conducting journalists in Makurdi around the Tyomu vast area by the river Benue bank on Tuesday, Yekini, said the deployment of more troops to the place was necessary to …

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi has cautioned against the use of social media to create falsehood just as he advised agitators of Nigeria’s breakup to channel their energy into demanding quality governance and devolution of power.

Oba Akanbi while addressing journalists in his palace earlier on Monday also called on Nigerians in the Diaspora to exercise caution in contributing to the discussions so as not to fuel division in the country.

While noting that a divided Nigeria could mean failure for the black race because Nigeria …