As part of their corporate social responsibility, Peayang Chemical Equipment Cooperation (PCC) and African Investment Partner (AIP) have commenced remedial work on the failed portion of the Benin-Sapele highway. The work is a joint effort by PCC and AIP as co-founders of Edo Refinery with the objective to ameliorate the sufferings currently being experienced by…
Fight Against Human Trafficking: NAPTIP Honours Okunbo as Greatest Individual Ally
Names him Man of the Year 2020. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has named the Chairman of Ocean Marines Solution and prominent Edo son, Idahosa Wells Okunbo as its Man of the Year 2020. The anti-human trafficking agency said the honour, which was in commemoration of the 2020 World…
Inaugurate Pius Odubu-led NDDC Board Now – HOSTCON Spokesman Urges Buhari
Recently, the national leadership of the Host Communities of Nigeria, HOSTCON, and other stakeholders from the 10 oil producing communities in the country held a meeting where they advocated the dissolution of the Interim Management Committee running the Niger Delta Development Commission where humongous corruption has been reported. In this interview with Adekunbi Ero, executive…
Delta Petrol Tanker Fire: 3 Persons Died, 3 Injured, Four Vehicles Burnt – FRSC
The Delta State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Alphonsus Halim Godwin, has confirmed the death of three persons in the petrol tanker fire that occurred on Wednesday around Koko junction along the Benin-Sapele Road. Contrary to an earlier media reports that no fewer than 20 persons were reportedly burnt beyond recognition,…
APC Upbraids Obaseki Over Flooding Problem in Edo Amidst Concerns Raised by NEMA
Edo State Media Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the September 19, 2020 governorship election in the state has queried the readiness of the Godwin Obaseki-led government to heed the warnings of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, and put in place proactive measures to avert disaster and destruction of properties in…
Delta Government to Introduce Property Tax to Enhance Revenue
Property owners in Delta State would soon start paying taxes on their choice properties as the government moves to introduce property tax in urban areas. This is part of measures by the state government to boost its revenue base. Charles Aniagwu, the state commissioner for information who announced this on Tuesday, said this was part…
Sack NDDC Interim Management Now – Itse Sagay tells Buhari
Insists forensic audit can be done under regular board. The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, (PACAC) Prof. Itse Sagay has suggested a clean sweep of the embattled management of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, amidst the multi-billion naira scandal rocking the interventionist agency. Sagay, senior advocate of Nigeria, SAN, who described…
Over 50,000 Persons Benefit from Obaseki’s Agricultural Programmes
No fewer than 50,000 persons, including farmers, logistics operators and food processors, farm managers, among others, have in the past three and a half years, benefited from agricultural programmes implemented by Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki. In a statement in Benin, special adviser to the governor on media and communication strategy, Crusoe Osagie, said the…
We Are Making Steady Progress on Gelegele Port Project – Edo Govt
The Edo State Government has assured that the Benin City River Port Project is on course, as the screening of the project’s transaction advisor to coordinate the various stakeholders to deliver the project intensifies. Work on the dualisation of the Ekehuan link-road to the port, which connects the port city to the city centre and…
NBC’s Code Of Expired Values
From Tunde Akanni Monday June 22, 2020 was an unusually tragic day in Lagos reinforcing the pre-existing atmosphere of multiple rape cases all over the country. On that day alone, two couples were found dead in their respective apartments in different parts of Lagos. In each of the two cases, the man had killed the…
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