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Barring any last minute change in schedule, the Edo StateHouse of Assembly is expected to meet with representativesof Seplat Petroleum Company PLC and Orogho CommunityLeaders today.The house had resolved at Tuesday plenary to invite bothgroups after a presentation of its standing committee oncommunity and chieftaincy affairs.The committee had confirmed through its findings that thedisputed community land was indeed ...

The Edo State Government has set up a committee to checkcases of homicide in the state.Governor Godwin Obaseki made this known after the monthlySecurity Council meeting held at the Government House,Benin City.He told journalists that the government was working inpartnership with security agencies to address the menace.According to the governor, the State Security Council has alsomandated the National Drug...

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba,has met with some former IGPs, including the Chairman ofthe Police Service Commission, Solomon Arase, to review theperformance of the force.The meeting which was held behind closed doors at theheadquarters of the PSC in Abuja was aimed at strengtheningactivities of the Nigeria Police.At the end of the meeting, a former IGP Sunday Ehinderocommended the Usman fo...

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The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers (NUPENG) says that its National Executive Council will communicate its position on the ongoing debate over the planned removal of subsidy on petroleum after its NEC meeting.However, another major union in the sector – Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has kicked against subsidy removal, stressing that the move should be suspended, because the present administration did not provide the r...

To fast-track the development of the Benin Port Project, the Project Delivery Team has completed the Request for Qualification, which sets actions in motion to accelerate the realization of the project.In a statement, the Chairman, Benin Port Project, Engineer Greg Ogbeifun, said following the due process earlier initiated Governor Godwin Obaseki, the Minister of Transportation had set up the Project Steering Committee and Project Delivery Team to ensure realization of the p...

The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Aviation, has acquired RPA-200MC mobile 3D primary radars for the aviation sector.The first of the nine primary radars procured arrived in the country at the weekend.The primary 3D radar supplied by IN-VAP is the first export of its kind between Argentina and any African country.Maiduguri will receive the first radar, while the other eight radars will be located to Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt,...

Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Okon Effiong, has ordered the immediate arrest of a yet-to-identified policeman seen in a viral video assaulting a man at Elibrade junction in the Emohua Local Government Area of the state.CP Effiong also said the other policemen seen at the location while their colleague assaulted the man should be identified and arrested.The video showed the moment a policeman holding a rifle in his left hand and a whip in his right us...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), says it is not responsible for regulating social media networks and contents.The submission came during a recent visit of the National Civil Society Council of Nigeria, led by its Executive Secretary, Blessing Akinsolotu.He sought the intervention of the commission on some worrisome and misleading content on social media platforms.The NCC Director, of Public Affairs, Reuben Muoka, however, info...