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Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has officially commissioned the rehabilitated power sub-station for Michika and Madagali Local Government aryeas which gulped ₦283.8m. The local government areas have been without electricity after Boko Haram insurgents damaged power lines and installations which cut off power supply from the national grid subjecting the people to a total blackout for over six years. Speaking at the ceremony that held in Michika town on Tuesday, Governor Umaru Fintiri revealed that the electricity project covers major towns of Baza, Watu, Michika Shuwa, Gulak and Madagali in the northern part of the state. The governor maintained that developing rural communities remained the priority of his administration so as to enable people at the grassroot contribute their quota to national development. Governor Umaru Fintiri urged the people in the two local government areas to take full advantage of the electricity by engaging in commercial activities that will improve their income...

Hundreds of beneficiaries of the Edo State Skills Development Agency (EdoJobs) in Akoko Edo Local Government Area (LGA) have dismissed claims by the former Chief of Staff to the Edo State Governor, Mr. Taiwo Akerele, that there are no beneficiaries of the government’s employment agency in the local government, describing the former Chief of Staff as an enemy of Edo youths. The beneficiaries under the aegis of EdoJobbers Association in Akoko Edo, in a statement to refute the false claim, noted: “We are proud to state that among us are people that EdoJobs has empowered with jobs, those who have started their solar panel installation businesses, and those employed by the civil service and the Edo State Traffic Management Agency (EDSTMA), among others. The statement was jointly signed by the President of the association, Isreal Alegbe, and 28 others. They include Abu Jackson Friday, Bayode Lugard, Jimoh .E. Jonah, Adomokhai  Sylvester , Olorunda  Lewis, Akpara Francis, Olorunbe Ar...

The Ijaws in Edo State have applauded Governor Godwin Obaseki for engendering economic development and improving the lives of Edo people, reaffirming support for the governor’s reelection bid to ensure continuity of his sterling performance and consolidation of good governance in the state. The Ijaw communities under the aegis of ‘Ethnic Nationality’, declared their support for Obaseki’s second term bid when they paid a courtesy visit to the governor at the Government House, Benin City. Commending the governor for his achievements, representatives of the communities, High Chief Hon. Joel Wodubamo; Prominent Chief Hon. Daniel Agagha, and Mr. Ebiye Milton, urged Governor Obaseki not to relent in his vision of transforming the state and positively impacting the lives of Edo people. Receiving the governor's supporters, the First Lady, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki, said: “There can be no meaningful development in an atmosphere of rancor. Development is a gradual process and I urge you to always e...

Governor Samuel Ortom Tuesday signed into law, the revised appropriation bill of N108.8 billion for the year 2020. The revised budget has a total reduction of N80 billion from the earlier N190.8bn assented to by the Governor. This translates to 43 per cent reduction in the earlier reviewed budget signed by the Governor on 30th December, 2020. Governor Ortom while performing the ceremony, said the action became necessary following the reduction in oil-related and non oil revenues to the state occasioned by Coronavirus. The revised budget has reccurent expenditure of N68.6bn representing 40 per cent reduction from the former estimates and personnel cost of N37.3bn, representing a reduction of 26 per cent, while overhead cost and capital projects have estimates of N31.3bn and 40.3bn respectively, representing 51 and 46 percent reduction. The Governor explained that despite the huge reduction in the current expenditure estimates, government had kept faith with its responsibility to the gen...

Members of the Rivers State Judicial Service Commission have been charged to make the state judiciary the best in the country.  Governor Nyesom Wike gave the charge today Tuesday in Port Harcourt while swearing in four members of the commission.  He urged the members to work as a team and not resort to any form of infighting. "Do not bring in ethnic sentiments into this assignment. You have to make our state the shining light in judicial matters." "Nobody lobbied for anyone of you to be appointed. You were all chosen on merit to work for the interest of the state." "Your role is to stabilise the Judiciary and make it vibrant because without the Judiciary there will be no hope for the country." "With the composition of the commission with statutory and non-statutory members, the state expects the best in terms of performance”, he stated. The governor also enjoined the commission to fill the existing vacancies in the State High Court and Customary Court...

We feel sorry for the sacked National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. He is clearly a frustrated man who is clutching at straws in desperate effort to save his drowning political career. The childish Mercedes and Toyota analogy goes to show that Oshiomhole has run out of lies to tell. He keeps trying to turn the story of the Edo Specialist Hospital on its head but has failed to answer a simple question which is; why did heavily guarded trucks come in the dead of the night to remove the equipment in the hospital which President Buhari had commissioned just one day after the commissioning? Why was the hospital not opened to the public for the remaining days of his tenure after the hospital had been commissioned? The answer is clear and it is that Oshiomhole had given the contract to equip the hospital to his girlfriend and instead of buying the hospital equipment after she was mobilised with 75 percent upfront payment, she lodged the money in her fixe...

The Edo State PDP Governorship Campaign Council (EPDPGCC) has asked the disgraced former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, to stop deceiving himself as the elders and leaders of Edo state cannot be swayed by his pretenses and deceptive genuflections. The Obaseki Campaign described Oshiomhole as a self-confessed liar and political swindler, who can no longer enjoy the trust and confidence of the people, including members of his party, the APC, who not only suspended him but kicked him out as a national chairman on account of his penchant for deception. It is sad that Oshiomhole thinks that he can use his antics, orchestrations and stage-managed kneeling to suddenly grip the elders and leaders of Edo state in his voodoo of deception, to accept the same individual he exposed as a fake pastor and treasury looter, who is only fit for "night meetings" and should not be trusted with the position of the governor of Edo State. Oshiomhole ought...