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State of the Local Government Councils

State of the Local Government Councils

| May 13, 2013 | 0 Comments

ShareThis In view of the seeming premeditated acts of lawlessness by some thugs and hirelings of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who besieged many of the Local Government Council Headquarters on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 causing mayhem, presumably spurred by a recent court judgement which declared the transition government in the 18 LGAs illegal, [...]

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Edo State Government rolls out levies for drivers

Edo State Government rolls out levies for drivers

| February 25, 2013 | 0 Comments

Edo State Government has rolled out the daily levies and rates to be paid by operators in the commercial transport sector in the state. In a release by the Chief of Staff, Hon Patrick Obahiagbon, the Government said while its ban on the collection of rates by some unions in the sector remains in force, [...]

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Edo gets $75m aid from World Bank

Edo gets $75m aid from World Bank

| April 15, 2012 | 0 Comments

Edo gets $75m aid from World Bank   Published on April 15, 2012 by pmnews   ·   No Comments World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved a $75 million concessional credit to the Edo State Government for its Growth and Employment Support Programme. The approved credit will be in the form of budget support similar to [...]

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Nigeria: World Bank Approves U.S.$75 Million Dollar Concessional Credit to Nigeria

| April 15, 2012 | 0 Comments

The World Bank has authorized a 75million-dollar concessional credit to Nigeria for a First Edo State Growth and Employment Support Program. A matter released by Mr Bamidele Oladokun, Communication Associate, External Affairs, Africa Region of a World Bank on Thursday in Abuja, pronounced that a credit was authorized on Mar 29. The matter combined that [...]

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Edo to receive $75 million budget support from World Bank

| April 14, 2012 | 0 Comments

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved a US$75 million concessional credit to Nigeria for the First Edo State Growth and Employment Support Programme.  The approved credit is similar to the budget support extended to Lagos  State last year. The  World Bank,in a statement , said: “The credit has been provided in recognition [...]

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World Bank approves $75m dollar concessional credit to Nigeria

| April 14, 2012 | 0 Comments

The World Bank has authorized a 75-million-dollar concessional credit to Nigeria for a First Edo State Growth and Employment Support Program. A matter released by Mr Bamidele Oladokun, Communication Associate, External Affairs, Africa Region of a World Bank on Thursday in Abuja, pronounced that a credit was authorized on Mar 29. The matter combined that [...]

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World Bank grants Edo State $75m credit

| April 13, 2012 | 0 Comments

| Print | E-mail Written by Christian Okeke, Abuja Friday, 13 April 2012 Share The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved the sum of US$75 million concessional credit for the first Edo State Growth and Employment Support Programme. The fund will be in the form of budget support similar to that which the bank extended to [...]

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Edo agribusiness investment limit seeks policies to urge productivity

| April 13, 2012 | 0 Comments

As partial of a Adams Oshiomhole administration’s envisioned growth plan focused on good governance, a Edo State supervision will be organising a 1st Edo State Agribusiness Investment Summit that aims to urge capability in a state. The limit already slated for Apr 23 during a Best Western Hotel in Benin City, seeks to clear and [...]

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Corps Members Now To Serve In Schools, Hospitals In Edo

| March 31, 2012 | 0 Comments

EDO State Government has directed that all Youth Corps members posted to the state will henceforth be deployed in schools and health institutions and a few other establishments where their skills will be maximally utilized. The State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole made this known yesterday at a One-Day “Orientation Programme to equip Corps Members on [...]

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Vote Wisely In 2012 Guber Poll -Ojeabu

| March 30, 2012 | 0 Comments

BENIN CITY-Esan people resident at home and abroad have been called upon to vote wisely in the forth coming election in Edo State. Hon. Commissioner for Energy and Water Resources, Mr. Calistus Ochie Ojeabu made this appeal when he received in audience members of the Edo Volunteer Force, Esan South East Local Government. Commissioner Ojeabu [...]

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Central Hospital Dental Centre Gets College Accreditation

| March 29, 2012 | 0 Comments

    BENIN CITY –The Dental Centre of a Central Hospital Benin City, has been accredited by a Faculty of General Dental Practice of National Post Graduate Medical Colleges of Nigeria for residency training in ubiquitous dental practice. This was in serve to a progressing accreditation of a Central Hospital for a training of Residents [...]

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Edo govt orders closure of two orphanage homes

| March 29, 2012 | 0 Comments

BY GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE BENIN – THE Edo State government Wednesday ordered the temporary closure of two orphanages in the state over non compliance with the standing rules and regulations governing child care institutions. A statement by the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Chief (Dr) Inumidun Idehen gave the names of the orphanages as [...]

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EDSG Rewards Akande For Honesty, Resilience

| March 27, 2012 | 0 Comments

BENIN CITYEdo State Government has presented the sum of N5 million to a member of the Nigeria Civil Defence Corps, Mrs. Elizabeth Akande for her resilience and honesty in the face of grievous threat to her life. Presenting the money to the woman at Government House in Benin City, Edo State Governor, Comrade [...]

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Edo State Hosts MBGN

Edo State Hosts MBGN

| March 24, 2012 | 0 Comments

Edo State Hosts MBGN   Published on March 23, 2012 by pmnews   ·   No Comments The 2012 edition of the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria, MBGN pageant will hold in Benin, capital of Edo State The selection process, according to the organisers, will begin in Benin, Port Harcourt and Lagos, where at least 50 girls will [...]

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Oshiomhole restores Teachers Salary Allowance, slashes PAYE by 40%

| March 22, 2012 | 0 Comments

BY GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE BENIN – EDO State Government has easy a aged Teachers Salary Allowance enjoyed by teachers in a state. Governor Adams Oshiomhole who done a avowal yesterday during a assembly with a executives of a Nigeria Union of Teachers and Academic Staff Union of Secondary School (ASUSS) also sensitive a teachers of government’s [...]

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Oshiomhole Lauds Dame Jonathan For Peace Initiative

| March 22, 2012 | 0 Comments

  BENIN CITY- Edo State Government has commended a First Lady, Dame Patience Goodluck Jonathan for providing care for a women in a nation and championing a means of assent in a country. The Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole who finished a admiration in Benin City when a Women Advocacy for Peace, Edo [...]

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Iyagun-Ewohimi Water Scheme for completion

| March 15, 2012 | 0 Comments

  BENIN CITY-Respite will shortly come to a people of Ewohimi as a Edo State Government is set to finish a reconstruction work on a lyagun Ewohimi Water Scheme. The Energy and Water Resources Commissioner, Mr. Calistus Ojieabu who was full of praises for a constrictive organisation doing a project, Messers Tomline, suggested that a [...]

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Nigeria might horde Rwanda diversion in Benin City

| March 9, 2012 | 0 Comments

Nigeria competence horde a lapse leg of their initial turn 2013 Africa Cup of Nations gift diversion opposite Rwanda in Benin City in June. The Edo State supervision is meddlesome in hosting a diversion during a Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium according to reports in The Guardian. The paper quoted unnamed officials of a Nigeria Football Federation [...]

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Nigerian boxers to undertake training tour of Africa

| March 9, 2012 | 0 Comments

Mr Patrick Uwagbale, the Secretary, Nigerian Boxing Federation (NBF), says boxers will soon begin their training tour of African countries, ahead of the London 2012 Olympic qualifiers in Casablanca, Morocco. Uwagbaleh told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Benin where the boxers are camping for two months before the qualifiers, that the [...]

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Benin lobbies to host Eagles – Guardian

| March 7, 2012 | 0 Comments

There are early indications that the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin, may host the second leg of the South Africa 2013 Africa Nations Cup qualifier between the Super Eagles and Wasps of Rwanda if ongoing discussions between the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and the Edo State Government tallies. According to ‘The Guardian’, officials of Edo State Government were at [...]

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