The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has called on Governor Adams Oshiomhole to account for the alleged missing N320 million funds belonging to the State Universal Basic Education Board SUBEB. The State Chairman of the Party, Dan Orbih, made the call on Thursday while reacting to the state government’s statement that the sack [...]
Interview Special Adviser on Media to Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Mr. Kassim Afegbua, spoke to Adbe Emenyonu, on the controversy that greeted the local government elections in the state. Excerpts: What is your take on the local government elections in Edo State and the accusations that the governor skewed it in favour of [...]
The PDP said it has evidence the state fund was shared by five ACN members. The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has called on Governor Adams Oshiomhole to account for the alleged missing N320 million funds belonging to the State Universal Basic Education Board SUBEB. The State Chairman of the Party, Dan Orbih, [...]
Chinese authorities have launched an investigation into a powerful economic planning official accused by a prominent journalist of corruption, the latest high-level target of the new leadership’s anti-graft drive. The ruling Communist Party’s disciplinary agency said in a one-sentence statement on its website that Liu Tienan, deputy head of the Cabinet’s National Development and Reform [...]
The world-famous scientist had agreed to attend the Israeli Presidential Conference, hosted by president Shimon Peres, in late June, but changed his mind after four weeks of being pelted with requests not to go. Professor Hawking did not make a public announcement but a statement published by the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine with [...]
In a statement to reporters outside his house in the Lancashire County village of Pendleton, Mr. Evans said the complaints were four years old and were made “by two people who are well known to each other and who until yesterday I regarded as friends.” Mr. Evans, 55, was interrogated by the Lancashire police for [...]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken swipe at the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, for labelling members of the party as “rogues,” The party described, Oshiomhole as an ingrate who got to power by the grace of PDP’s magnanimity which he now vilifies. Oshiomhole had during a chat with journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, [...]
THE national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, to task over his labelling members of the party as “rogues,” reminding him that he got to power under the banner of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) by the grace of the PDP which he now vilifies. [...]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken swipe at the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, for labelling members of the party as “rogues,” The party described, Oshiomhole as an ingrate who got to power by the grace of PDP’s magnanimity which he now vilifies. Oshiomhole had during a chat with journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, [...]
The first ever road race over hills and sandy path in Nigeria, the Okpekpe Road Race, sponsored by national telecomms operator, Globacom, kicks off on May 4 at Okpekpe, Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State. A statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by Globacom stated that the 10-kilometre Okpekpe Road Race is the [...]
<!– Share Email Print –> Tweet Share Email Print Peres meets pope at Vatican, invites him to Israel April 30, 2013 (JTA) — Israeli President Shimon Peres told Pope Francis at a Vatican meeting that the new pontiff has an important role to play in shepherding the peace process. Tuesday’s meeting was the first diplomatic [...]
(CNN) — Call it the Treaty of Everest 2013. It’s a two-paragraph agreement, in both English and Nepalese, signed by climbers and Sherpas who on Saturday engaged in a donnybrook at 23,000 feet. Punches, kicks and even rocks were thrown, according to a statement posted Sunday on the website of one of the climbers, Simone [...]
Afghan boys play on a road on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, April 29, 2013.(Photo: Rahmat Gul, AP) KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A civilian cargo aircraft crashed at Bagram Air Field, north of the Afghan capital, soon after takeoff on Monday, killing all seven people aboard, the U.S.-led military coalition said. The Taliban quickly claimed [...]
The Syrian government issued a statement condemning the kidnapping, and saying that “it was confirmed that those who perpetrated this brutal act are Chechen mercenaries,” working for an militant Islamist rebel faction called the Nusra Front. The statement, reported by the Sana state news service, offered no evidence for the assertion that the kidnappers were [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday congratulated the Edo Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, on the governor’s 60th birthday on April 4. This is contained in a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati. In a letter to the governor, Jonathan said that Oshiomhole had lived a remarkable and eventful life in trade unionism, politics and governance [...]
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 The Court of Appeal sitting in Benin City, Edo State has declared the Umu Obi Obahai royal family of Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State as the only family qualified to produce Obi of Ogwashi-Uku. The court, in a unanimous judgment also upheld the appointment of the father of the Coordinating Minister for the Economy [...]
A group, the Delta Forces United, has flayed a recent statement credited to the Delta State Commissioner for Information, Chike Ogeah, advising Lagos lawyer, Festus Keyamo to remain as a legal practitioner instead of going into politics. The group, in a statement by its spokesperson, Frank Oshanugor, on Friday, said it took exception to “such [...]
THE former National President, Fugar Youths Forum (FYF), Mr. Solomon Obomighie have condemned in strong terms what he described as misinformation of the public concerning the purported allegation against Etsako Central local government especially Fugar by one Mr. Sylvester Samugana of Edo Broadcasting Service (EBS) during his ‘Walka about’ programme recently that Fugar is a [...]
Hafez Salama, former leader of the popular resistance in Suez, on Thursday called for forming a presidential council to save Egypt and urged President Mohamed Mursi and his brotherhood to withdraw from the political scene. Sheikh Salama warned Mursi and the Brotherhood of internal and external conspiracies against them and the cabinet, adding that Mursi [...]
More commendations Sunday greeted the emergence of the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Sun newspapers, Mr. Femi Adesina, as the President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE). While Governors Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State; Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State; Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Peter Obi of Anambra State all hailed Adesina’s appointment as good [...]
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