as HoS requests list of potential candidates from varsities The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has approved the automatic employment of First Class graduates of Edo origin in all Nigerian universities into the state's civil and public service. The approval was conveyed by the Edo State Head of Service,...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said its Accelerated Agricultural Development Scheme (AADS) is on course in Bayelsa State and that allegations bordering on fraud in the programme were untrue. The apex bank made the clarification during a courtesy visit of its Yenagoa Branch Controller, Mr. Francis Ene-Asuquo, and...
The Delta APC Gubernatorial Campaign Organisation has hailed the emergence of the immediate past Deputy Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Friday Ossai Osanebi as running mate to Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the Delta APC governorship candidate in next year's election. Osanebi who was nominated yesterday in a...
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has charged the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor to reduce the level of insurgency in the country. Citing terrorism as one of the biggest existential threat to the country, the governor said he will liaise with the Nigerian Governors Forum...
Churches in Akwa Ibom State have been tasked to rise to the divinely ordained responsibilities of helping the government to shape up the society and upholding leaders in prayers. Governor Udom Emmanuel stated this on Friday at Qua Iboe Church, 2 Abak Road, Uyo, where he, in company of his...
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said his administration plans to launch a N1 billion Fund for widows, whose livelihoods were adversely affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the state. He disclosed this while addressing a cross-section of women at an event in Government House, Benin City,...
Delta Government on Monday said it had begun active case search in six local government areas in a bid to check community transmission of COVID-19 in the state. The Commissioner for Health, Dr Mordi Ononye, disclosed this in Asaba at a news briefing by the Technical Committee on COVID-19 Response...
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Wednesday, announced the gift of a house and the sum of N1 million to an outstanding Biology Teacher in the state, Mrs. Benedicta Idele, who emerged as the first runner-up in the 2020 Maltina Teacher of the Year Award. Obaseki made the...
says he has shown leadership in N'Delta region Bayelsa Governor, Senator Douye Diri, today at his Government House residence received former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori. The former Governor who was on his way to Amassoma for the Amassoma "Seigbein oge" festival was received by Governor Diri,...
Akwa Ibom State Government has announced the extension of the lockdown order in the state by one week. Secretary to the State Government, Dr Emmanuel Ekuwem, who announced the extension in a statement on Thursday, however, said that residents would be allowed seven hours each on Friday and Saturday to...