archiveSeptember 2020

Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, Ms Mariam Katagum, said on Saturday that registration for government’s N75 billion Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Survival Fund and Guaranteed Off-take programmes would tee off on Monday, September 21, 2020 Both components of the Nigerian government’s N2.3 trillion Economic Sustainability...

  Incumbent governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has been declared winner of the Edo State governorship election held on Saturday. baseki polled a total of 307, 955 votes to defeat All Progressives Congress’s Osagie Ize-Iyamu-Iyamu who got 223, 619 votes....

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the result of the much awaited Ovia South West Local Government of the state at 2.00 p.m. on Sunday, concluding the release of the results from all the 18 local government areas in Edo State. Thirteen results were initially announced...

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) on Saturday condemned the high rate of vote-trading in the Edo governorship election. CDD Director, Idayat Hassan, spoke at a press briefing in Abuja. The body released a preliminary report on the election. Hassan said reports that politicians, in an attempt to circumvent...

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday mourned victims of the motor accident on Akaeze-Ukwu River in Ebonyi State that claimed many lives on Friday night. His condolence message was contained in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, titled “President Buhari sympathises with Ebonyi...

Fourteen bodies have been recovered from the Akaeze-Ukwu River in Ebonyi state; site of the deadly motor accident which occurred on Friday night. This followed the location and recovery of the bus by divers brought in from neighboring states to aid in the search and rescue of the victims. The...

  Wife of Ondo State Governor, Mrs Betty Akeredolu, has commenced online registration of market women to ensure that they benefitted from the dividends of governance in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Akeredolu began the registration exercise on Saturday at Agagu market in Akure South...

  Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers on Saturday commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies for the peaceful conduct of Edo governorship election. Wike made the commendation while addressing journalists at Government House, Benin. He said: “For now I don’t have power to announce results, but from...

  gives cinemas, gyms go ahead to open on conditions orders structural integrity test on school buildings   The Lagos State Government has approved the full reopening of churches and mosques in the state even as it has given the go ahead for cinemas and gyms to reopen as soon...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has begun uploading the Edo governorship results from polling units on its online portal. The INEC Result Viewing Portal (IREV) is a dedicated public portal, that enable voters to view polling unit results real time as the voting ends on election day. Festus...