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The Delta State government has banned 41 teachers from supervising school examinations over the next three years.  The punishment was dished out by the state’s Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Patrick Ukah, over alleged infractions by the affected teaching staff during the 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examination. […]

Babajide Akeredolu, son of Ondo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has threatened to sue deputy governor of the state, Mr Agboola Ajayi, for accusing him of making N433m from the N4.3bn stashed in a secret government account in the state.  Ajayi had on Saturday alleged that the governor’s son made the […]

Nigerian health workers have suspended their seven-day strike action. Umbrella body for the workers, the Joint Health Sector Unions, called on members to resume at their duty post on Monday (today). The health workers, who abandoned work on September 14, are agitating for improved welfare and payment of COVID-19 special […]

General Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd.), Ex-Nigerian Head of State, has called on Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, to serve the people of the state well as compensation for voting him into office for the second time. While commending the peaceful conduct of the exercise, the former military leader said other states […]

Yiaga Africa, a non-governmental organisation, has called on the National Assembly in Nigeria to swiftly legalise the electronic transmission of results from polling units. The group also hailed the Independent National Electoral Commission for not tampering or altering the results of the just concluded Edo State governorship election. Yiaga Africa […]

The United Kingdom has congratulated Godwin Obaseki on his re-election as governor of Edo State. The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, congratulated Obaseki in a tweet on Sunday. She also commended the people for a credible electoral process in the state. Laing also expressed gratitude to civil society […]