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Team Not Playing Against Atlas Lions, Says NFF The Super Eagles will set up a camp in Asaba, Delta State on Saturday, June 2, to commence their preparations for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations holding in Egypt. The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Director of Communications, Ademola Olajire, said yesterday …

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has said it has uncovered plans by the federal government to commence oil drilling in Ogoniland using security agencies and criminally minded non-state actors as shield, and vowed that it would resist such attempts. It alleged that oil operations, with …

Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, has said that the state government was working hard to decongest the Apapa Wharf and move some commercial activities from Lagos to the state through the Gelegele seaport. Shaibu who said that the Federal Government has given approval for the establishment of the …

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, Francis Inegbiniki, declared that the current political structure being built by governor Godwin Obaseki ahead the 2020 governorship election will not lead him to victory but failure. Inegbeneki, who also was the APC senatorial candidate for Edo Central in …

As the race for the leadership of the ninth assembly becomes fierce, six state chairmen of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the South-south zone have endorsed Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege for the position of the Deputy Senate President. Their endorsement was contained in a letter addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari; …

Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, told his friend and former Minister of State for Education, Kenneth Gbagi, who he slumped in his hands, during the funeral ceremonies of former Military Governor of defunct Midwest Region, late Major General David Ejoor, in Delta State, to “take me away from …

The former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, , has described the late Industrialist, late Kenekueyero Omatseye as one man who led him into politics. Ibori who was at the Omatseye Villa, to pay his condolence visit on the demise of the Patriarch of the family, Sir KB, Omatseye said …

THE Diocese of Ughelli, Anglican Communion, has advised the Federal Government against continued external borrowings in order not to further plunge the economy into another recession. The Diocese in a communique issued after its first session of the eighth Synod, held at St. Luke’s Church, Otovwodo-Ughelli in Ughelli North Local …

Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has offered automatic employment to all PhD holders of the state origin, as well as those from other Ijaw-speaking states in the country. The governor said beneficiaries of the offer included Ijaw from Ondo, Edo, Delta, Rivers and Akwa Ibom states. The state Commissioner for …