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1 week ago | 
leadership.ng | Patrick Ochoga
Hon. Nicholas Asonsere, the member representing Ikpoba Okha Constituency in the Edo State House of Assembly, has officially defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). His defection, which brings the number of APC members in the House to 15, was announced at a gathering of APC members in Benin City on Tuesday.
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1 week ago | 
leadership.ng | Patrick Ochoga
The Warri Media Group on Monday debunked the claims of linking the Gbaramatu area to ancient Royal traditions in the Niger Delta, noting its monarchies were only instituted only in 2017. In a statement made available to journalists in Warri and signed by Augustus Akperi, the Warri Media Group, while dismissing the claim, maintained that Gbaramatu does not qualify as a historic kingdom by the standards recognised across the region.
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1 week ago | 
leadership.ng | Patrick Ochoga
As Nigerians continue to make significant strides in their academic pursuits abroad, young Miss Osariemen Unuigbe, 18, born to Nigerian immigrants in the United States, has become a source of pride for the nation as she earned admission offered from six Ivy League Colleges, thanks to her outstanding academic accomplishments.
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2 weeks ago | 
leadership.ng | Patrick Ochoga
The governor of Edo State, Senator Monday Okpeholo, has restated his administration’s commitment to the welfare of Edo workers, noting that a better welfare package is underway for workers in the state.
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2 weeks ago | 
leadership.ng | Patrick Ochoga
The sole representative of the Olu of Warri to NNPC/JV Partners, Prince Collins Oritsetimeyin Edema, has described allegation linking oil surveillance company, Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited (PINL) to the protest which disrupted Ogidigben oil field in Ugborodo, Warri South-West local government area of Delta State as totally misleading and false.
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2 weeks ago | 
leadership.ng | Patrick Ochoga
Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo has come to the aid of a family reportedly held at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) over their inability to pay medical bills, settling the outstanding charges and facilitating their discharge.
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2 weeks ago | 
leadership.ng | Patrick Ochoga
Private school owners in Edo State yesterday staged a peaceful protest in Benin over what they described as an “alarming increase” in personal income taxes imposed by the state government. The school owners under the umbrella of the Coalition of Associations of Private Schools (CAPS), carrying various placards and banners, converged at the premises of the Ministry of Education to register their grievances.
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2 weeks ago | 
leadership.ng | Patrick Ochoga
Edo State government has said all illegally acquired farmlands by some companies in the state would be revoked. The deputy governor, Rt. Hon. Dennis Idahosa, who stated this in Benin on Friday when he received members of the Association of Cocoa Farmers, said that some of the farmlands were acquired by proxy. In a statement by his chief press secretary, Mr Friday Aghedo, the deputy governor assured that due process would be followed at retrieving such lands back to the owners.
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2 weeks ago | 
leadership.ng | Patrick Ochoga
Private school owners in Edo State on Friday staged a peaceful protest in Benin City over tax increments by the state government. Describing the increment as alarming, the school owners, under the umbrella of the Coalition of Associations of Private Schools (CAPS) who carried placards and banners, converged at the premises of the Ministry of Education to register their grievances.
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2 weeks ago | 
nationaleconomy.com | Patrick Ochoga
Edo State deputy governor, Rt. Hon. Dennis Idahosa has vowed that all illegally acquired farmlands by some companies in the state would be revoked. Idahosa, who stated in Benin on Friday when he received members of the Association of Cocoa Farmers, noted that some farmlands were acquired through proxies. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Friday Aghedo, the deputy governor assured that due process would be followed at retrieving such lands back to the owners.
