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Pennsylvania to lift COVID mitigation orders, except masking, on Memorial Day WPVI Replay Video UP NEXT Pennsylvania will lift all COVID-19 restrictions - except an order to wear a mask while in public - on Memorial Day, the Wolf administration announced Tuesday. Capacity restrictions on bars, restaurants and indoor and outdoor gatherings will go away on May 31, more than a year into the pandemic. The state made the announcement with little fanfare, via news release. "We contin...

One of the kidnappers gunned down Two notorious kidnappers Monday Mimiko and Abu Billi have been gunned down in Kogi State during intensive gun-battle with security forces and vigilantes. Mimiko alias Aneni the law and Billi alias Don German died during crossfire with security personnel while two others escaped with gunshot wounds. The kidnappers were said to have been operating and terrorising communities in Dekina Local Government Area of the State for long. In the process, three kidnapped...

Benjamin Nworie in Abakaliki The Kogi State Police Command has confirmed the killing of the state Commissioner for Pension Board, Hon. Adebayo Solomon and the abduction of the Chairman of Yagba East Local Government, Mr. Pius Kolawole and some others by gunmen. Unknown gunmen also on Saturday night attacked the Abaomege Police Station in Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, killing of one Police officer on duty while another received a gunshot injury. The injured policeman was receivin...

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi has commended the vigilance group and security agents in Dekina Local Government Area of the state for the arrest of notorious kidnappers. Bello gave the commendation in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Onogwu Mohammed, on Sunday after a successful operation where three kidnapped victims were also rescued. The governor said that the kidnappers had been operating and terrorising communities in the environs. According to hi...

7:00 (Harrisburg) — Voters in the May 18 primary will get to weigh in on two ideas to change how different branches of state government could exercise their powers during an emergency. Both of them would amend Pennsylvania’s constitution. One would limit a governor’s disaster proclamations to three weeks at a time, while another would make it easier for state lawmakers to vote them down. Both are more broadly seen as one of the first official referendums on the Wolf administration’s han...

Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi has commended the vigilance group and security agents in Dekina Local Government Area of the state for the killing of notorious kidnappers.

Share Gang of notorious kidnappers operating in Dekina local government area of Kogi State, on Sunday, met their waterloo when the Joint Taskforce of Neighborhood watch, vigilantes, hunters and other security agents repelled the kidnappers leading to the death of the gang members and the release of three captives. The kidnappers by names; Monday Mimiko alias Aneni the law and Abu Billi alias Don German died during the crossfire with the security personnel while two others escaped with gunshot w...

Fight for me, Buhari begs The Punch Published 2 May 2021 Last week, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) found himself face to face with United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken. Buhari may have forgotten, but he first encountered Blinken, at that time the US Deputy Secretary of State, weeks after he took office in 2015. Ironically, the issues that the two men “discussed” last week are the very same that they covered in 2015 when Buhari was preparin...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 2 May 2021 Last week, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) found himself face to face with United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken. Buhari may have forgotten, but he first encountered Blinken, at that time the US Deputy Secretary of State, weeks after he took office in 2015.  Ironically, the issues that the two men “discussed” last week are the very same that they covered in 2015 when Buhari was preparing for his first state ...

1 day ago That fight ultimately yielded the two emergency powers ballot questions voters will make their decisions on in May. The question both of them are asking boils down to this: who gets to say how the state reacts to an emergency? “I see it as kind of the next move that frustrated legislatures would make in this kind of chess game that they are playing with the governor,” said Dr. Clifford Bob, a political scientist and author at Duquesne University. Bob said he’s been studying the ...