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By Emmanuel Aziken In justifying his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governor Ben Ayade last Thursday cited his determination to forge a national consensus around President Muhammadu Buhari for Nigeria to move forward. “Instead of us rising as an orgasmic whole to see how we can support the President to deal with these foreign herders that are colonising our various roads and farms, we rather sit back; we tend to create an impression as if the government is not doing well,” he said in a television interview last Thursday. But for a p...

BENIN CITY – Following their immense contributions to the development and growth of humanity as well as propagating the cultural heritage of the people, the Governors of Edo and Delta States, Benin Monarch, Edo Deputy Governor of Edo state, Mr Godwin Obaseki, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, HRM Oba Eware II, Rt. Hon Philip Shaibu, Chief Dan Orbih and others on Sunday bagged the prestigious 2021 Edo cultural Heritage Heroes Award amid pomp and ceremony. The Award which was Organised by Fecha Project Foundation in Benin City, the Edo State Capital attracted Creme de la creme in the society. While Govern...

Hoodlums in military uniform killed police officer in Imo ― CP On By Chinonso Alozie, Owerri The Imo state police command yesterday confirmed that hoodlums in military uniform killed one of its officers, Sergent Loveday Obilonu, at Ukwu Uratta road in Owerri, Imo state. The state Commissioner of Police, Abutu Yaro, stated this to newsmen in Owerri, through the state Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Bala Elkana. Abutu said that Sergent Loveday was among the officers deployed to protect the citizens of the state against criminal elements. In their preliminary investigation, he added th...

Vanguard News Reps urge NERC to rescind decision on June tariff hike On Kindly Share This Story: The House of Representatives has urged the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to rescind its decision to further increase the electricity tariff in June. The call was sequel to a unanimous adoption of a motion by Rep. Aniekan Umanah (PDP-Akwa Ibom) at plenary on Thursday. Moving the motion, Umanah said that it was important to suspend the planned increase in view of the current harsh economic situation in Nigeria. He said that NERC was established by the Electric Power Sector Act o...

By Dirisu Yakubu, Abuja South-South zonal chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Dan Orbih has described Thursday’s defection of Cross River state governor, Professor Ben Ayade to the All Progressives Congress, APC, as regrettable and unfortunate. Chief Orbih in a telephone conversation with our correspondent said it was a shame that Governor Ayade would leave the PDP for a party that has unleashed hardship on Nigerians in the last couple of years. He called on the National Assembly to enact a law that would make swapping of political parties premised on defined conditions. He...