Archives for November 5th, 2015

Contract Workers Shutdown WRPC over 12 Months Salary Arrears

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...As NNPC Promise to Pay Salaries Soon By Our Correspondent Activities at the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC) operated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) was yesterday shut down by thousands of protesting contractors over twelve months salary areas owed the contractors. The protesting workers yesterday at WRPC, Warri, Delta State. The protesters who laid siege ...

OUR TAKE ON THE DEVALUATION OR NOT OF THE NAIRA

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By Zik Gbemre The Naira, as Nigeria’s currency, has indeed suffered many blows and economic forces for several decades now that have been persistently made its worth drastically reduce when compared to other foreign currencies. This was the same Naira that was robbing shoulders and even far stronger than the US dollar or Pound Starlings some ...

Oshiomhole: Probe  Igbinedion over $31m, others

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By: Eben Enasco kingsley (Benin City) Edo State Government has begun moves to recover the sum of $31 million fraudulently taken from the Government coffers during the administration of Mr Lucky Igbinedion as Governor. Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State This was part of the decision reached at the end of the State Executive Council meeting held ...

CSO KICKS AGAINST MEDIA WORKERS, ACTIVIST HARASSMENT ON INFORMATION DISSEMINATION

By EBEN ENASCO KINGSLEY (BENIN CITY) The need to reject in it entirety the harassment of media workers and Human Rights Activists in their job of information dissemination was yesterday proclaimed by Edo Forum Against Impunity, EDOFAI, a Civil Society Organisation, based in Benin City on its special occasion to mark World International Day to end ...

Wike and PDP’s response of bare-faced lies

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By Our Correspondent At the risk of conferring unmerited importance to the verbose trash the Peoples Democratic Party Chairman, Felix Obuah and the outgoing governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, through their media aides, put in the public domain Monday as a response to the well-documented statement of facts made by the APC Governorship Candidate ...

EDO STATE POLICE COMMAND APPOINTS NEW PPRO

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EBEN ENASCO KINGSLEY (BENIN CITY) The Commissioner of Police, Edo State Command, Cp Chris O. Ezike has appointed Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP, Osifo Abiodun Stanley as the new police public relation officer with immediate effect. DSP Osifo Abiodun The appointment of DSP Osifo took effect following the redeployment of DSP Stephen Onwochei the former PPRO, to ...

POPE FRANCIS SUES FOR RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE AMONG NATIONS

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BY: EBEN ENASCO KINGSLEY BENIN CITY His Holiness, Pope Francis has called for religious dialogue, understanding and communication among nations to promote peace and tranquility in our society. From Left: His Holiness Pope Francesco and chief Nosakhare Isekhure  He made the remarks when he received the representative and Peace Ambassador to FIBS, FACIA, The Isekhure of Benin ...

Sack  Inko-Tariah to prove that you are protective of the judiciary – APC Tells Wike

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By Nawaorgu Faustinus The Rivers State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has called on Governor Nyesom Wike to prove that he is honestly and genuinely against the verbal assault on the Nigerian judiciary by his Spokesman, Mr. Opunabo Christian Inko-Tariah who described the judiciary as conducting judicial terrorism and gang-up over their rulings that separately ...

Wike’s allegation of Peterside kick-starting campaign, a vituperation of a drowning man  

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By Nwaorgu Faustinus Dr. Dakuku Peterside, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers State in the April election has described the allegation by Chief Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers State of launching his campaign ahead of the re-run election as wicked, malicious and the vituperation of a drowning man. Governor Nyesom Wike of ...