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Pastor Osagie Ize-iyamu has been declared winner of the Edo State APC governorship primaries with a total of 27,838 votes. Dr. Pius Odubu and Hon Osaro Obaze came behind with a total of 3,776 and 2,724 votes respectively. The results were announced after the APC committee reconvened from a short recess. See breakdown as submitted by presiding officers from LGA areas in the state. Oredo Pastor Osagie Ize-iyamu. 1902 Hon Osaro Obaze 308 Dr Pius Odubu 67 Ovia North East Pastor Osagie Ize-iyamu 1650 Hon Osaro Obaze 70 Dr Pius Odubu 124 Ovia South West Pastor Osagie Ize-iyamu 1668 Hon Osaro Obaze 79 Dr Pius Odubu 107 Ikpoba Okha Pastor Osagie Ize-iyamu 1581 Hon Osaro Obaze 67 Hon Pius Odubu 99 Uhunmwonde LGA Pastor Osagie Ize-iyamu 1394 Dr Pius Odubu 274 Hon Osaro Obaze 183 Orhionmwon Pastor Osagie Ize-iyamu 1750 Hon Osaro Obaze 171 Hon Pius Odubu 418 Egor Pastor Osagie Ize-iyamu 1794 Hon Osaro Obaze 53 Dr Pius Odubu 81 Igueben Pastor Osagie Ize-iyamu 1300 Hon Osaro Obaze 178 Dr Pius Odubu ...

B Oba Market in Benin, Edo State, has been gutted by fire. The fire was said to have started at midnight and was still being put out as at 9:00am on Monday. “At about 1:00hrs this morning, men of Federal Fire Service Zone K, Edo Command, turned out to combat a raging inferno at Oba Market, Ring Road, Benin City, Edo State. In attendance are Nigerian Army, Nigerian Air Force, NPDC, and UNIBEN fire service,” Federal Fire Service Zone K said in a post on Twitter.  The cause of the fire is still not known as at the time of this report. Source: Sahara reporters

The Akwa Ibom State Government on Sunday sealed off the premises of one of Pastor Chris Oyakhilome’s churches in Uyo, capital of the State. The State Government sealed off the Christ Embassy Church, Nung Akpa Ime branch in Uyo for alleged attack on the State Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Compliance Monitoring Team. Dr Emmanuel Ekuwem, Secretary to State Government and Chairman of COVID-19 Management Committee made this known in a statement in Uyo on Sunday. Ekuwem said the Church was sealed off for obstructing, attacking and brutalising members of the monitoring team. He added that the sealing off of the Church was due to acts of lawlessness and to avoid the risk of community transmission of Coronavirus. The secretary to the state government said that the Pastors and members involved in the attack would be made to face the full wrath of the law. “In response to this act of lawlessness by the Church and in order to avoid the risk of community transmission of COVID-19 in Akwa Ibom State...

40-year-old man, Lanre Kazeem, allegedly committed suicide in the early hours of Sunday by hanging himself in his house at Eyin Grammar area of Ibadan.  The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the deceased was living in a rented house, and worked in a private palm kernel company around Soka Ibadan. The incident took many residents of the area by surprise as they expressed their sadness. The Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer,(PPRO), SP Olugbenga Fadeyi, confirmed the incident to NAN on Sunday. Fadeyi said the deceased hanged himself in his house and his corpse had been deposited at Adeoyo state hospital’s mortuary.  “The Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Sanyo division, has visited the area to see what happened. An investigation has commenced on the matter to know what happened,” Fadeyi said.  Some residents of the area, who spoke to NAN, said the deceased hailed from Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, and has no known relatives or friends all through his one-...

Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 22-year-old vulcanizer, Dele Ope, for allegedly stealing a pair of pants belonging to a female customer. Ope had gone to render a home service to the customer on Sunday when he stole the pants . The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. Oyeyemi said the suspect was arrested following a report by the woman at the Warewa Division in the Ifo Local Government Area of the state. The PPRO added that the complainant reported that she had called Ope to help fix her car’s deflated tyre. According to her, after the vulcanizer had fixed the tyre and left, she discovered that her pair of pants spread on a line in the compound was missing. “Since the vulcanizer was the only person, who came into the compound, she went round in search of him, but he was nowhere to be found,” the PPRO stated. Oyeyemi said the Divisional Police Officer, Warewa Division, SP Folake Afeniforo, after rec...

The Ghanaian Government has promised to punished those involved in the demolition of the Nigerian High Commission in Accra. SaharaReporters had reported that some unidentified armed men stormed the building in Accra, the capital city on Friday, demolishing some apartments under construction. The building was being constructed to house staff and visiting diplomats to the High Commission. In a statement, Ghana’s Ministry of fmForeign Affairs and Regional Intervention said the incident was being investigated with the aim of bringing perpetrators to book.  The statement reads, “It has come to the attention of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration that unidentified individuals had allegedly breached the premises of the Nigeria High Commission in Accra and demolished its property under construction around 10:30pm on Friday, 19th June, 2020. “The ministry views with concern this development which is a breach of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (VCDR. 1961)....

The Federal Capital Territory Administration has warned commercial sex workers and nightclubs operating in the city to stop violating the Coronavirus lockdown order put in place by government to curtail the spread of the deadly disease. Chairman of the FCT Ministerial Enforcement Task Force on COVID-19 Restrictions, Ikharo Attah, handed down the warning over the weekend when the team went round Kubwa, Gwarinpa and Wuse areas of Abuja to monitor the level of compliance to the rule. He said “The presence of the ladies of the night is a violation of the curfew because they are not on the exemption list of essential workers. Their presence made us carry out full checks on some nightclubs which are truly closed. At moments like this, we expect them to stop the unholy trade in their own interest because the men who may patronize them may be COVID-19 positive.  "The ban on nightclubs, parks, and bars is yet to be lifted, hence the need for us to sustain routine inspection and ensure comp...