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FEAR OF RETRENCHMENT GRIPS AAU STAFF AS VERIFICATION EXERCISE CONTINUES   By: Oriaifoh Godwins   The staff of Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma, Edo state are currently apprehensive with respect to the ongoing staff verification exercise that is being conducted by the Special Intervention Team, appointed by Edo state governor to manage the affairs of the University. The exercise, which inter alia, is aimed at determining the staff strength of the University with the aim of fishing out ghost workers, if there are any, is currently making some of the staff of the university to feel jittery especially going by the fact that same exercise was conducted twice in the past. Speaking with a couple of staff of the University who all prefer to speak anonymously on the issue, they wonder why they are asked to produce their primary school certificate and Bank Verification Number, BVN, which according to them are irrelevant as they suspect the government may just be looking for flimsy excuses to re

A secured environment, steady power supply, panaceas for sustainable development By: Oriaifoh Godwins   Honourable Peter Eboh, an All Progressives Congress, APC, Chieftain in Edo state, has revealed that, for any meaningful development to be achieved and sustained in Edo state, the security of lives and properties as well as a steady supply of power are germaine. Hon. Eboh made this clear recently in a chat with a team of Journalists in Benin, Edo state. He said the lingering security challenges in Edo state, as well as the epileptic power supply has been a cog in the wheels of development in the state in particular and in the country in general. According to him, the fixing of these two areas, will automatically set the stage for the effectiveness of other sectors of the economy. Hon. Eboh, who harped on the extensive use of the vigilante and Neighborhood Watch security networks in addition to the already existing/conventional ones, said the Vigilante group and the Neighborhood Wa