Against the backdrop of political violence in Edo State in recent time, Louis Odion, Edo Commissioner for Information fielded questions from a group of journalists. Excepts:

Lately, Edo politics seems to have assumed a violent dimension.

He speaks to Saturday Vanguard on 13 years of civil, controversies trailing delayed implementation of the fuel subsidy probe report, capital market probe and constitution amendment and 2015 presidential polls among others.

Barely 24 hours that President Goodluck Jonathan set up an agricultural transformation implementation council charged with the responsibility of creating additional 20 million metric tons of food into the nation's domestic food supply by the year 2015, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State Tuesday, led the federal delegation to the official kick off of rice processing factory.

He asked Nigerians to reassess their journey from independence till date with a view to ascertaining the areas where the nation had gone wrong in order to make amends.

NEW YORK, May 19, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The following statement was issued on 17 May by the Spokesperson for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon:

In continuation of United Nations efforts to ensure the full restoration of constitutional rule in both Mali and Guinea-Bissau, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa, Said Djinnit, will participate in the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) Mediation and Security Council meeting on Mali and Guinea-Bissau, to be held in Abidjan on 19 May.

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SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, (THEWILL) - The US State Department is under pressure from the Justice Department to designate Nigeria’s

WASHINGTON, May 19, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Remarks

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Secretary of State

Washington, DC

May 18, 2012

On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I am delighted to send best wishes to the people of Cameroon as you celebrate your 40th anniversary of the Republic this May 20.

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SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, (THEWILL) - Claims that some pensioners on the pay roll of the Military Pensions Board have not been paid despite that they have been captured in the biometric exercise have been denied.

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Stock index futures edged up on Friday but major indexes were setting up to close their worst week of the year, while Facebook's debut could help lift battered investor sentiment.

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Investors are bracing for Facebook's Wall Street debut on Friday after the world's No.1

Spanish bank bad loans rose in March to their highest in 18 years, figures from the Bank of Spain showed on Friday, underscoring the problems facing the government as it attempts to clean up the sector and get its economy back on track.

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SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, (THEWILL) - Claims that some pensioners on the pay roll of the Military Pensions Board have not been paid despite that they have been captured in the biometric exercise have been denied.

The

Stock index futures edged up on Friday but major indexes were setting up to close their worst week of the year, while Facebook's debut could help lift battered investor sentiment.

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