Nigeria has overtaken Egypt as the largest rice producer in Africa, Director-General,Africa Rice Center, Benin Republic, Dr Harold Roy-Macauley has said . Roy-Macauley, told The Nation that Nigeria is now the largest rice producer at 4 million tonnes a year. Egypt was producing 4.3 tonnes annually but production has reduction by almost 40 percent this […] …
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No officer in jail in Benin Republic – Police
The Nigerian Police has said that non of its men are in jail in the People’s Republic of Benin.
Force Public Relations Officers Force Headquarters Ag. DCP Jimoh Moshood reacting to a publication by a newspaper said that the story in its entirety is incorrect, mischievous, and unfounded.
He further said that in the record of the Force, there is no Nigerian Police Officer in jail in Benin Republic as claimed by the writer.
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Nigeria’s Flying Eagles to face Ghana, Benin in WAFU tournament
Former football chief arrested for theft
Former Benin football federation president Anjorin Moucharafou has been arrested on suspicion of theft, judicial sources said on Tuesday. Musharraf was “arrested by members of the police” for a case under investigation and relating to a theft of sports equipment, a judicial source told AFP. It has been a week of turmoil for the sport […] …
WAFU U-17 qualifiers: Garba assures of Eaglets’ victory over Cote d’ Voire
Customs intercepts N1.5bn petrol set for Benin Republic through Ogun creek
NSCDC arrests 19 Benin nationals for alleged petroleum theft
Oyo, Benin Republic partner on trade
The Oyo State Government and the Republic of Benin have announced their readiness to partner towards strengthening bilateral trade, agriculture and forestalling trans-border crime. Chief of Staff, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Republic of Benin, William Comlan, broke the news during a courtesy visit to Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi in his office inRead More
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Electricity: FG gets $10m pay from international consumers
PHOTOS: Ritual burial of Abomey king begins in Benin
“Darkness has fallen on the kingdom,” the prime minister of the Abomey kingdom in southern Benin told the 300,000 people gathered to mark the death of traditional monarch Dah Dedjalagni Agoli-Agbo. The celebration at the weekend of the ancestral king’s life is the beginning of at least six months of funeral rites, following his death […] …