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Edo speaker inaugurates 2 members-elect

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 24 June 2019

Titus Akhigbe, Benin Two Edo state House of Assembly members-elect were on Monday inaugurated by Speaker Frank Okiye, further depleting the ranks of the 15-man pro-Oshiomhole legislators to 13. The two newly sworn-in members are Sunday Ojiezele, representing Esan South East and Emmanuel Okoduwa

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PFN applauds judgement of Kaduna court over licensing preachers

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 23 June 2019

Titus Akhigbe, Benin The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has hailed the judgment of the Kaduna state High Court, presided over by Justice Hajaratu Gwadah which declared that the state government has no right to screen and issue licenses to religious preachers in the state as it purports to do. A statement issued in Benin […]

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APC chieftain tasks Obaseki, Oshiomhole to speak out about crisis

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 21 June 2019

Titus Akhigbe, Benin A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Charles Idahosa has denounced the silence of Governor Godwin Obaseki and the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, alleging that their relationship has broken down. Idahosa, the former political adviser to Oshiomhole, asked the ex-governor to come out clean on the crisis rocking the Edo […]

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Thugs assault Oshiomhole’s younger brother in Edo

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 19 June 2019

Titus Akhigbe, Benin The crisis rocking the Edo state House of Assembly over the midnight inauguration of the assembly, may have worsened as yet to be identified thugs allegedly attacked Seidu Oshiomhole, the younger brother to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole in Benin. The thugs were said to have […]

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Obaseki congratulates Okiye, Idiaye as speaker, deputy speaker

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 19 June 2019

By Titus Akhigbe, Benin Edo state Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has congratulated the newly elected Speaker, Frank Okiye and his deputy, Yekini Idiaye, on their emergence as leaders of the 7th Edo state House of Assembly. In a statement, the governor said with the inauguration of the assembly, all is set for the members to commence […]

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Edo legislators-elect demand inauguration of assembly

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 18 June 2019

By Titus Akhigbe, Benin Nineteen out of the 24 members-elect of the Edo state House of Assembly on Monday accused the state Governor, Godwin Obaseki of attempting to truncate democracy. The yet-to-be inaugurated lawmakers made the allegation in a statement while addressing journalists at the NUJ secretariat in Benin. A former Commissioner for Education, Washinton […]

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10 Farmers Kidnapped In Iyemero Community As Efforts To Locate Victims Ends In Futility

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 20 April 2019 0

No fewer than 10 farmers in Iyemero community have reportedly been kidnapped by suspected herdsmen in camouflage uniform from their farmlands. On April 17th 2019, gun wielding herdsmen in camouflage uniform attacked farmers in their farmlands where crops worth millions of naira were destroyed by cattle brazenly grazing on them, it was confirmed. At least […]

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Religious Sect, Hunts Henry, Dead or Alive, For Alleged” Gay Act

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 23 March 2019 0

By our North-East correspondent There was panic in Garki area, Abuja, Northern part of Nigeria, as one Henry Aliga, was reportedly brutalized by angry suspected religious sect group members, living him with serious injuries on his head, on allegation of Gay relationship. President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s administration in 2014,duly signed into law, zero tolerance,

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“I’m Still Running for My Life” — Driver of Slain Oyo Lawmaker Recounts Horror, Fears Assassins May Return

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 22 March 2019 0

Wale Akintola, Ibadan Olumide Adebayo, personal driver to the late Honourable Temitope Olatoye, popularly known as “Sugar,” has recounted how he narrowly escaped death during the violent ambush that led to the gruesome killing of the lawmaker on March 9, 2019, in Ibadan, Oyo State. Olatoye, who represented the Lagelu/Akinyele Federal Constituency in the House

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Police Declare 11 Gay Suspects Wanted For Jumping Bail, As Court Orders Re-arrest of Fleeing Suspects.

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 5 March 2019 0

The Lagos State Command of the Nigerian Police has declared 11 gay suspects wanted after refusing to appear in court during the resumed hearing of a case of violation of the Same-sex Marriage Prohibition Act of 2014 involving 42 young men arrested in a popular hotel in Ikorodu axis of the state on July 29th […]

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Elders, Women Group Vow To Cast Evil Spell On Family As Mother Rejects Circumcision of Daughter

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 16 January 2019 0

The elders of Ewohimi community in Esan South-east local government area of Edo state have vowed to invoke and cast evil spell on the family of Lucky Sonia and her daughter over her outright refusal to allow elders perform the mandatory family circumcision on her little daughter Lucky Gift several years after her birth in […]

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Grief as Gunmen Kill Toddler in FCT

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 13 February 2018 0

Residents of Gwarimpa area of the Federal Capital Territory were last Saturday thrown into grief following the tragic killing of a toddler, Rhema Akinwunmi, who was shot dead by gunmen suspected to be members of the Izala Islamic group. The tragedy occurred at a residence located at 20, John Horse Street in Gwarimpa in the […]

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Man wanted by police, faces threats from terrorists, goes into hiding

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 18 January 2018 0

The police in Kano have declared one Dauda Zakari wanted over his alleged link with some dare devil terrorists otherwise known as Boko Haram operating in the area. Dauda Zakari, 27 and former staff of Mbanefo Hotel, located in Sabon Gari Kano, Kano State is wanted to face criminal prosecution alongside suspected Boko Haram terrorists […]

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Pan through Time: Yoruba Folkloric Films

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 17 November 2017 0

By Folarin Leonard This week, we will go back in time. To the beginning of Yoruba films. Nollywood is doing tremendously well, gaining international recognition and meeting first world standards in movie production. You can’t talk of Yoruba folklore, wrongly called “folkloric”, without talking about the father of contemporary Yoruba theatre”. Oloye Hubert Adedeji

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Tensions in Kaduna as Islamic Police Launch Manhunt for Escaped Human Rights Advocate

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 18 October 2017 0

Tensions are mounting in Kaduna, northern Nigeria as the Hisbah Islamic police commenced a serious manhunt for a human rights advocate, Temitope Aruwajoye, who reportedly escaped from a Sharia detention facility in the Basawa area of Zaria, Kaduna State, few days ago. Temitope Aruwajoye, originally from Lagos State was arrested in her residence in Basawa […]

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CERVICAL CANCER: Just one early screening can avert lifetime suffering

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 14 October 2017 0

By Oyindamola Idris Cervical cancer is one of the commonest genital diseases in women that has claimed the lives of many regardless of their title or position. Although this condition is both preventable and curable (depending on early detection), record of survivors is still low. Also a predominant disease in most developing countries, cancer of […]

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Beauty enhancers: The rave of the moment

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 2 September 2017 0

For many young women, having a big butt (Ikebe) is synonymous with being overweight and being unattractive. But things have changed; curves are being embraced and celebrated. Surely, women with natural big butts, hips and breasts are happier as they can now fit into mass media’s definition of beauty. The flair for fake butts, hips, […]

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The plight of traders in Lagos night markets

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 19 August 2017 0

By Oyindamola Idris Lagos, the fast rising City of Excellence may be towering above other states in the federation, but there are certain landmarks, traits and lifestyles of the people that make up Cosmopolitan Lagos that refuse to be relegated into the trash bin of history. One of them is the popular Night Markets across […]

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Woman mobbed, husband on the run for refusing to take role in local shrine 

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 28 April 2017 0

Confusion and anger reign in “Obenevberibo” community in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State as the wife to a man chosen to succeed his father, the chief priest of Ogiobe shrine has declined to take up the responsibility, thus throwing the entire community into a state of confusion.   The man, Timpson Usinoma Edobor […]

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Ivue-Uromi Customary Court dissolves marriage over same-sex relationship, orders ₦150,000 monthly child support

DailyTimesNGR DailyTimesNGR 15 April 2017 0

The Ivue-Uromi District Customary Court in Edo State on April 12, 2017 formally dissolved the marriage between Mrs Gift Okotor and Mr David Okotor, thereby ending a union that began in July 2015 under Esan native law and custom in Idumu-Iyase, Uromi. Ruling on suit number IDCC/20/2017 the court, presided over by Barr. P. O. […]