The sleeping town of Urhonigbe in the Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State has been thrown into confusion following serial and frequent attacks on hapless natives and kidnap of prominent persons for ransom in the community by some unknown gunmen. The gunmen who have literarily taken over the agrarian community has forced many residents […]
Edo Government has ordered indefinite closure of Idogbo Secondary School in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of the state, following attack on teachers and a police officer by students. Commissioner for Education, Mrs Joan Osa-Oviawe, gave the order on Thursday in Benin, while reacting to the development in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria […]
The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has said he has no plans to join another political party, reassuring that his party affiliation will not alter development plans for the state. Obaseki, who spoke during a Banquet in Benin City, as part of activities for this year’s Alaghodaro Summit, said his government is committed to ensuring […]
By Paebi Uduak Inikorogha community has been in the news with several accusations and counter-accusations. On Saturday 28th August 2021, there was a move to inaugurate new community executive members and install someone as the Amakosowei of Inikorogha community. While few members of the community claimed that the move was successful, most people in the […]
Two sons of the immediate Olu of Warri, Ogiame Ikenwoli Emiko, Princes Onyowoli and Omatsuli, have been declared wanted by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) Zone 5 in Benin, Edo State, over the stolen 400-year-old crown of Warri Kingdom. The princes were declared wanted ahead of Prince Tsola Emiko, son of Olu Atuwatse, being crowned […]
Chief Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the 2020 Governorship Election in Edo on Monday congratulated Gov. Godwin Obaseki, on his victory at the Supreme Court. Ize-Iyamu in a letter to the governor said that the Friday’s judgment of the apex court has put an end to the series of litigations on the […]
ANDREW OROLUA, ABUJA. The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal filed by All Progressives Congress (APC) against Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State. The party had challenged the concurrent decisions of the Court of Appeal and Federal High Court that dismissed their case and allegation that Governor Obasaki forged University of Ibadan degree certificate with […]
By Gabriel Omonhinmin On Saturday, May, 22, 2021, the entire South-Ibie town, in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State went agog as His Royal Highness, Alhaji Aliu Kelvin Danesi, Oba Idanesi II and the Aidonoje of South-Ibie marked his twenty second anniversary on the throne. Twenty-two years ago. a quiet, unassuming, urban and […]
By Gabriel Omonhinmin The Benin Traditional Council in Edo State has been working frantically to stop, what a Palace Watch source described as ‘the illegal attempt or incursion of the Legacy or Legal Restoration Trust” towards appropriating the rights and ownership of the ancient kingdom’s artifacts. The prized heritage items were stolen from the Benin […]
By Titus Akhigbe, Benin The Edo State government on Thursday said over N3billion, under the World Bank intervention programme, has been budgeted to support Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises that were affected by COVID-19 pandemic. Briefing journalists in Benin City, Joel Edionwe, Permanent Secretary, Edo State ministry of wealth creation, cooperatives and employment, said the […]
Titus Akhigbe, Benin As investigations into the missing crown of the Olu of Warri Kingdom and other items continue, there are indications that the Zone 5 Police Command with headquarters in Benin City, Edo State has recovered the keys where the missing items are kept. The Iyatsere of Warri Kingdom, Chief Johnson Atserunleghe, and the […]
By Gabriel Omonhinmin Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has approved the removal of the Clan Head of South East Uneme in Estako East Local Government Area. A three-paragraph press statement entitled “Governor Obaseki dissolves Uzanu clan, dethrones clan head,” signed by the Secretary to the Edo State Government, Mr. Osarodion Ogie (Esq), stated in part: […]
By Titus Akhigbe, Benin The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State on Friday urged policy makers to take seriously Governor Godwin Obaseki’s call on the Federal Government to end the country’s current monetary rascality as well as prevent the prevailing economic challenge from degenerating further. Obaseki had last week expressed reservations over the nation’s […]
The current security challenges in Nigeria have prompted Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki to canvass once more for the decentralization of the nation’s security architecture as a means of checking the spate of insecurity in the country.Governor Obaseki made this call against the backdrop of a funeral service held in Ogun State. The event was […]
The Edo State Government has banned all illegal cattle markets in the state. All such markets are to be fully registered in the local council areas they are located. Any premises that harbours any unlawful cattle market will be confiscated by the State Government. The ban on night grazing is to be reinforced with immediate […]
…Say ‘Fulani Herdsmen must leave our communities’ Aherhoke Okioma, Yenagoa, Titus Akhigbe, Benin Women from the Epie/Atissa communities in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State and Uromi in Esan North-East Local Government Area of Edo State, both from the South South region of the country, on Wednesday staged peaceful protests against the menace of […]
Bright Okosodo, said he has concluded plans to provide free medical services for residents of Oredo local government in Edo State. Okosodo popularly known as ‘Richie’, a Ghana based entrepreneur who is the Founder and CEO of BAHAMAS COLLECTION, told our reporter that the aim of this gesture is to provide free medical services to […]
The Police Command in Edo said it had arrested a 63-year-old grandfather for defiling a two-year-old girl. The Spokesman for the Command, Mr Chidi Nwabuzor, said that the incident happened in Urhonigbe community in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of the state. Nwabuzor said that the police had completed its investigation into the matter and the […]
Nosa Akenzua, Asaba As part of efforts to assist victims of the gas explosion which occurred on Friday in Agbor, the Delta State government has deposited the sum of three million naira for the continuation of their treatment at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Edo State. The Delta State Commissioner for Health, […]
By Ben Alaiya …States to register athletes with LOC Going by indications from the Sports Ministry and the Edo State Government, the National Sports Festival (NSF), earlier scheduled for last year should now hold next month in Benin City. All the 36 states of the federation and the Federal capital, Abuja are expected to be […]