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Benin Traditional Council secretary, chiefs remanded in prison over alleged demolition of buildings released

Ihesiulo Grace 9 September 2022 0

By Titus Akhigbe The Edo State High Court on Thursday granted bail to Frank Irabor, Secretary, Benin Traditional Council and four other persons. Justice Mary Itsueli granted the bail applications of the persons in the sum of N1,000,000 each with a surety each in like sum. The presiding judge

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Membership of Occultic group set family apart in Edo State

Ihesiulo Grace 17 April 2022 0

The problem of inhumanity to man in Nigeria has reached a worrisome dimension because hardly a day passes without hearing the menace in the society. It is becoming rampant in all the sphere of life in the country. Regrettably, there is inhumanity to man in almost all the places of worship even in Government offices […]

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14 feared dead , others maimed as herdsmen attack Edo community

Ihesiulo Grace 11 April 2022 0

Benin city — No fewer than 14 persons have been gruesomely murdered and others maimed during a deadly attack by suspected herdsmen in Odiguetue community in Edo State . As the number of victims continues to increase, it was said that many more were said to have been displaced while others are declared missing after […]

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Blood on the Ballot: APC Chairmanship Aspirant Ojo Odia Assassinated in Cold Blood in Edo State

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The streets of Ehor ran with fear on September 13, 2021, as political violence claimed another victim in Edo State’s escalating crisis. Mr. Ojo Odia, a vibrant aspirant seeking to contest for the position of Uhunmwode Local Government Chairman under the All Progressive Congress (APC), was brutally assassinated in what sources have described as a […]

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Police rescue 7 kidnap victims in Edo

Ihesiulo Grace 11 May 2021 0

The Police Command in Edo said  it rescued seven kidnap victims and killed three suspected kidnappers during an operation in Ahor community. This is contained in a statement in Benin on Monday by SP Kontongs Bello, the command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO). Bello disclosed that in continuation of the forest and bush combing promised by […]

Politics

Edo Governorship tribunal to deliver judgment in four petitions

Ihesiulo Grace 29 March 2021 0

Following the completion of hearings and adoption of addresses, the Edo State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Benin City is expected to render judgment in the four petitions before it. A case between Agol Ebun Tracy and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Governor Godwin Obaseki is one of […]

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Female Circumcision Allegedly Claims One Life

Ihesiulo Grace 25 February 2021 0

It’s was a sad day for the family of Oaimen of Sobo – Ora Community in Owan West Local Government Area of Edo State. When Eyewitness report has it that a woman was beheaded in a pool of her blood, the precarious situation has throned the family into an emotional turmoils and indescribable pain. A […]

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Edo State deputy governor’s brother kidnapped in Benin

Ihesiulo Grace 11 November 2020 0

By Titus Akhigbe A younger brother to the Deputy Governor of Edo State identified as Frederick Shaibu has been reportedly kidnapped by gunmen while going to drop his kids at school in Benin City, the Edo state capital. The incident reportedly happened on Monday. The Daily Times gathered that as at the time of filing […]

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My victory, unifying factor for South-South — Obaseki

Ihesiulo Grace 24 September 2020 0

Godwin Obaseki of Edo state has described his victory in Edo gubernatorial election as a unifying factor for the Southsouth. READ ALSO: Buhari would be remembered as the father of democracy in Nigeria— Obaseki He spoke on Wednesday in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, at a state dinner in his honour. Obaseki said the victory, which […]

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U.S. expresses satisfaction over peaceful conduct of Edo election

Ihesiulo Grace 23 September 2020 0

The United States (U.S) government has expressed satisfaction with the peaceful conduct of the Edo State governorship elections on Sept. 19, Daily Times Nigeria has learnt. READ ALSO: Oshiomhole should maintain his lane, i’ll stay on mine — Obaseki The U.S. government made this known in a message posted on the Facebook page of the […]

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Columnist: Edo: The scales have fallen

Ihesiulo Grace 21 September 2020 0

By Ray Ekpu I am not a politician even though I have been tempted three times by do-gooders to throw my hat into the gubernatorial ring of my state, Akwa Ibom. I have bluntly refused because I prefer to stay in journalism’s vineyard all my life. My ambition in journalism is to continue to fight […]

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Edo elections: IGP orders restriction of movement

Ihesiulo Grace 18 September 2020 0

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the restriction of vehicular movement in Edo from 11.59pm on Friday to 6pm on Saturday. Adamu in a statement by the force spokesman, DCP Frank Mba, urged Edo people to vote on the day of the election, noting that the police and other security agencies have been […]

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No cause for alarm, Edo election won’t be violent – INEC

Ihesiulo Grace 18 September 2020 0

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has reaffirmed the assurance by security agencies that everything is under control regarding the identified hotspots in Edo ahead of Saturday’s governorship election. READ ALSO: Use Edo polls to restore hope in our electoral process… Mr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner in Charge of Information and Voter Education

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Opinion: Edo polls and future of our democracy

Ihesiulo Grace 18 September 2020 0

By Raymond Oise-Oghaede The eagerly awaited Edo State gubernatorial election is now around the corner with the political parties and their candidates putting finishing touches to their respective strategies and permutations geared towards securing victory at the polls. This is not unexpected because it is only one candidate (with the majority of the votes cast […]

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Edo heads to poll amid violence, COVID-19, vote-buying fears

Ihesiulo Grace 17 September 2020 0

By Felix Oboagwina Edo indigenes will be battling anxieties about violence, votebuying and Coronavirus infection as they troop out tomorrow for the governorship election to choose which one of two foremost politicians to be their state’s helmsman in the next four years. In a broadcast on Wednesday, Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, had […]

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Edo 2020: Sensitive materials arrive CBN in Benin

Ihesiulo Grace 16 September 2020 0

Sensitive materials for the conduct of Saturday’s governorship election in Edo arrived the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), office in Benin on Wednesday. READ ALSO: Edo 2020: Ganduje seeks Arewa community for Ize-Iyamu Mr Timidi Wariowei, the INEC Head of Voter Education and Publicity in Edo, confirmed the arrival of the materials to newsmen. “The […]

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You want to make them suffer, Edo isn’t Lagos — Onuesoke tells Tinubu

Ihesiulo Grace 15 September 2020 0

A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Governorship aspirant in Delta State, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has scolded the National leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for asking Edo people not to vote for the incumbent Governor, Godwin Obaseki during the Saturday Governorship election, Daily Times gathered. The […]

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Edo: APC takes action on PDP’s suit against Osagie Ize-Iyamu

Ihesiulo Grace 9 September 2020 0

The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) suit seeking the disqualification of Osagie Ize-iyamu from the September 19 governorship election in Edo State was not heard on Tuesday. READ ALSO: We lost polls because of your quarrels, Buhari tells APC Hearing was stalled at the Federal High Court in Abuja due to a motion by the All Progressives […]

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Education ministry fire not forclosed’

Ihesiulo Grace 7 September 2020 0

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State at the weekend threatened to set up an inquiry into the incident that led to the fire outbreak that razed the Ministry of Education, Iyaro, Benin Cty, in 2011/2012. Chief Dan Orbih, chairman of the PDP Edo governorship election campaign council handed down the threat during the party’s […]

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Edo Election: PDP, APC flaunts Oba of Benin’s warning as supporters clash again

Ihesiulo Grace 5 September 2020 0

The All Progressive Congress (APC) youth leaders in Ewu, Esan Central Local Government Area of Edo State, alleged to have narrowly escaped death, DAILY TIMES gathered. They claimed to have been attacked by thugs hired by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) while youths were pasting posters of the APC candidate Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu in the […]