•Godwin Obaseki The Edo State House of Assembly Ad-hoc Committee investigating the Museum of West African Art and Radisson Hotel projects has threatened to issue arrest warrants against former Governor Godwin Obaseki and other officials for refusing to appear before it. The committee, constituted following a request by Governor Monday Okpebhol...
•2baba and Natasha The Edo State House of Assembly has summoned the member representing Egor Constituency, Natasha Irobosa, to appear before the House’s standing committee on Ethics and Privileges within a week. This is to enable Irobosa, the wife of singer Innocent Idibia, better known as 2Baba, to defend herself in respect of a case [&hellip...
The Edo State House of Assembly today terminated the appointments of all political appointees attached to its members with immediate effect. Speaker Blessing Agbebaku announced their dismissal during a plenary session in Benin, reports NAN. Agbebaku stated that the decision was unanimously agreed upon by all 24 members of the House, adding tha...
•Edo State House of Assembly Edo State House of Assembly today passed the State Kidnapping Prohibition Law 2025 and approved death sentence for offenders. The majority leader, Charity Aiguobarueghian, had earlier moved the motion for the house to resolve into the committee of the whole to consider the bill clause-by-clause, reports NAN. The mo...
The Edo State House of Assembly’s suspension of all elected chairmen and vice-chairmen across the 18 local government councils has sparked widespread outrage, with critics describing the move as a blatant violation of the Nigerian Constitution and the recent Supreme Court ruling on local government autonomy. The House acted on a petition submi...
Edo State governor, Monday Okpebholo, yesterday presented the estimated budget for the 2025 fiscal year at the State House of Assembly. A one-minute, 17-second video has gone viral across various social media platforms showing how Okpebholo stuttered while he was unveiling the Appropriation Bill as he tried to pronounce the N605 billion mark, ...
•Okpebholo The 24-member Edo State House of Assembly has approved Governor Monday Okpebholo’s request to appoint 20 special advisers, to enhance effective administration. The approval followed a letter submitted by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Musa Ikhilor, seeking the house’s consent for the appointments, reports The Nation. T...
•Deputy Governor Philip Shaibu The Edo State House of Assembly has directed the state Chief Judge, Justice Daniel Okungbowa to set up a seven man panel to investigate the allegations levelled against the state deputy governor Philip Shaibu. The state assembly is accusing the deputy governor of misconduct and divulging governments information t...
•Philip Shaibu The impeachment saga of the Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, continues as the state House of Assembly says it will resort to substituted service to serve the impeachment notice. The Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Blessing Agbebaku, announced this during plenary today, reports Channels TV. According to hi...
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