•Policemen The Edo State Police Command has recovered N300,000 extorted from a furniture maker by the officers attached to the Oba Market Area Command, Benin City. This was contained in a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer of the command, Moses Yamu, today. Yamu said that officers involved have been detained and would face [&hell...
Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State yesterday defied a heavy downpour to participate in the party’s ward congresses, electing new executives and delegates across all 192 wards. At Oredo Wards I, II, and III in Benin City, where journalists monitored proceedings, the exercise was marked by enthusiasm, orderliness, and a l...
Eighteen-year-old Faith Joseph, on Thursday, narrated how she refused to engage in prostitution in Mali after traffickers tricked her into believing that she was going to work in a supermarket in Lagos. Faith said she was working as a maid in Afuze, Owan East Local Government Area of Edo State, when she was offered a […]
•Prince Kassim Afegbua The Edo State House of Assembly has confirmed eight nominees for appointment as commissioners. Those confirmed are Prince Kassim Afegbua, Nosa Adams, Yakubu Oshiorenua, Felix Akhabue, Prof. Omorodion Ignatius, Ohimai Ehijimetor, Eugenia Abdallah and Godwin Afekokhe Eshieshi. The confirmation followed a request from Gover...
•Hoodlums and Governor Okpebholo Violence erupted during today’s by elections in Edo State as reports emerged of thugs and uniformed members of Edo State’s vigilante network storming polling units in several local government areas, disrupting voting and intimidating voters. In reaction, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has calle...
An agent of the Peoples Democratic Party was beaten and manhandled at Ozolua Model Primary School, Iguobazuwa East Ward, headquarters of Ovia South West local government area. The name of the agent was yet to be ascertained, reports The Nation. The voters said the agent refused to release their Permanent Voter Cards. It was the […]
•Voters Fears of large scale manipulation have cast a shadow over tomorrow’s by elections in Edo and Kaduna States, as opposition parties and election monitors allege prewritten results in Government House, deployment of “notorious” INEC officials, plans to use the police to lock out agents from collation centres, and the recruitment of thousa...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has said 14 political parties have registered for the forthcoming Edo State bye-elections to fill the vacant seats in Edo Central Senatorial District and Ovia Federal Constituency, just as it declared that only nine participated in the primaries. Recall that both seats were declared vacant ...
•Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State The Edo State Government said it has banned the activities of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) over the illegal collection of revenue in the state. It said this followed the alarming resurgence of illegal revenue collecti...
•Rita Idehen A physically-challenged female drug trafficker, Rita Idehen, and six others are to spend 93 years in prison after they were convicted by the Federal High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State, and jailed for various drug-related crimes in July. Six of the rulings were delivered by Hon. Justice Prof. Chuka Obiozor, while […...
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