•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 […...
•Monday Okpebholo and Peter Obi The Governor of Edo State, Monday Okpebholo, yesterday sent a powerful message to Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party Presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, warning him not to step into Edo State without getting a clearance from him. A chieftain of the Labour Party and the National Secretary of […]
•Diphtheria The Edo State Government today said it has placed hospitals across the state on “high alert” over the recent outbreak of diphtheria, a bacterial infection that affects the upper respiratory tract. The government, in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Fred Itua, said that Governor Monday Okpebholo had activate...
•Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State More than 74 houses have been destroyed and several lives lost in a protracted communal crisis affecting Ijaw communities in Ovia South-West Local Government Area of Edo State. The conflict, which began in Okomu, has since spread to neighbouring communities including Agbede, Oweike, and Okorodudu, despit...
•Diphtheria Two persons have reportedly died of diphtheria, popularly called whooping cough, at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH, Ugbowo, Edo State, amidst growing concerns over a nationwide shortage of vaccines. The death of the two out of five reported cases is attributed to alleged immunization gaps, surveillance lapses and l...
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