•Edo State governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, receives Kano State deputy governor, Comrade Aminu Abdulsalam Gwarzo, at the Government House in Benin City yesterday The federal government, in collaboration with the Edo State Government, have set up a fact-finding Committee to look into the circumstances surrounding the recent killings of 16 Ka...
•Governors Abba Kabir Yusuf (Kano) and Monday Okpebholo (Edo) A high-powered committee constituted by Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, led by his Deputy, Aminu Abdulsalam Gwarzo, today, departed for Edo State to investigate the recent killings in Uromi Village. The tragic incident, which occurred last month, has heightened tensions in th...
•Police Many residents of Uromi are still skeptical about what would befall them, as life gradually returns to the town, a week after 16 northern travellers, mistaken for kidnappers, were killed by a mob, even as they accused the police of indiscriminate arrest and extortion. This was evident yesterday, which was the market day in […]
•Uromi Communities around Old Ilushi Road, Opere, and Good Will Junction in Uromi, Edo State, have been deserted by residents for fear of reprisals and arrests by security agents, following the lynching of 16 travellers by a mob in the area last Thursday. This came as Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State yesterday in Kano […]
•Governor Okpebholo (C) Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State has paid a condolence visit to the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau I Jibrin, over the killings of travellers in Uromi, Esan North East Local Government Area of Edo State. The governor was at the Maitama residence of the Deputy President of the Senate […]
•Jungle justice The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has blown hot over the killing of northern hunters in Uromi, Edo State, saying that the North has tolerated enough and will no longer condone such acts. NEF made the position known through Professor Abubakar Jika Jiddere, spokesperson of the Forum, reports Sunday Trust. In a statement, yesterday,...

