ASSISTANT Inspector General of Police, Zone 5, Mr Abubakar Mohammed, has said that the force was ready to partner community leaders in Edo State to reduce the spate of crime in the state.

GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has disclosed plans by the state government to collaborate with the Nigerian Institute of Welding, NIW, to establish a welding and fabrication village in the state with a view to imparting welding skills on some of the over 40,000 unemployed youths already on the data base of the state government.

The Sergius Oseasochie Ogun Foundation (SOOF), weekend rewarded final year secondary school students with free NECO/SSCE enrolment fees worth N9million, as well as scholarship to undergraduates from Esan South- East and Esan North- East Federal constituency in Edo State.

The Sergius Oseasochie Ogun Foundation(SOOF), weekend rewarded final year secondary school students with free NECO/SSCE enrolment fees, as well as scholarship to undergraduates from Esan South East and Esan North East Federal constituency in Edo State.

Market Development Programme in the Niger Delta, MADE, is to hold a one-day agricultural forum for women in Edo State as part of activities lined up to mark this year’s International Women’s Day.

THE Edo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has commenced a state wide monitoring of schools across the three senatorial districts of the state.

THE National leadership of Road Transport Employers’ Association of Nigeria, RTEAN, has slammed an indefinite suspension on the Edo State chairman of the association, Mr Osakpamwan Eriyo, for alleged anti-union activities.

THE organised labour in Edo State, has threatened to down tools if Governor Godwin Obaseki fails to meet its demands within seven days, saying that labour was rejecting the alleged implementation of the Contributory Pension Scheme as it was illegal.

SITTING at the Governorship Election Tribunal in Benin, Edo State, yesterday, suffered a setback over the status of a witness subpoenaed by the tribunal as counsel to the petitioners and the respondents engaged in a heated argument on whether he should be allowed to testify or not.

IT was drama yesterday at the Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Benin City, where witnesses who testified on behalf of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its governorship candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, confessed that they signed false signatures and gave fake addresses in the depositions they made before the court for security reasons.

The Edo House of Assembly on Tuesday called on the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) to urgently rehabilitate the failed portion on the Ikpoba River bridge and the gully on the upper axis of the road.

GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and the immediate past governor of the state, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, led other leaders of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state to kick off campaigns for the Etsako federal constituency bye-election, scheduled for January 28, 2017.

AN aspirant of All Progressives Congress, APC, in last Saturday’s primaries of the party for the January 28, 2017, scheduled bye-election for the House of Representatives seat for Etsako Federal constituency of Edo State, Mr. Blessing Agbomhere, has alleged that the rules of the primaries were manipulated mid-way to favour Mr Johnson Oghuma.

The Court of Appeal, sitting in Benin has upheld the judgment of the Edo State Election Petition Tribunal which earlier dismissed the petition of Young Democratic Party, YDP, and its governorship candidate, Nurudeen Inwanfero, against the declaration of Mr. Godwin Obaseki, of All Progressives Congress, APC, as winner of the September 28, 2016 governorship election in the state.

Mr Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in the Edo Sept. 28, 2016 governorship election, on Wednesday opened his case before the Justice Ahmed Badamasi-led three-member tribunal sitting in Benin.