…insists ban on motorcycle in Benin metropolis subsists The Edo State Government will on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 begin registration and licensing of motorcycle and tricycle riders across the 18 Local Government Areas (LGA) of the state as part of efforts by the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration to address security challenges in the state. The […]

By Ozioruva Aliu – Benin City An Evbuoriaria magistrate court in charge of juvenile and family matters sitting in Benin City, Edo State on Monday, remanded a 43-year-old lady identified as Miss Esther Ehikhioya a two-count charge for defiling a two years old minor (name withheld). Detained Ehikhioya is a nanny in whose custody the […]

Orders continuation of High Court proceedings The Court of Appeal, sitting in Benin, has refused to stay the order of an Edo State High Court restraining Col. David Imuse (rtd), from parading himself as Chairman of the Edo State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The court held that the proceedings in the High […]

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has assured of timely completion of the state’s National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) permanent orientation camp in Okada, Ovia North East Local Government Area of the state.   The governor gave the assurance when he inspected ongoing construction of the NYSC permanent orientation camp, noting that his administration […]

Edo to parley private schools on roll-out of EdoBEST The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has commended the former President, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) International, Sir Egbert Imomoh and his wife, Lady Patricia, for their contribution to educational development in the state. The governor gave the commendation as he commissioned a new block […]

Community leaders, farmers’ groups and other stakeholders in Edo State are weighing the option of securing legal backing for a well-equipped vigilante group to monitor the activities of herders across the over 2,400 communities in the state as part of solutions to the clashes between farmers and herders in the state. The suggestion was made […]

…APC factional chair, Imuse condemns conditions for Oshiomhole’s visits By Gabriel Enogholase & Ozioruva Alia BENIN CITY — AS the crisis rocking Edo State All Progressives Congress, APC, continues, the Edo State government has said that national chairman of APC, Adams Oshiomhole and Edo Peoples Movement, EPM, sympathetic to him, were planning to sponsor protests […]

Edo State All Progressives Congress, APC, alleged on Monday that Governor Godwin Obaseki was training militia groups in the state.

The outgoing Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo, Chief Dan Orbih, said the support and cooperation of chieftains and members of the party have strengthened the party in the state. At a press briefing on Saturday in Benin, Orbih, whose 12 years tenure would end on March 14, said that this has […]

By Ozioruva Aliu – Benin City The Federal High Court sitting in Benin city and presided over by Hon. Justice M G. Umar has dismissed a certificate forgery suit filed by Nosa Victor Omoregie of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against Hon. Dumez Ugiagbe of the All Progressive Congress (APC). Both parties had contested the […]

By Gabriel Enogholase – Benin No fewer than five leaders of Udeni community in Uhunmwode local government area of Edo State weekend lost their lives in a ghastly motor accident which occurred at Egba junction along the  Benin –Auchi dual carriageway. The victim was said to be returning to the community after attending a funeral […]

AHEAD of the 19th September, 2020 Edo State gubernatorial election,  Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has stressed the need for unity and peace, asking the people of the state not to be divided again irrespective of political, religious or tribal differences

…two critically injured By Ozioruva Aliu BENIN CITY – FIVE staff of Okomu Oil plc in Edo State have been burnt to death in a road accident that occurred along Iguobazuwa road in Ovia South-West local government area. Two others are said to critically injured and currently receiving treatment. It was gathered that the bus […]

By Stephanie Oziwo Following the crisis in Edo State and suspension of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, by a faction of the party, 18 chairmen in the state under the banner of the Edo APC Local Government Chairmen’s Forum, last week, endorsed Charles Idahosa, a former Commissioner for […]

Edo State government has faulted allegations by the former governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Osagie Ize-Iyamu, over the rising spate of political violence in the state, noting that it does not believe in violence as he (Ize-Iyamu), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and their followers in Edo Peoples Movement, EPM, do. In a statement, […]