Operatives of the Police Command in Edo have arrested 22 suspected cultists in the state. The suspects were reportedly arrested in a hotel in Benin where they were holding a meeting, ahead of an attack on some members of a rival group. Spokesperson of the command, SP Chidi...
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A Pentecostal pastor, Dr Azemhe Azena, has emerged the candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) for the Sept. 21 governorship election in Edo. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Yakubu Shendam, stated in Abuja on Sunday that Azena polled 211 votes to defeat three other aspirants...
Less than three days to the primary election of the Labour Party (LP) for the Governorship election in Edo, operatives of the Zone 5 headquarters of the Nigeria Police have arrested the National Chairman of the party, Mr Julius Abure. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that...
Rep. Dennis Idahosa (APC-Edo) has emerged as the All Progressives candidate for the Sept.21 Edo governorship election. Gov. Hope Uzodimma of Imo, the Chairman of the APC Edo governorship primary election committee, said this at the end of the election on Saturday in Benin. Uzodimma said that...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Edo on Friday warned political parties and their aspirants to pull down campaign billboards, posters and jingles being aired on television and Radio stations in the state. INEC said the warning was because the ban on election campaigns had not been...
The Sen. Seriake Dickson-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Appeal Panel into the ward congresses election in Edo has called for a political solution to the crisis in the party. The panel, however, shelved calls for the cancellation of the controversial election. This is contained in the report of...
Many residents of Benin have decried the hike in price of cooking gas, which now sells for N1,400 per kilogramme. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the development has led to hardship as the residents are finding it difficult to cope. A kilogramme of gas that...
Ahead of its primary election slated for Feb. 17, the All Progressives Congress (APC), has cleared all the 12 aspirants jostling for its ticket to contest the Sept. 22 governorship election. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that the 12 aspirants had purchased and returned their duly completed...
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has assured the party’s nine protesting governorship aspirants in Edo that their protests would not go in vain. This is contained in a statement signed by Chief Dan Orbih, the National Vice Chairman, PDP, South-South, a copy of which was made available to...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant for the September 2024 governorship election in Edo State, Dr. Asue Ighodalo, ton Wednesday said that his nomination and subsequent election will bring development to the state. Ighodalo, who made this known while addressing Oredo PDP leaders and members as part...
A young man suspected to be an electric cable vandal has been electrocuted in Jattu, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo. A source told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday that residents of the community woke up to meet the corpse of the suspect dangling...
In recent times Edo has been grappling with a surge in cult-related violence leading to loss of lives and a pervasive sense of insecurity among its residents. Over the past month alone, the state has witnessed the tragic loss of more than 35 persons, including a journalist and...
The Commissioner of Police in Edo, Mr Funsho Adegboye, has described as worrisome the spate of proliferation of firearms and cult attacks in the state. Adegboye, while responding to a question on the incessant cult attacks in Benin on Tuesday, however, assured that the police would fish out...
The Management of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo, has called for the arrest and prosecution of operators of illegal satellite campuses in the name of the university. The university in a statement on Saturday, while reacting to a recent report credited to the National Universities Commission (NUC), described...
No fewer than 2,078 Small Holder Farmers (SHFs) have received Irrigation Equipment and Assets from the Edo state government . Stephen Idehenre, the state commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, flagged off the distribution of the equipment on Friday to the benefiting farmers in Benin. Idehenre said that...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Immediate past Minister of State for Budget and National Planning and frontline Edo State governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, has felicitated Edo people and Nigerians on the occasion of this year’s Christmas celebration....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Labour Party (LP) on Sunday said it was being repositioned to clinch the governorship seat in the Edo 2024 election. National Publicity Secretary of LP, Mr Obiora Ifoh, made this known in a statement in Abuja. According to Ifoh, the party in...
The acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Umar Damagum, has said there is no more rancour in the Edo chapter of the party. Damagum stated this when he spoke with the media, shortly after a meeting of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC)...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Thursday said hoodlums have shot and injured 3 of its operatives during a drug raid in Edo State. The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement,...
Some gubernatorial aspirants are already embattled by mere provocatory tickles. One received what he called an insult when he went to talk to his Ewohinmi people. I saw him talking tough and describing their idle chit-chat as the burdensome musings of peppersoup and beer parlour joint. He...