To Seek Audience With Palace To Iron Out Grey Areas The Edo State government on Monday broke its silence on the face-off between it and the Palace of the Oba of Benin, Ewuare 11, Ogidigan, on the custody of stolen artefacts to be repatriated from Germany and other foreign countries. Secretary to the State Government,…
Hope Dims as Edo Police Hit Brick Wall In MFM Pastor’s Whereabouts
…Alerts Wife in SMS Abductors Hired Assassins, Not Kidnappers Is Dan Osato Osamwonyi, a Pastor with Mountain of Fire Ministry, (MFM) Prayer City Region 66, Benin City, Edo State, who was abducted somewhere along Sapele Road over a month and a half ago dead or alive? This is the maze men of the state Police…
Two Weird Sisters Live with Mother’s Decomposed Corpse for 9 Days
…Claim it was in Obedience to the Lord’s Instruction Residents of a neighbourhood in Benin City, Edo State capital, were shocked at the weekend to discover the decomposed corpse of a 78-year-old woman in her apartment kept there by her two daughters nine days after her death. Strangely, the two women, Grace Osagede, 60, and…
Edo Govt Reads Riot Act to Citizens on Removal of Illegal Structures
The Edo State Government said on Tuesday that it is intensifying the removal of shopping malls, hotels and other commercial buildings erected without appropriate approvals from the relevant regulatory authorities. Reading out the riot act to residents, Secretary to the State Government, Osarodion Ogie, in a statement, said the exercise is aimed at ensuring order…
Edo APC Upbraids Obaseki over New Wave of Demolition of Prime Properties
About 16 months after the demolition of T. Latifah Hotel and Suites, Benin, belonging to Tony Adun, aka Tony Kabaka, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Edo State, and close ally of the immediate past governor of the state, Adams Oshiomhole, the state government has pulled down another set of commercial buildings…
13 Lucky Kidnap Victims Rescued by Edo Police
…Sack Abductors From Forest Thirteen kidnap victims were on Saturday rescued by a combined team of security operatives in Edo State, in an operation led by the state police commissioner, Philip Ogbadu. The lucky victims were rescued from the notorious kidnappers’ den in the Ahor axis of Aduwawa at the Bypass linking the Benin-Auchi Expressway,…
Tension in Edo Community as Defiant Illegal Miners Return to Gold Mining Sites
Illegal miners hitherto sacked by the state government from some mining sites in Dagbala, Akoko-Edo local government area of Edo State, have staged a daring and massive come-back, this time, in neighbouring communities thereby heightening tension in the affected areas, particularly Ikpeshi, Atte and environs. It was learnt that the illegal miners, in their hundreds,…
No-Work, No-Pay Policy: Edo Teachers Lament Cut in Salaries, As Some School Heads May be Dropped
[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] Apparently making good its threat to sanction its teachers who went on a strike action called by the Edo State chapter of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT by invoking its no-work, no-pay policy, primary school teachers in the state are lamenting the cut in their February salaries. The strike, which lasted five…
Sack NDDC Sole Admin Now or We Shut Down Oil Facilities, Block Entry Points to Edo, Angry Youths Tell Buhari
Calls for Akpabio’s Resignation. [responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] Angry youths in their hundreds on Friday threatened to shut down all oil installations in Edo State, as well as the East-west Road and other access roads to the state if the president, Muhammadu Buhari, did not sack the sole administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC whom…
Stop Removing Manhole Covers on Roads, Walkways or Risk Arrest, Edo Govt Warns Criminals
[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] Edo State government has directed men of the state police command to arrest and prosecute anyone caught removing manhole covers on major roads and walkways. The government also urged members of the public to report such persons to the nearest security agency or to the Ministry of Environment and Sustainability. In a statement…
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