The Edo State Government says it has expended over N4.3 billion in clearing pension arrears owed about 3,128 pensioners in the state. The state government also says it spent N25, 047,472, 632.77 in monthly pension payment to 13,081 pensioners from November 2016 to May 2020. According to a Mid-Year Report by the Edo State Pension…
Edo Legislature Now to Sit at Government House
The Edo House of Assembly on Wednesday moved its sitting venue to the old legislative chambers situated inside the government house in Benin. This was contained in a statement signed by the clerk of the house, Yahaya Omogbai, and made available to newsmen in Benin, Edo State capital. “Following the ongoing fumigation exercise, repairs/renovation including…
Edo 2020: PDP Commends Obaseki Over Approval To Use Stadium For Primaries
As political parties in Edo State count down to their respective primaries, the state chapter of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has been granted approval by the state governor to use of the newly reconstructed Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia stadium as venue of the exercise. The party is adopting indirect mode of primary in the selection…
Obaseki Orders Police Investigation into Gruesome Murder of Omozuwa, UNIBEN Female Student
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has ordered thorough investigation into the circumstances that led to the death of Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a 100-level female student of the Department of Microbiology, University of Benin (UNIBEN), in Ikpoba Hill axis of Benin City, the state capital. Omozuwa was alleged to have been raped after her head was…
COVID-19: Reject Direct Primary Election, Concerned Edo Citizens Warn Political Parties
The direct mode of primary election adopted by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to select its candidate for the September 19, 2020 governorship election in Edo State is ruffling feathers in the polity in the state. The APC had fixed June 22 for its primary election in which incumbent governor, Godwin Obaseki, and six…
Ogiemwonyi wants Edo Security Outfit Wabazighan Abolished
Says Political Terrorism could discourage Investors Former minister of state for works and an All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant for the September 19, 2020 election in Edo State, Chris Ogiemwonyi, wants the state security outfit created by the state government called Wabazighan, abolished. Ogiemwonyi, a petroleum engineer and former group executive director of the…
Second Term: Leadership Crisis Rocks Edo CAN
Crisis is brewing in the Edo State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, as an attempt by the current Oyonnude Kure leadership to get a renewed mandate for another term on a platter of gold failed on Monday at a state executive committee meeting of the Association. Consequent upon the degeneration of the…
Edo State Government Begins Implementation of N30,000 Minimum Wage
As organized labour in the country warms up to tackle state governments that are still prevaricating over the implementation of approved national minimum wage of N30,000, Edo State Government says it has commenced payment to its workforce with effect from January 2020. Special Adviser to the State Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie, confirmed…
Your membership card is suspect, Obaseki-led APC Political Camp tells Ize-Iyamu
…You are jokers, Ize-Iyamu fires back Osagie Ize-Iyamu, former vice-chairman, South-south zone of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the 2016 governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, whose return to the ruling party has been shaking the table in the polity, has reacted to the insinuation that his APC membership card may be…
Edo Spare Parts Traders in Agony Over Market Fire
With the inauguration of an investigative panel, Edo State government is set to unravel the mystery surrounding a mid-night inferno that wreaked destruction of monumental proportion on a section of the popular Uwelu spare parts market even as distraught traders suspect the security men in charge of the market of complicity Outrage, agony, lamentation, frustration…
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