Category: Benin City
Recently, the Edo State governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, was given a title, Oshosimua; meaning, I was told, Divine Redeemer of his people. This is a most blasphemous title which only a mind inspired by the old serpent can conjure. Interestingly, the election that Mr Redeemer supervised has been described by many observers as a daylight [...]
THE Police have appealed to the Supreme Court the affirmation of the Court of Appeal in the N5 million judgment sum awarded to the Executive Director of the African Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), Rev. David Ugolor by a Benin High Court for his unlawful remand in police and prison custody for 41 [...]
EDO State Wednesday made a first, though in the wrong way, as it witnessed the seizure and destruction of the largest tonnes of cannabis sativa popularly called marijuana in one year ever by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) anywhere in the country. The total quantity destroyed at the NDLEA state command destruction site [...]
POLICE have launched a search for the abducted wife, Adedoyin and daughter of Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour of the Supreme Court in the forest of Edo State, Nigerian Tribune has reliably gathered. Doyin, her daughter and the driver to the family were kidnapped by gunmen on Friday at about 5.00 p.m within Edo State jurisdiction, a [...]
Consul-General of the United States to Nigeria, Mr. Jeffry Hawkins has disclosed plans by the United States government to establish a $250 million fertilizer plant in Edo State. Mr. Hawkins, who described Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as one of the most effective governors in Nigeria made the disclosure during a courtesy call and [...]
THE Police have appealed to the Supreme Court the affirmation of the Court of Appeal in the N5 million judgment sum awarded to the Executive Director of the African Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), Rev. David Ugolor by a Benin High Court for his unlawful remand in police and prison custody for 41 [...]
AFTER years of abandonment, the Federal Government has completed and Tuesday commissioned multi-million naira irrigation project in Ukpoke, Ikpobha Okha Local Council of Edo State. Minister of Water Resources, Mrs. Sarah Ochekpe, during a courtesy visit to Governor Adams Oshiomhole before the commissioning, said the project would help boost food production and also reduce poverty [...]
Mr. Ugolor was detained for several months in 2012. The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, and the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, have appealed last month’s ruling of the Court of Appeal in Benin City which ordered the payment of N5 million as damages to David Ugolor, over his illegal detention by the police. Following the [...]
Governor Adams Oshiomhole has promised to provide assistance to farmers in the state on irrigation farming, as the Minister of Water Resources, Mrs Sarah Ochekpe, appealed for more land for that purpose in the state. Mrs. Ochekpe made the appeal in Benin on Tuesday when she led a delegation comprising senior management staff of the [...]
BEFORE Edo Police Commissioner, Mr. Foluso Adebanjo was posted to Benin City, nearly everyone was complaining about the need for one. This was because the absence of a substantive police commissioner allegedly compromised Edo Police Command’s ability to take effective crime-control of the 19,794 square kilometers of the state’s territory, according to some people. [...]
Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has lauded Guinness Nigeria Plc. for investing about N35 billion in expanding the capacity of its Benin Brewery. Comrade Oshiomhole described the company as a valued private sector partner with the best interest of the people and government of Edo State at heart. He attributed the increased inflow of [...]
THE head of a local vigilance group at Upper Uwa and Amadasun Street in Ikpoba Okha Local Council of Edo State, Lucky Amadasun, has allegedly killed his friend identified as Amaosa Otabor, who was intervening in a dispute between Amadasun and another friend simply identified as Osasu. The late Amaosa, aged 27, was said reportedly [...]
The Federal Government last Tuesday declared a state of emergency in three states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe due to rising insecurity and breakdown of law and order. President Goodluck Jonathan, quoting Section 305 (1) of the 1999 Constitution in a nationwide broadcast, however, failed to remove the governors of the states, saying that they [...]
By Willy Bozimo As the tempo of political activities in the country gather greater momentum, two zones out of the six came to Asaba, the capital of Delta State, on Sunday, May 12, 2013 to fashion out a common ground for economic and political integration. At the end of the deliberations of the 10 governors, [...]
Ayo Afolabi, South-West Publicity Secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), in this interview with ABIODUN FANORO, accused the Presidency of conniving with Dr. Frederick Fasehun, leader of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) to resuscitate the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) with a view to destabilising the zone. WHY is your party jittery [...]
When the Federal Government launched a campaign on back to school for the boy-child education in the South East geo-political zone last year, many people especially those who were concerned over continued abandonment of formal education by young boys in the zone, heaved a sigh of relief. Osby Isibor, Abuja, NNAMDI MBAWIKE, Enugu, ANAYO ONUKWUGHA, [...]
Governor Rotimi Amechi By Chuks Okocha in Abuja Determined to save the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) from disintegration, several governors, especially those considered to be pro-presidency, have begun moves to ensure that the chairmanship election billed for Thursday does not hold. Instead, they are opting for the emergence of a chairman of the forum on [...]
NATIONAL Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sunday, raised alarm that the nation’s democracy was under serious threat, just as it condemned the just concluded local government election in Edo State. According to PDP, since June 12, 1993, presidential election that was annulled, Nigeria as a country had never witnessed what the party alleged [...]
Stallion By Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City A private initiative, Stallion Group, has indicated its readiness to invest in rice production in Edo State, just as the state government assured it of a conducive environment. The disclosure was made when the Business Development Manager, Stallion Group, Mr. Sunil Dhermappa, paid a courtesy visit at Government [...]
IT was a historic moment for the members of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) when they converged in Gusau, Zamfara State, for a special convention to ratify and endorse the merger of opposition political parties into All Progressives Congress (APC). The unprecedented crowd of supporters, which defied the security web that barricaded the Trade [...]
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Fulani Forum to NEF: You Do Not Represent The Good People of North Nigeri
Fulani Forum to NEF: You Do Not Represent The Good People of North Nigeria In lieu of your statement: NEF to Jonathan: You‘ve declared war on Northern Nigeria We progressive youth of North Nigeria hereby assert that the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) does not represent the good people of North Nigeria. We are disappointed in [...]
Japan, a subtle but effective partner for Africa
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Malian children face education crisis
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Livestock tracking in Africa goes high tech
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Boko Haram Are Cannibals and Drug Addicts; It Is Time To Eradicate This Scourge
Boko Haram Are Cannibals and Drug Addicts; It Is Time To Eradicate This Scourge To the President and Nigeria’s people AssalamualikumWe the MuslimsAgainstTerror.com here by offer our prayers and support for the mission to bring an end to Abubakar Shekau’s Boko Haram. We are pleased to hear of the declared states of emergency. Even though [...]
Clergy Bethrand Osinachi Ujunwa calls for unity among Christians
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May 8, 2013 Boko Haram has waged a war against Nigeria In total violation of the fundamental principles of society, the Nigerian government is yet to respond to the war it’s people and military have been subjected to. The May 7th occurrence in Bama, Maiduguri is the latest in a series of full scale rebel [...]
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Allegations of cocaine use are too serious to ignore
Mayor Rob Ford is fooling himself if he thinks that the crack-video affair will blow over. Nothing was seen or heard of Mr. Ford over the long weekend as the city absorbed a shocking allegation that he had been caught on video smoking crack cocaine. Returning to city hall on Tuesday, he dodged the media [...]
Eurovision: Azerbaijan probes Russian ‘nul points’
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