Category: Etsako• CRPP, AP laud exercise BUT for the timely intervention of the police, a bloody clash would have ensued Tuesday between suspected supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Edo State over last weekend’s local council elections. However, despite the protests against the polls in some quarters [...]
AGENEBODE – A Benin High Court sitting in Agenebode and presided over by Justice V.O.A. Oviawe has adjourned ruling on whether it has jurisdiction or not on a matter brought before it by Hon. Godwin Eshieshi against the Chairman, Etsako East Local Government Council of Edo State, Hon Abdulmalik Suleiman Afegbua. In the case with [...]
• 23-year- old victim begs for financial assistance to go to India for treatment IF anyone had told Blessing Ikhumhi that Okosun Cyril, the man she once loved, would turn around and bath her with acid, she would not have believed it. Neighbours and friends used to see the duo as Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. [...]
RESIDENTS of Agbede in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State have appealed to the state government to save them from the menace of gully erosion. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that several houses, especially those in Atido Quarters might soon give way to erosion. The gully, according to the residents started [...]
• 23-year- old victim begs for financial assistance to go to India for treatment IF anyone had told Blessing Ikhumhi that Okosun Cyril, the man she once loved, would turn around and bath her with acid, she would not have believed it. Neighbours and friends used to see the duo as Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. [...]
A magistrate’s court sitting in Auchi, Edo State, on Tuesday, ordered that a member of the state House of Assembly, Mr Rasaq Momoh, be remanded in prison. Momoh, who represents Etsako West Constituency I, was arrested in Agbede, Etsako West Local Government Area of the state, during the local government elections on April 20, 2013, [...]
The Butchers Association in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State has appealed to the council to construct modern abattoir to prevent the outbreak of epidemics. The branch chairman of the association, Mr Tunde Akanfe, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jattu, Edo, recently. Akanfe observed [...]
AUCHI – Residents of Agbede community in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo have appealed to the Federal Government to complete the damming of River Akele to end the age-long water scarcity in the community. Some resident, who spoke with newsmen on the issue, lamented that non- completion of the project that was started [...]
Prominent chiefs of South-Ibie, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State, have urged Alhaji Aliu kelvin Zibiri Danesi to stop parading himself as the traditional ruler of South-Ibie Kingdom by obeying several court judgments to that effect, saying the act is tantamount to contempt of court. The traditional chiefs, who made this known in [...]
Residents of Agbede community in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo have appealed to the Federal Government to complete the damming of River Akele to end the age-long water scarcity in the community. Some resident, who spoke with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the issue, lamented that non- completion of the project that [...]
– By Abdul Mahmud The advertorial titled, ‘’Edo PDP and bedroom-based election monitors’’, signed by Julius Ihonvbere, Secretary to the Edo State Government, and published by ‘The Nation’ newspaper of Wednesday May 8 2013 provides a sad reading. That a former university teacher who passes himself off as a professor could in a cavalier manner [...]
Groundnut has to be one of the most universally loved foods. I am yet to meet anyone who hates groundnuts, except those who suffer from nut allergies, and to them I sincerely say sorry. I am a huge fan of groundnut, so imagine my joy when I was introduced to this soup at a friend’s [...]
AGBEDE-Several residents of Agbede Community, in Etsako West local government area of Edo have abandoned their homes over ravaging gully erosion problem in the area. The NIGERIAN OBSERVER observed that about five houses have been swallowed, with several others on the verge of been swallowed by the ravaging gully erosion problem in the Atido quarters [...]
RESIDENTS of Agbede in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State have appealed to the state government to save them from the menace of gully erosion. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that several houses, especially those in Atido Quarters might soon give way to erosion. The gully, according to the residents started [...]
The world-acclaimed Okpekpe Road Race that took place last Saturday in Okpekpe, Edo State, gave many a glimpse of the developmental stride in the state, writes BANJI ALUKO. WHEN, in May last year, the people of Okpekpe and Imiegba in Etsako East Local Government of Edo State clashed over a laterite-rich piece of land, no [...]
Newly-sworn-in chairman of Etsako-East Local Government Area of Edo State, Mr. Suleman Afegbua, has assured the people of the state that all the elected local government chairmen would work hard for the development of their councils and ensure that they do not disappoint the people of the state. Afegbua, in a statement he personally signed, [...]
Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole The lawmaker was initially charged for unlawful possession of firearm. A Magistrates Court sitting in Auchi, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State, on Tuesday, ordered that a member of the Edo State House of Assembly, Rasaq Momoh, should be remanded in prison until June 3. Mr. Momoh, who [...]
OFFICIALS of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) are holding back the prize money meant for top three finishers at the maiden 10km Okpekpe Road race, which took place in Edo State at the weekend. Kenyan athletes won both the male and female categories with Ugandan and Ethiopian athletes also winning prize monies in the [...]
A man, identified as Victor Adepoju, was found dead by the side of a stream less than 48 hours after participating in last Saturday’s Okpekpe Road race. The body of the man, who was said to a staff of the Edo State Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning, was said to have been discovered by [...]
SATURDAY, the sleepy town of Okpekpe in Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State, famous for its mountainous landscape, will be agog as established road runners troop in from the length and breadth of Africa and other parts of the world to take part in the maiden edition of Okpekpe Road Race. Promoted by [...]
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