• 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 [...]
The Isoko North Local government council in collaboration with the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) has built a 46 bed fully equipped cottage hospital including a doctors and nurses quarters and a theatre in Ekuigbo Iyede. During the commissioning of the hospital, the secretary to the state government, Comrade Ovuozorie Macualay commended [...]
Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has come under attack yet again over the handling of the just concluded local government election in the state as the Christian elders and leaders in Edo State called on him to justify his election into office with a credible local government election while asking for cancellation of [...]
SUPPORTERS of the Peoples Democratic Party in Esan North-East Local Government Area of Edo State, on Monday, took to the streets of Uromi, headquarters of the council, protesting the cancellation of the election that was held in the council during last month council election in the state. The PDP supporters, numbering about 3,000, gathered at [...]
KABUL—A suicide bomber on Monday killed the influential head of the provincial council in northern Afghanistan’s Baghlan province, along with at least 13 other people, as the annual fighting season entered into full swing. The blast is the latest in a series of deadly attacks in Afghanistan, which together have killed some 50 people in [...]
A suicide bomber dressed in a police uniform killed 14 people including a prominent provincial council chief outside the council headquarters in northern Afghanistan on Monday, authorities said. The Taliban insurgency quickly claimed responsibility. Seeking to weaken the Afghan government, Taliban insurgents have been carrying out attacks and assassinations intended to intimidate both officials and [...]
The special town hall meeting on the Abuja land swap policy convoked on Friday 26th April, 2013 by the FCT Minister, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has come and gone. It can however be reasoned that some of the issues that were raised there are constitutional while others are based on perception glitches. Yet, some were [...]
SUPPORTERS of the Peoples Democratic Party in Esan North-East Local Government Area of Edo State, on Monday, took to the streets of Uromi, headquarters of the council, protesting the cancellation of the election that was held in the council during last month council election in the state. The PDP supporters, numbering about 3,000, gathered at [...]
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 [...]
THE Edo local council election held three weeks ago have continued to generate controversies across the country, not because of the outcome of the election but because of the dramatis persona, Governor Adams Oshiomhole who popularized the mantra – one man, one vote. While election monitoring had previously helped to give a proper perspective of [...]
THE local government election in Edo state has come and gone with a sweet victory for the ruling party Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) that won 17 chairmanship seats for the party while that of Esan North East has been postponed to a later date. The victory is attributed to Comrade Adams Oshiomhole’s [...]
CHRISTIAN elders and leaders in Edo State have called on Governor Adams Oshiomhole to justify his election into office with a credible local government administration, while asking for cancellation of the April council polls and dissolution of the Edo State Independent Election Commission (EDSIEC). This was made known yesterday in a statement signed by Osa [...]
The chairman, Esan South-East Local Government Area of Edo State, Honourable Joseph Ikpea, has urged the councilors to make laws that would impact positively on the lives of the people in the council. Ikpea stated this at the swearing-in ceremony of the councilors held at the council secretariat in Ubiaja. He also enjoined them to [...]
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has slammed the PDP for seeking to disparage and distract Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, at a time the party (PDP) itself is in dire need of attention to prevent it from imploding. In a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai [...]
Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has come under attack yet again over the handling of the just concluded local government election in the state as the Christian elders and leaders in Edo State called on him to justify his election into office with a credible local government election while asking for cancellation of [...]
INCUMBENT Edo State chief executive, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, through the help of the courts, rode into office on the popular mandate he got from the people in the 2007 elections. And he promised therefrom a mantra of ‘one man, one vote.’ Indeed, there had been series of elections conducted in the state since the change [...]
University of Abuja The Federal Government inaugurated a new governing council at the school. The new Governing Council of the University of Abuja will work with staff, students, and management to improve the quality of learning in the university, the new Pro-Chancellor of the school, S.O. Ogbemudia, has said. Mr. Ogbemudia stated this at a [...]
The Congress of Progressive Change (CPC) on Friday described as “naked injustice’’ the annulment of the Esan North East local government council poll held on April 25. The Chairman of the Edo State Independent Electoral Commission (EDSIEC), Mr Solomon Ogoh, on Wednesday annulled the rescheduled council election in Esan North East, alleged to have been won by the [...]
The PDP responded to Thursday’s cancellation of council elections in Esan North East local Government Area. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, as “a rampaging evil.” The party stated this in its response to Thursday’s cancellation of council elections in Esan North East Local Government Area by the [...]
• 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 [...]
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