Author: Iduozee Efe Paul

Two students of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Samson Kennedy, a 200 level student of Biochemistry and Wilfred Emmanuel, a 500-level student of Optometry, have been arrested by the Edo State Police Command for allegedly taking their colleague, 23-years-old Francis Aniude (a final year student of the Department of Chemistry), to Ekosodin River, where he reportedly drowned. The duo, who were neighbours with Aniude, were said to have invited him to the Ekosodin River for sightseeing on June 29, 2023, where he was allegedly drowned by the duo, who ran back to the school campus to raise alarm after the…

It was disappointment and lamentation galore for Edolites as low turnout of voters and late arrival of electoral materials characterised the last local government elections in the state. When National Point correspondent monitored the elections in Egor Local Government Area, one of the municipal councils in Benin City, materials started arriving the units few minutes before 12:7pm. Some political parties’ agents had defied the heavy downpour to arrive at their polling units even before 8am, ensuring parties would not be blamed for delay. Some voters who were at the polling centres some minutes past 8am, expressed surprise that neither electoral…

The council polls conducted in Edo State Saturday September 2, was marred by violence, thuggery and low voter turn-out. Voters in the 192 wards in Edo State went to the polls to vote for candidates of their choice in the rescheduled Local Government polls. Early results from some of the wards showed that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was coasting home to an emphatic victory throughout the three senatorial districts of the state but the Labour Party (LP) cried foul, pulling out of the race and over alleged irregularities, violence and intimidation by heavily armed government sponsored thugs. Angered by…