Author: Iduozee Efe Paul

Ahead of the September 21 Edo State governorship election, the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Edo State have expressed their readiness to partner with the NUJ to ensure there is free, fair and credible elections. The security agencies gave the assurance when the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) visited their offices in Benin City. Receiving the NUJ at the headquarters of 4 Brigade, the Commanding Officer, Brig-Gen Ebenezer Oduyebo, said any organisation that wanted to do well must be friends with journalists. General Oduyebo said they were ready to partner with…

Ahead the September 21 Edo State Governorship election, Edo Civil Society Organizations(EDOSCO) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to make the election free, fair and credible. EDOCSO, which has opened a situation room for the election, charged INEC at a press conference in Benin to assure Edo people by its actions and activities that it is ready for election. The Coordinator-General of EDOSCO, Leftist Omobude Agho, stated, “While calling on our security agencies, the police, DSS, NSCDC and the military not to take part in the rigging plans as recorded previously or putting the lives of citizens in…

Some angry women in Edo State under the umbrella of “Edo Women” have called on a former governor of the state, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, to apologise publicly to the family of Governor Godwin Obaseki over his ‘childless’ comment on Mrs. Besty Obaseki, wife of the governor. The women made the demands during a protest led by Hon. Maria Edeko, Deputy Speaker of the Edo House of Assembly in Benin City. Speaking on behalf of the women, Edeko called on Oshiomhole to also offer a public apology to the women of the state, people of the state and humanity in general.…

Edo State police command has paraded 15 suspects arrested for kidnapping, murder and armed robbery including a teenager who stabbed a 38-year-old woman to death in a hotel room. Parading the suspects, the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Moses Joel Yamu, said on September 5, at about noon operatives of Evbuotubu Division acting on information arrested one Kingdom Paul, 18, who killed his lady friend named Victory Oro, 38, in an undisclosed hotel in Benin City, where they went to have fun. “The victim was immediately rushed to Supreme Hospital Upper Ekenwan where she gave up the ghost. Corpse deposited…

The wife of Edo State Governor, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki, has said that Betsy Obaseki Women Football Tournament (BOWFT) has helped to position female football players on the global stage. Mrs Obaseki stated this in Benin City at a press conference to announce the 2024 Edition of the Betsy Obaseki Women football tournament, with the theme, “Say No To Teen Pregnancy and Child Marriage.” The Edo first lady asserted that the tournament was what she conceived in collaboration with private sector partners to groom and empower the girl-child and engender grassroots sports development in Edo State and Nigeria. Obaseki added that…

The Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, has called for an urgent traditional ritual known as “Bisusu” to safeguard the state from potential calamities. The Esere of Benin, Chief S. O. Obamwonyi, who stated this in a statement on Wednesday on behalf of the Oba, said the directive instructs all traditional leaders, including Chiefs, Enigie (Benin Dukes), Igie-Ohen (traditional priests), and Edionwere (village heads), to immediately conduct the ritual using traditional items associated with the ceremony. The statement emphasized that the ritual would “wave away evil from our land, especially before, during, and after the forthcoming gubernatorial election in our dear…

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) said it declined to sign the Peace Accord, which was organised by the National Peace Committee (NPC) because several of its leaders had been arrested without reason ahead of the election. The State chairman, Tony Aziegbemi, stated that the party would only consider signing the accord if the police released its arrested members. He called for the arrest of certain APC members who he alleged were responsible for the Benin Airport attack on July 18, 2024, which resulted in the death of Police Inspector Akor Onuh. Onuh was attached to Monday Okpebholo, the APC governorship…

The Chairman, Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has said that INEC had mopped up some of the uncollected Permanent Voter Cards across the 18 Local Government Areas of Edo State. Prof. Yakubu, who stated this in Benin City during the stakeholders meeting ahead of the Edo State governorship election, said the PVCs would be warehoused in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) until after the Governorship election. He said Edo State now had a total of 2,629,025 registered voters adding that in their commitment to transparency, the Commission has made available soft copies of the entire register of…

The Police in Edo State has arrested Esan West Local Government Council Chairman, Collins Aigbogun, following a petition written by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo to the Inspector General of Police indicting him over the political violence that erupted in Illeh community. The Commissioner of Police, Nemi Edwin-Iwo, who confirmed the arrest to journalists at the police headquarters in Benin, said Aigbogun was brought to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the command in Benin by the Divisional Police Officer on invitation. He said that on arriving at the office of the CID it was discovered that the…

The convoy of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Monday Okpebholo has crushed one Emmanuel Edionwe and four of his friends to death on Warrake Road around Uzebba axis in Owan West Local Government Area of the State. The sad accident has left the families of the deceased traumatized and devastated with many of them shattered. The victims were returning from a burial when they met their death. The bodies of the victims were deposited at the Edo State University, Uzaurie Mortuary in Etsako West Local Government Area. It was gathered that Okpebholo’s convoy rammed into the…