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A Mobile Court sitting in Benin City has convicted four more drivers in the metropolis for violating the state’s traffic laws, slamming the erring drivers with fines totaling N190,000, as well as psychiatric evaluation. Available information on ground revealed that, the convicted drivers are among those apprehended by the Edo State Public Works Volunteers (PUWOV) for driving against the traffic (one-way). The arrest and prosecution are a part of renewed efforts by the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration to restore sanity and order on roads in the Benin metropolis. It was gathered that the culprits are; Bright Okorie, a Nissan Vanette…

Following earlier calls by the Edo State Government warning traditional rulers, Odionweres and community leaders, to desist from harbouring criminals and kidnappers in their houses, the state government has charged eight suspects to court, for conniving with kidnappers to attack the Edo train station which led to the abduction of 21 passengers, recently. Arraigned before the Edo State High Court on two count charges, were the eight suspects including Chief Ibadin Hamilton, Ighoko Mustapher Odion, Okojie Dominic Ewa, Ojie Patrick, Friday Ighedujiemu, Halilu Umaru, Aminu Ibrahim and Isah Aliyu. Governor Obaseki had earlier called for the investigation of circumstances surrounding…

As the 2023 general elections, billed to kick-off February 25 draws closer by the day, a Benin based socio-cultural group, Benin Solidarity Movement, (BSM), has seriously criticized the “no poster by the opposition” policy of the Governor Godwin Obaseki administration where all other political parties, except the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), are barred from pasting posters in and around the city center or anywhere in the state capital. A statement signed by Comrade Curtis Eghosa Ugbo, president-general, Benin Solidarity Movement (BSM) Worldwide, “accused the governor of playing politics of bitterness by denying other political parties the right of access to…

Barely weeks after the kidnap of train passengers at Igueben train station, kidnappers suspected to be herdsmen have killed three persons and abducted 13 others in Emokpae community, Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State. Most of the victims are students of a secondary school and aggrieved by the endless harassment, family members of the abductees have staged a protest. Expressing their anger to newsmen at the Edo State Government House during a peaceful protest, leader of the group who simply identified his name as Commander Egua, said the incident happened last Wednesday afternoon. He said the bus…

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have busted a cannabis syndicate operating in the Opuje forests in Opuje Community, Owan West Local Government Area of Edo State. The cannabis were kept in a massive warehouse, and tents. Following the discovery, over 317,417 kilograms (317.4 metric tons) of the psychoactive substance were also destroyed and set ablaze in the forest. Disclosing the information, the director, Media and Advocacy of the Anti-Drug Agency, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Saturday, added that a police impersonator, Omoruan Theophilus, was arrested during the two-day operation. Babafemi stated that the 37-year-old impostor…

Tragedy struck on Saturday, January 21, 2023, when midday fire burnt a lot of shops in the popular Lagos street of the Oba Market in Benin city, the Edo State capital. Goods and property worth millions of naira were destroyed in the inferno. One of the eyewitnesses, who said she did not want her name to be mentioned, told National Point that they could not really explain how the fire started. The source said when they discovered that there was a thick dark smoke in one of the shops in the building before the fire spread to other shop, they…

The Edo State Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Dankwara, said the police have arrested 30 kidnap suspects, 22 armed robbery suspects and 36 cultists in less than three months since he assumed office in the state. CP Muhammed Dankwara who made the disclosure at a press briefing in his office at the State Police Command Headquarters, Benin City. He gave the breakdown of arrested suspects and items as: two fraud suspects, six murder suspects, 20 attempted murder suspects, 10 stealing suspects, one gun running suspects, two for unlawful possession of fire arms, 5 AK 47, 105 cartridges, seven live ammunitions, 10…

The Edo state former governor and the All Progressive Congress APC Senatorial candidate for Edo north district, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, recently suffered a political blow in Auchi with the defection of his two strong loyalist to the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP. The two loyalists who led their supporters in the defection are Hon Maryam Abubakar and Prince Charlaman Mko Momoh. Hon Maryam Abubakar was former Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s commissioner nominee in the Governor Godwin Obaseki’s first tenure on the APC banner. The former commissioner who came into politics after a successful career in the banking is noted for her political…

Following the rise in fuel price and the consequent scarcity of the product, protesters, comprising youths, on Thursday, blocked the ever busy Lagos-Benin Expressway at Oluku Junction. The commuters who were on their way to Lagos and those hoping to do business in the axis were stranded for long hours. The transporters who lamented the blockade, expressed dissatisfaction over the incident. Speaking, a trader, Grace Emmanuel who was conveying her goods to Ekiadolor said it was pertinent for her to take her perishable good to where she would sell them to avoid incurring losses. “It is unfortunate that this protesting…

President of the World Medical Association (WMA), Dr. Osahon Enabulele has informed that very soon physicians who distinguish themselves by adding more value and ideas to the advancement of the profession will be honoured with the Global Excellence Award (GEA). Dr. Enabulele said part of the strategies the current leadership of WMA is adopting is to encourage physicians who advance the profession and are more industrious in their fields are honoured with the award. Dr. Enabulele made the disclosure at the Annual Assembly of the Swedish Medical Association held at the Radisson Blue Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden, where he condemned the…