Trending Video Of Bandit In Edo: Okpebholo Holds Security Meeting, Scales Up Surveillance Along Highways, Communities
Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting Following the trending video circulating on social media, allegedly featuring a self-acclaimed bandit issuing threats and claiming presence around Ekpoma and adjoining communities in Edo Central Senatorial District, the governor, Monday Okpebholo has held meeting with top security chiefs with the view of scaling up security and thwarting such threat. In a […]
Aisha Yesufu Drags Okpebholo Over No Clearance, No Entering Comment On Obi, Says “Edo State Not Your Family Estate”
Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting Renowned human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, has dragged the Edo State governor, Monday Okpebholo out to the public domain following his no clearance, no entering into the state’s comment on the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, saying that the state is not his family property. Aisha Yesufu, […]
Edo PDP Queries Okpebholo’s N100bn Loan
Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has queried the recent approval of N100 billion loan to the state governor, Monday Okpebholo, by the state House of Assembly. Recall that the Edo State House of Assembly had on Tuesday approved a N100 billion loan facility from First Bank of Nigeria […]
Gov. Sani Names Hospital After Tinubu, Seeks Federal Backing For Nuclear Facility
KADUNA – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has inaugurated a 300-bed specialist hospital at Millennium City, Kaduna State, named in his honour as the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Specialist Hospital. At the inauguration on Thursday, Governor Uba Sani revealed that the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority had approved a cancer and nuclear treatment centre within the hospital complex. “But […]
Diphtheria Disease: Edo Govt Places Hospitals On Red Alert, Intensify Detections
Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting The Edo State government said it has placed hospitals in the state on red alert to address patients brought in with the Diphtheria disease. The state governor, Monday Okpebholo, disclosed this through a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Fred Itua in Benin City. The statement said, the state government wishes […]
Herdsmen Attack: Gen. Esekhaigbe Rtd To Chair 27-Man Committee On Livestock Control
….Promises To Stick To Terms Of Reference Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting General Cecil Esekhaigbe has been appointed by the Edo State governor, Monday Okpebholo to chair a-27-Man Committee on Livestock Control Committee to address the incessant attacks on farmers by suspected Fulani herdsmen and farmers and herders clashes in the state. The committee’s mandate is to […]
Edo And Monday Okpebholo’s Stone Age, Draconian Governance Model – By Daniel A. Noah Osa-Ogbegie
There comes a time in the life of a people when silence becomes complicity. In Edo State today, that time is now. Installed amid controversy and widely perceived by many as a placeholder leadership awaiting final adjudication of the Supreme Court, Senator Monday Okpebholo has turned the reins of government into an instrument of fear, […]
Edo Guber Tribunal Verdict: Ighodalo Rejects Judgment, Heads To Appeal Court
EDO, BENIN CITY – The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the September 21, 2024, Edo State governorship election, Dr. Asue Ighodalo, has rejected the verdict of the Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, describing it as a “huge travesty of justice.” In a statement issued shortly after the tribunal’s ruling, Ighodalo expressed […]
PDP Demands FG Intervention in Edo State Over Suspension of Elected Council Chairmen
The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused Senator Monday Okpebholo’s administration of violating the law by appointing local government officials instead of recognizing elected chairmen. The party is calling on the Federal Government to withhold statutory allocations to local councils in the state until the Supreme Court ruling on local […]
Gbolemotin Community Seeks Edo Govt, Security Agencies’ Probe Into Killing Of Farmers
Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting The people of Gbolemotin, an autonomous Ijaw Community in Gbaran Clan, Ovia South West Local Government Area of Edo State, have called on the state government and the various security agencies to carry out thorough investigations into the immediate and remote causes of the incident that led to the killing several persons […]