A joint operation by the Benin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, has led to the arrest of a female suspected cyber fraudster to whom 185 Bitcoin with a market value of N656,371,490 had been traced. Disclosing this to newsmen Monday in Benin, Muhtar…
2023: Expect All-Women Political Party – Josephine Anenih
These are not the best of times for Nigerian women. Politically, they have been handed the short end of the stick with very poor showing during the 2019 general elections and abysmal representation in appointive positions both at the federal level and in the states. And with the worsening security situation and criminality in the…
Another Recipe for Crisis in Edo APC
There may be more trouble ahead for the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State if the governor, Godwin Obaseki goes ahead to hound party members who asserted themselves during the 2019 primary elections. The governor, receiving the report of the party’s reconciliation committee which looked into the bad blood generated by the outcome…
SSANU/NASU Warning Strike Takes Toll on Varsity Communities
Just one day into the five-day warning strike embarked upon by the senior staff association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the non-academic staff union, NASU, which began this Monday, the industrial action is already taking its toll on the university communities in Edo State, namely the University of Benin and the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma.…
Obaseki’s Visit, Govt. Panel on Edo Market Fire, Misplaced Priority, Says PDP
Major opposition party in Edo State, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has chided the state government for being so quick to visit and set up a panel to probe the mid-night fire that destroyed goods worth millions of naira at the popular Uwelu auto spare parts market in Benin-City, the state capital on Tuesday, describing…
Progress in Multi-billion Naira Projects Excite Okowa
Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa cannot wait to see three very ambitious projects of his administration completed. When he visited the project sites on inspection Thursday, the medical doctor-governor could not hide his excitement about how the multi-billion naira projects were taking shape. The projects are the Central Secretariat, Delta State Traditional Rulers Council Secretariat,…
Edo Spare Parts Traders in Agony Over Market Fire
With the inauguration of an investigative panel, Edo State government is set to unravel the mystery surrounding a mid-night inferno that wreaked destruction of monumental proportion on a section of the popular Uwelu spare parts market even as distraught traders suspect the security men in charge of the market of complicity Outrage, agony, lamentation, frustration…
Catholic Bishop Lambasts FG Over Insecurity
In the face of grave security concerns across the country, the Bishop of Benin Archdiocese of the Catholic Church, Augustine Akubeze has upbraided the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government over seeming loss of control in securing the country. He also expressed discomfiture at the apparent intolerance of criticism by the government. In his homily during a…
Incestuous Rape: Conviction of Jacob Alonge Proof That Justice is Not Evasive – Priscilla Usiobaifo [INTERVIEW]
As the presiding magistrate of an Evboriaria magistrate court in Benin City, Edo State, D. Adamaigbo, handed down a 21-year jail term to Jacob Alonge, a native doctor who for over three years raped and impregnated his under-aged daughter Gift, tears streamed down the cheeks of Priscilla Usiobaifo, whose NGO, BraveHeart Initiative for Youth and Women, BHI,…
Fear Grips Auchi Residents Over Erosion Menace
Ahead of expected intense rainfall after the August break, the people of erosion-ravaged Auchi in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State are now living in trepidation of the likely effect of massive flood on the ancient town. Expressing the fear of his people at a press conference, the Otaru of Auchi Kingdom, Aliru…
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