After about eight months of judicial rigmarole, it was judgment day last Thursday for Jacob Alonge, a native doctor, who was for over three years, engaged in an incestuous rape of his under-aged daughter, Gift. She got pregnant for him in the process. The 52-year-old herbalist, a native of Ososo in Akoko-Edo local government area of…
We Will Deliver Mandate Transparently – Askia Ogieh, CEO, DESOPADEC
The new managing director and chief executive officer, CEO of the Delta State Oil-Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Askia Ogieh has assured that the newly inaugurated board of the interventionist agency would adopt the principles of popular participation, equity and transparency in the discharge of its mandate. Ogieh also assured that they would endeavour to…
DESOPADEC Board: Ijaw Community Threatens Shut-Down of Oil Facility
Gives Okowa Five-Day Ultimatum Angry youths from Diebiri Kingdom in Warri South West local government area of Delta State on Tuesday stormed the Delta State House of Assembly complex, Asaba to protest their alleged denial of membership of the board of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC. At the time of the…
Pension: Hope Rises for More Edo Senior Citizens
Some pensioners in Edo State may smile soon as the state government kicks off the process of its phased payment of pension arrears to senior citizens of the state who had been marking time on the queue for some years now. Sunday this week, the Godwin Obaseki-led government announced the commencement of physical and documentary…
Edo Legislative Crisis: Obaseki Draws the Battle Line
The crisis rocking the Edo State House of Assembly and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, maybe a long-drawn one with the state governor, Godwin Obaseki showing signs that he is not in the least war-weary, and the controversial speaker of the embattled House, Frank Okiye spitting fire over the resolution by the House of…
Legislative Coup in Bauchi, Edo
After 20 years of democracy in Nigeria, the era of executive impunity and legislative rascality is evidently not over as minority law makers in Bauchi and Edo Houses of Assembly seize leadership At the Bauchi and Edo State Houses of Assembly, confusion reigns, and the business of law-making is in abeyance. It had been so…
Edo Legislative Drama: We are Vindicated – Idahagbon, convener, Edo Peoples Movement
Henry Idahagbon, convener of Edo People’s Movement, EPM, and former attorney-general and commissioner for justice in the state, reacts to the House of Representatives resolutions on the crisis that has rendered the troubled Edo State House of Assembly comatose. In this interview with Adekunbi Ero, executive editor, he explains the implications of the National Assembly taking…
Violent Protest in Edo as Suspected Fulani Herdsman Rapes, Kills Villager
All hell was let loose Tuesday as angry youths of Ofumwegbe community in Ovia North-east local government area of Edo State reportedly launched a reprisal attack on some Fulani herdsmen grazing cattle in the area following the alleged raping and killing of a female indigene of the town by one of the herdsmen. Ofunmwegbe town…
Stop Blackmailing Oshiomhole, RTEAN President Warns Idahosa, Others
There seems to be no end to the raging war of words between foot soldiers of the feuding Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, and the national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole as a former youth leader of the APC, in the state, Osakpanwa Eriyo this Tuesday lambasted a chieftain of…
Edo APC Crisis: It is Fire for Fire as Obaseki, Oshiomhole Feud Gets Messier
The worsening relationship between Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki and his estranged godfather, Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has degenerated into name-calling and blame game over the crisis that had sharply divided the party into two camps. And as the two political elephants wrestle for the soul of the…
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