Tag: Edo State
Benin Airport Closure: FAAN MD Visits Oshiomhole, apologises
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Authorities of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) have apologized to the Edo State Government and air…
Federal ministries, PHCN owe N2b in PAYE taxes
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Chairman of Edo Board of Internal Revenue, BIR, Chief Oseni Elamah, freed by the police, after being detained…
Deeper Life Pastor Defiles 2 Under-aged Girls
A pastor with Deeper Christian Life Bible Church, Abudu, in Orhiomnwon Local Government Area of Edo State, southsouth Nigeria, Eze…
Man kills wife over breastfeeding of twins
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin A middle aged Nigerian, Endurance Enadeba, has killed his wife in Benin, over an argument on breastfeeding of…
Israeli abducted in Nigeria, military guard shot
The Nigerian Police in Edo state on Monday said an Israeli working with Setraco Construction Company has been abducted by…
Woman hacked to death by her children
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin The sleepy town of Lampese, a border town between Kogi and Edo states, was thrown into confusion last…
Oshiomhole debunks minister’s claim on road project
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Nigeria’s Edo state has presented to members of the Federal House of Representatives Committee…
Kidnappers of The Rhodes-Vivours arrested
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Three members of a gang that allegedly kidnapped the wife, daughter and driver of a Judge of the…
Commercial motor-cyclists sue Gov. Oshiomhole
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Nigerian Operators of Commercial motorcycles,popularly known as ‘Okada riders’, have dragged Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State to…
The Furniture maker saved from hanging
On Tuesday, Thankgod Ebhos was dragged to the gallows in Nigeria’s Benin Prison. He was forced to watch as four…
NDLEA Arrests 194 Suspected Drug Offenders
The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested 194 drug suspects and confiscated 23.6 kilogrammes of cannabis and other…
Another Deathrow Inmate Faces Firing Squad
A prison inmate on deathrow in Benin City, capital of Edo State, southsouth Nigeria, ThankGod Ebhos, will any moment from…
Ex-policeman, 82, killed in land dispute
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin The Nigerian police in Benin City, are working hard to recover the corpse of a retired police Inspector,…
Okada Ban: Bicycles To The Rescue In Benin
Following the ban on the use of motorcycles and tricycles both for private and commercial purposes in Benin City metropolis…
No Nation Grows On Importation, Says Oshiomhole
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, southsouth Nigeria, has said that no country desirous of making economic progress relies on…
Mass Protest In Benin Over Motorcycle Ban
Thousands of operators of commercial motorcycles, popularly called Okada, took to the streets of Benin City, capital of Edo State…
Edo State imposes partial ban of motorcyles
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin The use of motorcycle as means of transportation has been outlawed in three Local Government Areas of Edo…
Fred Ajudua Sent To Jail
A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja Tuesday ordered that notorious fraudster Fred Ajudua be remanded in Kirikiri Prisons over…
Police Exhume Slain UNIBEN Student For Post-Mortem
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Following public outcry and demand by family members of Ibrahim Momoh, the final year Laboratory Science student of…
Police Kill Final Year Varsity Student, Bury Corpse
The police in Benin, the Edo State capital, southsouth Nigeria, have killed Momodu Ibrahim, a 22-year old 500 level student…
Houses used by kidnappers to be demolished
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Any building used by criminals to harbour kidnap victims in Edo State will now be demolished. This was…
Man To Die By Hanging For Murder
An Abudu High Court, Edo State, southsouth Nigeria has sentenced a middle aged man, Sunday Ilawe, to death by hanging…
Oshiomhole Sacks Commissioner
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State southsouth Nigeria, has approved the removal of the state Commissioner for the Ministry of…
Nigeria’s Election Monitors demanded money in Edo State
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin An official of the Edo State Independent Electoral Commission, EDSIEC, has described the assessment of some observers of…
East Africans sweep Nigerian marathon
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin East African athletes have again confirmed their dominance of long distance race in the continent, as Kenya’s Moses…
ACN urges PDP not to distract Gov. Oshiomhole
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has slammed the PDP for seeking to disparage and distract Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of…
Oshiomhole Warns Igbinedion on ‘elderly rascality’
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Governor of Edo state, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, Monday sounded a stern warning to 79 year old Chief Gabriel…
ACN slams PDP over council polls
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin The leadership of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Edo State Monday slammed the state chapter of…
ACN sweeps council polls
Nigeria’s Edo State Independent Electoral Commission (EDSIEC) on Sunday announced results of Saturday’s council polls in seven of the 14…
Professor Slumps, Dies In Office
Ambrose Alli University in Ekpoma, Edo State, was thrown into mourning Thursday, after Professor Solomon Momoh of the Institute of…