Tag: Benin City
I’ve slept with several dogs, bitten by two – Teenage boy
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Osagiator Ighodaro, the 19-year old boy who was arrested for sleeping with a dog at Iguosa village, a…
Teenagers Arrested For Cultism In Benin
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Nine teenagers were among 15 persons arrested by the Edo State Police Command for practicing cultism in the…
Teenager caught sleeping with dog in Benin
By Jethro Ibileke/Benin A 19-year old boy (name withheld), was Tuesday arrested at Iguosa, a suburb community in Benin City,…
Mortuary staff charged with stealing from the dead
Jethro Ibileke/Benin The Nigerian police in Benin City have arraigned two mortuary workers for allegedly stealing jewelries placed in the…
I wish you safe journey, Oshiomhole tells defectors
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State says he will not be intimidated to surrender the resources of…
Ritualist arrested with human parts, N4m
Jethro Ibileke/Benin A suspected ritual killer who specialises in selling human parts has been arrested by security operatives in Benin…
Oshiomhole model for good governance, says Gowon
Former Nigerian Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon has described the administrative style of Governor Adams Oshiomhole as a model…
Omoruyi laid to rest in Benin
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Former Director-General of the defunct Nigerian Centre for Democratic Studies (CDS), Prof. Omo Omoruyi was Friday laid to…
Festus Iyayi’s body moved to Benin
The remains of former ASUU president, Prof. Festus Iyayi, who died in an auto crash on Lokoja-Abuja road, were on…
Tinubu, Buhari, Masari storm Edo for Oshiomhole, APC launch
Top chieftains of the All Progressives Party (APC) including General Muhammadu Buhari, Chief Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Chief Bisi Akande, Alhaji…
Oshiomhole commissions four roads in Benin
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of the southern Nigerian state of Edo has commissioned four roads completed by his administration in the…
Female teenager found dead in hotel room
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin An 18-year-old girl, Chinyere Onorfue, was found in a hotel room in Benin City, capital of Edo state,…
Torrential rains create havoc in Benin, Ibadan
Several major roads and streets of Benin City, capital of Edo state in southern Nigeria were Monday flooded following a…
Kidnapped Lebanese released
A Lebanese national kidnapped by gunmen more than two weeks ago in Benin City, capital of Edo state in southern…
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…
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,…
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…
Fire Destroys Certificates In Edo Ministry Of Education
Properties worth millions of naira were destroyed Wednesday morning during a fire outbreak that gutted the building of the Edo…
Spain smashes Nigerians’ voodoo prostitution ring
. The ladies lured into prostitution are from Benin City Spanish police said Sunday they had broken up a ring…
51 Accident Victims Buried In Benin
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin A mass burial was Saturday conducted in Benin City for the 51 victims of the multiple accident that…
Oshiomhole: How APC can succeed
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Nigeria’s mid-western state of Edo has said that the new mega party, All Progressives…
2 robbery suspects freed after 7 years, waiting for justice
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Two suspected armed robbers, Micheal Igbinosun and Esther Iyekekpolor, held in prison custody for seven years while awaiting…
Contrite Nigerian Don Recants Claims on HIV/AIDS
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin The controversy trailing the alleged discovery of a herbal medicine capable of curing the dreaded HIV/AIDS by Nigerian…
Woman Returns Stolen Kids
A middle-aged woman, Eloho Igwe who allegedly stole two young children last week in Benin City, has surrendered herself to…
Woman returns stolen kids to police
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin A Nigerian middle aged woman, Eloho Igwe who allegedly stole two children last week in Benin City, Edo…
Clash Over Property Tax Law In Benin
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin There was commotion at the ever busy Kings Square in Benin, capital of Nigeria’s Edo state Monday afternoon,…
8 year-old Amarachi wins Nigeria’s Got Talent show
Seun Bisuga Amarachi Nyanne was nothing short of stunning. She wowed the crowd everytime she was on stage and when…
Teachers Attacked For Flogging Oba’s Grand Daughter
There was tension at the Federal Government Girls’ Secondary School in Benin City, Edo State, southsouth Nigeria when teachers of…
Oyerinde: Ugolor Wants SSS Suspects Prosecuted
Environmental rights activist, Rev. David Ugolor, has challenged the Nigerian Police to charge to court the six persons paraded by…