Tag: Benin City
Voters Registration: Edo monarch alleges plot to disenfranchise Benin
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Ahead of the commencement of voter’s registration exercise and distribution of voters’ permanent cards in Edo state later…
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…