Kidnappers of the abducted Deputy Superintendent of Police, Godwin Oshiogbuwe, have reportedly killed him in the forest. Oshiogbuwe was abducted on Wednesday by unknown gunmen at Ubiaja, Esan South East local government area of the State. Police sources had it that his body was found in a forest on Ubiaja-Ewohimi-Agbor road by a police tactical […]
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The Presidential Committee on Prisons Reform and Decongestion has secured the release of a total of 84 prisons inmates from the Edo State Command of the Nigerian Prisons Service. They were advised to re-enter the free society with apologies to their parents and other loved ones for their misconducts and to become useful citizens to […]
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Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has charged state governments in the South-south region to make judicious use of resources to drive socio-economic development. The Governor who made the submission during a visit of executives of the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND), lamented that there was little to show that the […]
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Gunmen have attacked the divisional police command at Afuze, headquarters of the Owan-East local government area of Edo, killing the divisional police officer (DPO) and three other officers on duty. The hoodlums also attacked the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the town, and destroyed electoral materials and burning down a police […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has described the Benin Kingdom as a role model for other ethnic kingdoms and societies to follow. President Buhari said this on Saturday in Benin, the Edo State capital, on the occasion of the second coronation anniversary of the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II and the launch of a book on […]
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Jethro Ibileke/Benin The Proprietress of God’s Orphanage Home, in Benin, Edo State, Mrs. Kehinde Blessing Imarhiagbe, has been paraded by the police, for complicity in the alleged theft of a four-year-old-baby girl. The victim was said to have been stolen by a ma somewhere in Lagos and taken to the suspect’s orphanage located along Siluko […]
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Jethro Ibileke/Benin A 23-years-old mother of two, Mrs. Miracle Omovuokpor, has surrendered herself to the police in Edo State, after selling her six-months-old baby, for N200, 000. It was gathered that the suspect sold the baby, who’s name was given as Greatness, to an orphanage in Onitsha, Anambra State, for N200,000, and used part of […]
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Unidentified hoodlums on Wednesday killed a 70-year-old woman, Helen Udugbezi, at her residence in Benin, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. NAN also reports that the hoodlums were alleged to have used a big stone to kill the deceased. The housemaid of the deceased, Anna Amos, who was at home when the incident occurred, alleged […]
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Some returnees from Edo State on Tuesday staged a protest over what they described as a “systematic delay” in the payment of their monthly stipends. It was alleged that the state Task Force against Human Trafficking, had breach the terms they had, the placard-carrying returnees therefore called for the dissolution of the task force. Some […]
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Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, on Sunday banned grazing in two communities attacked by suspected herdsmen in the state. The affected communities include Odighi and Odiguete, in the Ovia North-East Local Government Area of the state. Obaseki also ordered the arrest of any erring herdsman during the period of the ban, which he said […]
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