Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, Monday ordered the arrest of officials of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) for allegedly removing a transformer bought and installed by members of Ihovbor Community in Uhunmwode Local Government Area of the State. The Governor gave the order while receiving members of Ihovbor Community led by Chief Tony Otakpolor, […]
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Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State Monday explained that he has never called any journalisits to query a news report because he is a “believer of press freedom.” The Governor who stated this when members of Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Edo State Council, paid him a courtesy visit. He pledged […]
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Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, has charged Corps members deployed to the State to join forces in the fight against economic crimes, women and child trafficking and other vices. Obaseki gave the charge on Thursday at the occasion of the swearing-in ceremony of the 2018 batch “C” Corps members held at the National Youth […]
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The Edo State Government has secured a licence from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), to generate and use electricity in its offices as well as in the proposed Benin Industrial Park (BIP). The State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, who made the announcement weekend, at the commissioning of the 1X60MVA, 132/33KV Power Transformer at the […]
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Teachers of public schools in Edo State under the aiges of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), have condemned the State Government’s education policy of keeping pupils in public schools beyond 1.45 pm closing hour. Also condemned by the teachers is the abolition of leisure/sporting activities due to over-crowding of learning and curriculum contents. The […]
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The dust raised by the constitution of the Edo State Board of Oil and Gas Producing Areas Development Commission (EDOSOPADEC), by the State Government, is causing more ripples, as communities in Ugu ward in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of the State have decried alleged malicious neglect in the composition. The communities, in a petition they […]
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Jethro Ibileke/Benin A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Edo State, Mr. Ken Ihensekhien, has denied having hands in the attack by some angry youths on Governor Godwin Obaseki last Tuesday, during which he (Obaseki) was pelted with serchets of water. Recall that Governor Obaseki narrowly escaped an attack by some unidentified youths […]
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Jethro Ibileke/Benin Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has charged members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) deployed to the State, to be positive agents of change by shunning all forms of vices that can impede national development. Obaseki gave the charge on Monday at the occasion of the official closing ceremony of the 2018 […]
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The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has urged the state government workers to embrace the federal government housing scheme to enable them become homeowners after retirement. Obaseki gave the advice on Friday in Benin during a sensitisation programme on the federal housing mortgage scheme for public sector workers in the state, organised by the Nigeria Labour […]
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Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has closed the state-owned College of Agriculture, Iguoriakhi, in Ovia North-East local government area, and sacked the entire workforce in the process. The college of Agriculture was established by the civilian administration of late Prof. Ambrose Ali in 1981, but was later closed by the military administrators, until it […]
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