All is now set for the concessioning of the Delta State-owned Asaba International Airport. Speaking this Wednesday after he was sworn in at the Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba, for a second term in office as governor of the state, Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa said towards this end, a Transaction Adviser was engaged by the State Government…
Obaseki Gets Seven Days to Publish Details of Government Contracts, Beneficiaries
A Benin-based activist and Chairman, One Love Foundation, Patrick Eholor, has given the state governor, Godwin Obaseki seven days ultimatum to give full details of the various contracts he had awarded so far as governor of the state. This challenge is coming on the heels of a press conference addressed by the Association of Indigenous…
Outrage in Edo Over Electricity Theft Bill
Civil society groups in Edo State on Thursday marched to the state House of Assembly to protest against a bill presently before the House which if passed into law would criminalize electricity theft. The activists, who were all dressed in black and brandished placards with various inscriptions, expressed their anger against the lawmakers by pelting the…
Local Contractors Defend Obaseki, Say We Are Not Foreigners
Against the backdrop of criticisms that the administration of incumbent Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki dispenses patronage to contractors from outside the state, particularly Lagos and Abuja, the government has attempted to put a lie to the claim. In what seemed a hurriedly arranged “world” press conference ostensibly at the instance of the state government at…
Threat to Life: Edo law-maker defends allegation against Obaseki
The lawmaker representing Oredo East Constituency in the Edo State House of Assembly, Chris Okaeben, has defended his allegation of threat to his life made yesterday against the governor, Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki who he also accused of playing politics of gossips. Okaeben at a press conference, this Thursday, upbraided the governor for his perceived act…
Why Obaseki Avoids Oshiomhole
Edo State Governor, Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki yesterday set tongues wagging over the much peddled frosty relationship between him and his predecessor in office, Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole as he failed to grace the epochal inaugural Founders’ Day of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH, and the launch of an endowment fund. The event which attracted…
Four killed in Fresh Edo cult war
The spate of cult-related killings in Edo State continued Friday with four persons reportedly hacked to death at Afokeplla in Etsako East Local Government Area of the state in a suspected reprisal attack by a rival cult group. Sources in the area hinted the magazine that the ugly incident had resulted in the burning down…
Victory for Erhue/Omo-Agege’s Delta APC
The Court of Appeal sitting in Benin, on Friday upturned the March 18, 2019 judgment of the Asaba Federal High Court which declared Cyril Ogodo-led faction of the Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC as the authentic executives of the party. The appellate court instead affirmed the Prophet Jones Erue-led State Working…
Sex for Marks: Ambrose Alli University VC in Quandary
Between a rock and a hard place; this seems to aptly describe the present predicament of the vice-chancellor of Ambrose Alli University, AAU, Ekpoma, Edo State, Ignatius Akhakhia Onimawo, a professor of human nutrition, (nutritional biochemistry) as the crisis rocking the university over an allegation of sex-for-marks leveled against the institution’s chairman of the Academic…
Sex for Marks: How the Vice-Chancellor Tried to Compromise Me – Igbafen
In the last few weeks, Edo State-owned Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, had been in the news, but not for something to cheer. The institution is at loggerheads with its lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, following the suspension of its local chapter chairman, Monday Igbafen, associate professor, department of…
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