Edo Magazine(news_info)

Drama As Edo Commissioner of Police Restrict Anti Petrol, Cement Prices Increment Protesters In Edo There was a mid-drama at the early hours of Monday in Benin as officers from the Edo State Police Command  in Benin City,  cordoned off the entrance into the Museum, Ring Road, Benin following a protest by aggrieved civil rights groups in the city. The protesters had converged at the Museum early today to kick off the their protest when the police came and locked them inside as they said they were acting on the order from the commissioner of Police The Civil Right groups who also reside in the state were to protest the hike in fuel and cement prices, as well as the increase in building materials and other commodities. One of the protesters, Osemudiamen Ogbidi, a former SUG President of the University   of Benin , demanded that the government set up a task force within fourteen days or it will mobilize market women, men, builders and every citizen of the state to protest...

POS Operator Who Collected Ransom For Kidnappers, Arrested In Edo Operatives of Anti-Kidnapping and Cyber Crime Unit of Edo Police Command, have nabbed an operator of Point of Sale (POS), accused of assisting armed robbers/kidnappers to collect money from victims’ bank accounts. The suspect, Gadimoh Ofei Bright (29), was arrested on Tuesday, at Igarra, capital of Akoko-Edo local government area of the state, following discrete investigation through technical intelligence on a kidnap case. In the said case, several persons, including one Emmanuel Umuekele were kidnapped and robbed around Ugbowo axis of Benin City. Money was transferred from the victims’ bank accounts as ransom to another bank account, before they were released. The kidnap suspect who owns the bank account is presently cooling off in police custody. According to a statement by the Command‘s spokesman, SP Kontongs Bello, the arrested POS operator who confessed helping robbers to receive money from their victims, said he r...

Oshiomhole Begs Ortom for Out of Court Settlement __I Respect Ortom, I am Sorry For Making Unfounded Allegations Against Him—Oshiomhole __Ortom vs. Oshiomhole: Court to receive out of court settlement report May 14   A Makurdi High Court presided over by Justice Augustine Ityonyiman yesterday adjourned to May 14, 2021, the N10 billion libel suit instituted against a former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, by Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom. Justice Ityonyiman said the court would receive the report of the out-of-court settlement deal between the two parties on the adjourned date. Ortom had dragged Oshiomhole to court over his comments against him at a press conference held on July 27, 2018, where the APC stalwart accused him of having a hand in the death of two Catholic priests and other parishioners at Mbalom community in Gwer East local council of the state. Oshiomhole had also alleged that one of the priests had preach...

  Hon. Evbareke Jenkins Osunde Chairman Oredo Local Government Council And The State Chairman of Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON)    Hon. Evbareke Jenkins Osunde is the Chairman of Oredo local government, Edo State and would be ending his three year tenure on March 4, 2021. He is also the current State Chairman of the Association of Local Government Chairmen of Nigeria (ALGON) . In this interview with  FRANCIS ONOIRIBHOLO , Osunde debunks the insinuations that the State Government occasionally interferes with the Federal allocations to the local government councils in the state. Excerpts. What was your major problem during these three years you have been in office as Oredo Council Chairman?  I will not say Oredo is a problematic Local Government, Oredo Local Government Council has had its challenges and it is not peculiar to the Local Government but one of the peculiar challenges we have had as a Local Government is the issue of teachers’ sala...

Oredo LGA Chairman Commissions Ekae Market Traders celebrate the potential economic opportunities of Ekae Market  The completion of Ekae Market is a promise earnestly fulfilled, Hon. Osunde ‘’Governor Obaseki has uniquely elevated the policy of boosting women entrepreneurship ’’  The Chairman of Oredo Local Government Area, Hon. Evbareke Jenkins Osunde , has commissioned Ekae Market featuring about  80 lock- up and 80 open stalls, an industrial borehole, water taps  and toilets in convenient locations within the market. The facility also has huge surrounding ground for car parks and extended market activities. Traders and women leaders of Edo Market Traders Association were enthusiastic as they celebrated the potential opportunities provided by the commissioning of the Ekae infrastructure for economic transactions. Hon . Osunde remarked during the ceremony that the completion of the market was ‘’an earnest fulfillment of the promise made to the  community regar...

 " You are still under suspension," Ize-Iyamu cautions Oshiomhole Following the statement credited to Oshiomhole yesterday where he was quoted as saying the current revalidation exercise of the party is a joke and unconstitutional, Ize-Iyamu who is now the leader of the APC in Edo state, has cautioned Oshiomhole to speak less as his suspension is yet to be lifted by his ward.  Oshiomhole who is understandably unhappy about the hijack of APC in Edo state by Ize-Iyamu, lambasted the whole exercise and even went ahed to say the exercise will fall in the face of legal scrutiny. "There is nothing in the APC constitution that says a member shall revalidate or renew its membership. Once you registered when you joined the party and you have not decamped, you are a member. So, revalidation is strange to our constitution. “I have only done this because I want peace to reign but in doing this, we have to be careful not to create constitutional breach.”  He noted that between 2015...

Oredo LGA/ EDUCATION  (Picture File from top:  clean and environmentally sanitized premises of Fabiyi Akpata Primary School and Omusi Primary School, handing over of a 3-classroom block and furniture to Uholor Community Primary School by Oredo LGA Chairman, Hon. Evbareke Jenkins Osunde)   ‘’Right from the inception of our administration, we have been committed to the pursuit of an educational policy aimed at giving formidable life foundation to the children in our school system, the secured future of the pupils is our obligatory concern ‘’, Hon. Osunde ‘’….of equal significance is the adherence to the guidance of Governor Obaseki by ensuring that serving teachers and retirees are duly and unfailingly paid their wages and pensions.’’ In fidelity to galvanizing the vision articulated by the Chairman of Oredo Local Government Area, Hon. Evbareke Jenkins Osunde , the Council ensures the cultivation of nurturing environment in schools before the resumption of  every new t...