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The 2025/26 Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) Premiership season commenced on Wednesday, November 26, 2025, with an action-packed Matchday One that produced goals, late drama, and early statements across nine centres nationwide. The curtain-raiser at the Samson Siasia Stadium in Yenagoa lived up to its billing as defending champions Bayelsa Queens claimed a dramatic…
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CONSTRUCTION workers working on the Auchi-Igarra-Ibillo Road in Akoko-Edo Local Government of Edo State have reportedly escaped kidnap. Meanwhile, the state government, on Friday, denied allegation that a police officer attached to the Edo State Government House was involved in the unlawful transfer of firearms intercepted in Kogi State. On the kidnap attempt, the attack…
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The Coalition for Good Governance and Economic Justice in Africa has lauded Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, for his firm and transparent handling of the controversy surrounding a purported revocation of Presco Plc’s Statutory Right of Occupancy. In a statement issued yesterday, the group commended the governor for swiftly distancing his administration from the…
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‘Presco Plc wishes to inform all stakeholders that it is aware of the Vanguard newspaper publication of 26 November 2025, which claimed that the Edo State Government has revoked Presco Plc’s Certificate of Occupancy for the Ologbo Estate. The Edo State Government (the Government) has issued an official disclaimer published in the Vanguard newspaper and…
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Edo State Police Command has assured residents that it is working tirelessly to secure the release of a kidnapped couple whose distress videos have been circulating on social media. The victims, reported to be from Aviele in Etsako West Local Government Area, were shown in multiple videos pleading for public assistance after their abductors allegedly…
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Governor Monday Okpebholo has vowed to resign from office if President Bola Tinubu does not secure 3.5 million votes in Edo in the 2027 presidential election. The governor made the declaration during an interview aired on TVC, insisting that the ruling All Progressives Congress is fully prepared to secure an overwhelming victory for Mr Tinubu…
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Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested seven suspected cultists in a hospital located in Uromi, the administrative headquarters of Esan North-East Local Government Area of the State. The Public Relations Officer of the Command, Moses Yamu, disclosed this on Thursday in a statement made available to newsmen in Benin City. Yamu said…
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The Edo State Police Command has arrested two females in possession of an automatic pump-action shotgun with five live cartridges. DAILY POST reports that the spokesperson of the Command, Moses Yamu, stated this in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday in Benin City. Yamu said the automatic pump-action shotgun (Breach No. 0230), along…
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Managing Director of the Edo State Geographic Information Service (EDOGIS), Dr. Tony Ikpasajah, has been sacked by the state governor, Monday Okpebholo. Ikpasajah was reportedly sacked over issues relating to the revocation of a 13, 545 hectares of land belonging to Presco Plc in Ologbo, Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of the state. Government sources said…
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Operatives of the Edo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested two suspects in possession of cannabis sativa weighing 1,046 kilograms. The NDLEA Commander in the state, Dr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, disclosed this on Thursday in a statement made available to newsmen in Benin City. Ofoyeju said the suspects, identified as…