Category: News
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The Federal High Court sitting in Benin City has ordered the publication of a public summons compelling Jessica Iguodala Oghomwen to appear before it on or before March 12, 2026, to answer to charges bordering on alleged money laundering, operating a financial institution without licence, and aiding the suicide of Lilian Omokhuale, daughter of Omoruyi…
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Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, has taken his administration’s anti-cultism campaign to secondary secondary schools in Edo South senatorial. The campaign included distribution of anti-cultism materials, sensitisation talks and direct interaction with the students. Addressing students at the Edo Boys High School and the Ihogbe College, Governor Okpebholo, who spoke through his Principal Security Officer,…
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There was pandemonium in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State as kidnappers stormed the area and abducted no fewer than five persons, including a police officer. Edocelebrities gathered that abductions have become a daily routine in the Local Government Council to a point that the council authority and the traditional rulers imposed a curfew…
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The Federal Government has directed the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control to suspend all enforcement actions relating to the proposed ban on sachet alcohol and 200ml PET bottle alcoholic products. The government also warned the agency to immediately stop sealing factories and warehouses over the issue. The directive was contained in…
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), in a joint operation with the Nigerian Army, on Tuesday, arrested five suspects and recovered 11,297 capsules of tramadol in Benin City The Edo State Commander of the NDLEA Mitchell Ofoyeju, told journalists in Benin City that the capsules were recovered from a patent medicine shop and a…
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The Team Edo camp has officially opened for athletes to fine tune their preparations ahead of the Niger Delta Games to hold between February 20th and February 27th . Executive Chairman of the Edo State Sports Commission, Hon. Amadin Desmond Enabulele, who declared the Team Edo camp opened, inspected key sporting facilities to be used during the…
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Reports circulating on social media from Voice of Warri, a local media and gossip outlet based in Nigeria confirms the death of a woman identified as Madam Rita in Udu, Delta State, under controversial circumstances. According to the reports, Madam Rita confessed to being involved in a long-running extramarital affair with her husband’s sales boy.…
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The family of late Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a 22-year-old Microbiology undergraduate of the University of Benin, has lamented the delay in securing justice for their daughter, nearly six years after she was raped and murdered inside a church in Benin. Omozuwa was allegedly attacked on May 27, 2020, when she went to the Redeemed Christian…
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Residents of Oke-Oroma community, Benin City, Edo State, are in a frenzy mood, following the resolution of a lingering land dispute, as the state government commenced the issuance of allocation letters to eligible property owners, paving the way for the return of 2,950 plots of land. NDV findings reveal that the move brings to close…
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A dispatch rider employed by Dibecs Industry Limited in Okpella, Edo State, has allegedly staged his own abduction after losing the company’s N1.3 million to gambling. The rider, identified as David Ekes, was said to have lost the money through a visual sports betting platform before travelling to Abuja, where he sold his mobile…