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NPFL 26: Bendel Insurance FC Grab Away Point At Bayelsa Utd Bendel Insurance Football Club,has continued to maintain maintain stability and resilience as they on e again proved difficult for opponents to break at home or away since Kennedy Boboye took charge in October last year. On Sunday evening in Yenagoa,the Benin Arsenals fought with everything to ensure a goalless stalemate at the Samson Siasia Stadium, the fortress of Bayelsa Utd in the match day 26 of Nigeria Premier Football League. The Benin Arsenals and Bayelsa United FC also shared the spoils when they met in their first round encounter in 2025. The game ended. 1-1 in Benin  Going into the match day 26 clash,, Bayelsa United FC occupied 15th, position while Bendel Insurance FC held on to 6th position which they still maintained now with 38 points.  Bendel Insurance will be on the road again for their double away clash of the second round of the current season as they travel to Lafia to face title conten...

EDSG Gives Okiaghele Of Three Communities 7 Days Ultimatum To Appear Before Special Security Squad  ... Declares Five Cult Members Wanted For Cult Related Activities  By Editor The Edo State Government (EDSG) has given three Community Youth Leaders popularly known as Okiagheles a seven day ultimatum to appear before the Special Security Squad Code-named "Operation Flush Out Cultist and Kidnappers" over the recent resurgence of Cultism in Benin City. The Okiaghele of Obazagbon Community, Innocent Okunozee a member of Black Axe Confraternity is currently in custody while those expected to turn themselves in include the Okiaghele of Obagie, Ofumwengbe and Ara Communities respectively. Following the recent killings in some parts of Benin, the Special Security Squad led by the Principal Security Officer (PSO) to Edo State Governor carried out a series of raids, leading to arrest of some suspected cultists at Amagba Community in Oredo and Obagie Community in Ikpoba-Okah...

Edo Police Arrest 13 Murder Suspects, 87 Kidnappers  Iduozee Efe Paul  The Edo State Police command has arrested 13 murder suspects, 87 kidnappers, 14 armed robbers, 15 cultists and rescued 30 kidnapped victims in less than two months in the state. The state Commissioner of Police CP, Monday Ogbonika revealed this during the Command's monthly press briefing with journalists in Benin city, Edo State. He said the progress were made possible through partnership with other relevant security agencies, hunters and local vigilante. He asserted that the command also recovered six stolen vehicles, three motorcycles and 39 phones of various make.  Agbonika hinted that the command dealt a major blow to the instruments of violence, noting that a cache of arms and ammunition has been recovered, including: two fabricated AK-47 rifles, six rounds of live ammunition an AK-47 rifle with 30 rounds of live ammunition, 16 rounds of 9mm ammunition, five cut-to-size single barrelle...

 Edo People Give BEDC Two Weeks Ultimatum Over  Power Outage  ... Complaints About Over Billings, Extortion  ....As BEDC Alleges Debt Of N7b By  Localities  An organized Edo People Against  The Oppressive Tendencies of BEDC, has given 14 days ultimatum to the management of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) to improve on its electricity delivery and halt its over billing tendencies on the residents of the state or face mass unrest. Speaking in a World Press conference, the Coordinator of the group, Comrade Emmanuel Ogbidi gave the ultimatum while addressing journalists in Benin. He said Edo State and beyond, several communities have been thrown into utter darkness ranging, between one to six months and in some cases years just because BEDC failed to take responsibility as distribution company to fix their issues.    Ogbidi posited some other communities are compared to buying transformers, poles, and ca...

YDA Protests Against Edo Govt Directive Of painting vehicles Iduozee Efe Paul The Edo State chapter of Yaris Drivers Association, today staged a peaceful protest against the state government's directive of mandatory painting of their vehicles with the state colour code. According to them, adopting the state colour code will hinder them access to areas they hitherto were accessing. The group in their large numbers with placards with different inscriptions such as "Painting Is Not Security, The Code Is The Security", "Yaris Drivers Are Responsible People", "We Are Not Criminals Or Kidnappers", said it is not the solution to rising insecurity in the state. Speaking to Journalists at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Edo State Council secretariat, chairman of the Association, Mr. Paul Evbuomwan said while they are in support of the governor's fight against insecurity, he believes that giving the drivers codes would be better as it wil...

2nd NDGs: Screening Committee Impressed With Young Athletes In Team Edo Camp After a rigorous and thorough screening exercise in the camp of Team Edo on Tuesday evening,the chairman of the Screening Sub-Committee for the Niger Delta Games Mr Braveman Wodi said that he was impressed with the good number of young athletes most of whom were kids in the Camp. The screening committee chairman re-echoed the position of Dunamis Icon Ltd on the enforcement of the rules of the game,insisting on a rigorous, pre-competition screening process across the nine participating states aimed at stamping out age cheat. He stressed the need for total compliance by the participanting states with the rules laid down by the organizers of the regional sports fiesta Dunamis Icon Ltd. " We have been going from state to state screening athletes for the Niger Delta Games. Today,we are in Edo to do the same thing. We had advocacy meeting with the coaches before the screening started. We are doing t...