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Edo 2034: Obaseki Locks The Office Of Shaibu’s In Govt House Iduozee Efe Paul, Benin   The political battle between Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki and his Deputy, Comrade Philip Shaibu, on Monday 18, September 2023, took another twist as the deputy governor was prevented from entry the State Government House apparently on the order of Obaseki. It was garhered that the gate to the former office of the deputy governor located in the Government House and the main entrance leading to the storey building was locked with chains and heavy padlocks. Philph Shaibu and his aides, whom it was gathered waited for about an hour without success to access the facility despite frantic effort made by him ( deputy governor) to reach the governor on phone failed left the premises unintended to. Close sources revealed that Shaibu had some discussions with the state commissioner of police and the Director of State Security Services, DSS alerting them of how he was locked out...

Edo LG: Ogbaloi Expresses Sadness Over The Conduct Of  Council Poll ...Calls On EDSIEC To Withdraw Certificate Of Returns Given To PDP Iduozee Efe Paul, Benin Edo State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) has expressed great sadness and rejected the outcome of the local government elections, held on the 2nd of September, 2023, across the 18 local government areas of the state The party equally called on the Edo State Independent Electoral Commission (EDSIEC) to withdraw the Certificate of Returns issued to all the 18 candidates of Peoples Democratic Party PDP, after the polls that was marred with Violences and shooting. The State Chairman of the party, Comrade Kelly Ogbaloi made the statement during a protest to the Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, (NUJ), Edo State Council in Benin City, Edo state. The protesters who are faithful members and loyalists of labour party in the state, who turned out in their numbers carried placards with different inscriptions ...

NBA, NUJ Appeal To Security Agencies To Rescue Joshua Anebuokhae Unhurt Iduozee Efe Paul, Benin Iduozee Efe Paul Following the recently kidnapped of an NBA member in the State, a joint Committee of the Nigeria Union Of Journalists Edo State Council (NUJ) and the Nigeria Bar Association(NBA), Benin Branch, have appealed to the various security operatives in the state to swing into  action and get the Lawyer rescue. The said identified victim, named Joshua Oseluanamen Anebuokhae was said to have been abducted by his host, on September 15, 2023, along Asaba Road.  As a result of the bad news, which forced a joint statement released and made available to the press on Monday, in Benin City, by the Chairman, of the NUJ Committee on Legal matters, Comrade Eben Enasco, and Festus Osagie, Usiobaifo, who also doubles as the Publicity Secretary of the NBA Benin Branch, solicited a quick intervention of the state security operatives to set the abducted lawyer free from the hos...

Tension In Auchi As Hoodlums Kill  One Person In Ekhei Iduozee Efe Paul, Benin There was tension and worry as a young man has been shot dead by hoodlums, in Chairman Shaibu Street, off Ekhei Girls Road, Auchi, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State. The incidence is said to have happened at about 11pm according to a source who reported that 2 shots were heard at the time. It is unclear that who the gunmen are and what is their motive, but the Police, Vigilante who were called to the scene promised to get to the root of the matter with a view to getting justice for the dead. Source reports that family of the dead have since taken the remains of son to Ivbiaro where he hailed from -for burial according to Islamic rites, according to asbnews.net

Trafficking: NDLEA Intercepts 5 Teenage Pregnant Girls  Iduozee Efe Paul, Benin The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives on Wednesday intercepted five pregnant teenage girls suspected to be victims of child trafficking used as baby factory. This was stated in a statement issued on Sunday by the NDLEA Director of Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi. According to him, they were picked up while being relocated from their hideout in the Naze area of Owerri to Ikenegbu. The NDLEA spokesperson explained that the victims in their statements claimed they didn’t know the men who impregnated them. However, he noted that the Imo State Command of the Agency has since been directed to hand them over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, for further investigations.   Babafemi similarly stated that NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigations attached to some courier companies also i...

Godwin Emefiele’s Driver, 19 Apex Bank Officials Arrested In CBN Investigation Iduozee Efe Paul, Benin There are  20 persons links to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and its immediate past governor, Godwin Emefiele, have so far been questioned by the special investigators appointed by President Bola Tinubu to investigate the apex bank, The Nation can now confirm. Those interrogated were the four deputy governors of the apex bank, some directors and some drivers including Emefiele’s, sources disclosed. Commenting, one of the sources, the drivers were interviewed because “they were the ones who carried the big men around.” The sources stated: “Many directors, especially the ones directly under the deputy governors, were interviewed. “They have also invited officials of the Nigeria Security Printing and Minting Company (NSPMC) and those in charge of all those intervention programmes were also invited.” Some officials of NIRSAL Microfinance Bank (NMFB), Nigeria Inter-Bank...

Five Die In Lagos-Ibadan  Accident Iduozee Paul, Benin Wonder shall not end as five people were confirmed dead on Sunday while 12 others sustained varying degrees of injuries in an accident near the Foursquare Camp on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Mrs Florence Okpe, the Public Education Officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun, confirmed the development in an interview with newsmen in Abeokuta. Okpe said that the accident involved a DAF truck marked, KMC 810 ZB, a Toyota bus marked, TMA-244b XA and a Mitsubishi pickup van with no registration number. The FRSC spokeswoman said that the accident occured at about 6:15 a.m. and was caused by excessive speeding, tyre blowout and loss of control on the part of the driver of the truck. She staed that due to the tyre blowout and loss of control, the truck fell and blocked the road, noting that both the bus and the pickup van rammed into the fallen truck. Okpe disclosed that 21 people were involved in the multiple ...