Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has accused his Edo State counterpart, Governor Godwin Obaseki as a politician who is given to serial betrayal of those who help to advance his political aspiration. Governor Wike made the accusation at the inauguration of the Community Secondary School, Omuanwa in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the State…
Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike on Tuesday appeared before the State High Court in Port Harcourt, to testify as a witness in a Seven Billion Naira (N7B) libel suit against THISDAY Newspaper. Governor Wike, said he was in court to seek justice and clear his name as a person from the malicious publication…
President Muhammadu Buhari said Nigeria has moved a step closer to the nation’s dream of full utilisation of the nation’s abundant gas potentials. The president made this assertion on Tuesday at the commissioning of the Integrated Gas Handling Facility and LPG Processing and Dispensing Plants built and operated by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, an…
Former two-time governor of old Bendel State, Dr Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia, is an elder statesman. Many people have been waiting to hear from him to know his stand on this forth coming election in Edo state. In this Exclusive Interview with Sunday Adebayo, he expresses his belief and assessments of the present Edo state government,…
**Edo People Won’t Vote For Them Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has stated that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is not in existence in the state. The outgoing governor of the state also said candidate of his party in the September 2016 governorship poll, Godwin Obaseki of the All Progressives Congress, APC, will not…
Abdul Oroh has been sacked as the Commissioner for Commerce and Industry by the Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole. Oroh was removed from the cabinet of the Edo State governor on Monday and the announcement made via a statement signed by Oshiomhole’s Chief Press Secretary, Peter Okhiria. According to Okhiria, Oroh was dropped by the…
Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Victor Edoror, has been sacked, Aproko247 has been reliably informed. Our source in Edo State disclosed to us that the Deputy Speaker of the Assembly, Festus Ebea, was also impeached. It was learnt that both members of the hollowed chamber were impeached on Tuesday. It is however…
The trial of former Chairman, Akoko Edo Local Government Area, Edo State, Akerejola Joseph Folorunsho and five others slated to begin on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 before Justice E. A. Edigin of the State High Court, Benin could not go on as planned as the defence is challenging the competence of the court to entertain…
There was demonstration at the Benin airport on Sunday after passengers of Arik Air reportedly learnt that they were lied to by management of the airline. It was gathered that the aggrieved passengers were told there was no fuel to take them to their destination, only to discover that the same plane is to ferry…
Five suspected oil pipeline vandals were apprehended on Saturday in Edo State by officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, with two tankers containing 66,000 litres of crude oil. The hoodlums were arrested by the Civil Defence in Benin City, the state capital, according to the State Commandant of the NSCDC, Chuka…