Archive: Edo State

📁 Crime Watch

Six Killed In Edo Bank Robbery, Police Recover IEDs

At least six persons including a motorcyclist and two bank customers have been reportedly killed in a bank robbery attack at Igarra, Akoko-Edo Local Government

📅 November 4, 2015 @ 14:32:06 Africa/Lagos

📁 GeneralEducation

Edo Plans Teacher Posting Reforms To Promote Effectiveness

The government of Edo State has concluded plans to carry out reforms on the recruitment, deployment, promotion and posting of teachers in the state to ensure fa

📅 October 28, 2015 @ 23:00:42 Africa/Lagos

📁 Crime Watch

Employment Scam: Man Dupes 5 People Of N1.1m

The police in Benin city, the capital of Edo State, has arraigned one Olusanmi Kolawole before an Egor Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly defrauding five job see

📅 October 26, 2015 @ 18:53:31 Africa/Lagos

📁 General

I Want To Draw Blood With My New Book — Soyinka

Playwright and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has stated he wants to 'draw blood' with his latest book, InterInventions. Speaking on Saturday at the June 1

📅 October 25, 2015 @ 00:38:03 Africa/Lagos

📁 Politics

Complete Ongoing Projects, Shun New Ones, Fashola Tells Oshiomhole

The past immediate governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, has advised Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, to shun the temptation of initiating new develo

📅 October 14, 2015 @ 03:13:11 Africa/Lagos

📁 Crime Watch

Controversy As Soldiers Shoot Man In Benin

A man that was allegedly brutalised and shot on the leg by some soldiers in Benin, the Edo State capital, has raised the alarm over what he called the inhuman t

📅 October 13, 2015 @ 03:51:08 Africa/Lagos

📁 Politics

‎I Didn't Accuse PENCOM Of Diverting N3.5tn – Oshiomhole

The governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, today denied accusing the National Pension Commission (PENCOM) of diverting the sum N3.5tn pension fund. Governor O

📅 October 8, 2015 @ 21:32:01 Africa/Lagos

📁 Broad

Residents Picket Benin Disco Over Poor Power Supply

Residents of Aerodrome Close, Egbebuya and Trade Fair communities, in the Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, protested over what they described as epilep

📅 October 8, 2015 @ 15:54:22 Africa/Lagos

📁 Broad

NULGE Lauds Suspension Of Edo Council Chairmen

The National Union of Local Government Employees in Edo State has ‎applauded the suspension of four local government chairmen by Governor Adams Oshiomhole, over

📅 October 7, 2015 @ 14:27:27 Africa/Lagos

📁 Crime Watch

Kidnappers Kill University Don After Receiving Ransom

A Professor of Agricultural Economics and Extension in the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma in Edo State, Prof. Paul Erie, who was abducted on June 16, this year

📅 October 3, 2015 @ 01:42:03 Africa/Lagos