Edo state

Edo Court clears hurdles for Obaseki to contest PDP primary

A reprieve came the way of Gov. Godwin Obaseki on Tuesday as an Edo State High Court gave him the green light to...

PDP gets ex-parte order from conducting Edo primaries on June 25

Ill-fortune appears to have dogged the reelection bid of Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo State following a ruling of a Federal High Court...

Obaseki’s defection notwithstanding, APC ‘ll take Edo, says Gov. Bello

        In spite of the defection of Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo State from the APC, Kogi Gov. Yahaya Bello...

Ize-Iyamu coasts to victory, emerges APC flagbearer in Sept. 19 guber polls

    Within hours, erstwhile 2016 PDP governorship candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, emerged the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the September 19...

BUA Group to Dangote: Stop twisting facts, disparaging the courts

          BUA Group has reacted to the Dangote Group’s claim that it owned the mining sites in Obu, Okpella in...

BREAKING — Obaseki: Chief of Staff presides over meeting with APC NWC in Aso Rock

    Following Gov. Godwin Obaseki’s disqualification crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) both in Edo State and the party’s headquarters in Abuja,...

Why we disqualified Obaseki – APC Screening Committee 

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) Screening Committee has given reasons for the disqualification of the incumbent Governor of Edo State, Mr...

Dare-devil youths gang-raped undergraduate, snuffed out inside COVID-19 lockdown church 

      Some hell-on-wheels youths desecrated the House of God like their master, the Devil, and gang-raped a 22-year-old University of Benin female...

Ize-Iyamu emerges Edo factional APC consensus governorship, picks form at National Secretariat

    A faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced a former PDP governorship candidate in Edo State, Mr Osagie Ize-Iyamu,...

Edo 2020: Odigie-Oyegun’s divisive agenda.

  By Tony Erha “An elderly man, who blames the younger ones of leading others by bad examples, says so not simply because...

Afenmai stakeholders condemn harassment of Akerele, illegal search of residence

  A group of Afenmai stakeholders has condemned the harassment of former Chief of Staff to Edo State Governor, Comrade Taiwo Akerele. The...

Edo State: Welcome to the Politics of 2020

By Osakue Aiyevbekpen As we start the year 2020 today (January 1), I consider it auspicious to make few remarks on only one...

Alleged $2m Laundering: Interpol Arrest Edo Commissioner in France

It appears there is no more hiding place for money launderers globally as another Nigerian political office holder, the Edo State Commissioner for...

Oshiomhole lacks legitimacy, temperament, moral authority to lead, as Edo APC call for his resignation

  The Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has stated that the party’s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, lacked legitimacy, temperament...

Police reject requests for APC rally in Edo state

  The Inspector General of Police, Muhammed Adamu, has directed the suspension of All Progressive Congress (APC), rally scheduled for Benin, Friday to...

2020 governorship election: APC not losing Edo state, Oshiomhole assures

  The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has assured that the APC was not at risk of...