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The Edo House of Assembly on Monday passed the state’s 2017 budget proposal of N153.18bn. Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo had on December 19, 2016 presented a budget proposal of N150bn to the Assembly for consideration and passage. The budget…

Says, “I am the petitioner” A witness testifying for the petitioners – People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu – in the ongoing Edo Election Tribunal, Comrade Braimah Gabriel Ohiomah has provided discrepant testimonies from his witness statement and…

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo has sued for more collaboration among the different religious bodies in the state to sustain the peaceful coexistence already being enjoyed in the state.   Obaseki, speaking to newsmen, shortly after hosting religious rulers drawn…

Religious leaders in Edo State have said that they will work together to empower children and reduce the issue of begging in the state. This was as Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State hosted them to breakfast at The Government…

As religious leaders promise to lend their support Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, on Saturday morning, hosted religious leaders at the Government House to discuss the place and role of religion within the social framework of the state. Addressing…

The zonal screening exercise for The Nigerian Army’s Regular Recruit Intake, which was set to hold at the Headquarters 4 Brigade in Benin, has been postponed. The screening exercise was earlier scheduled to take place from January 22 to February…

Not for the first time, a team of lawyers representing the petitioners against the September 2016 election in Edo State – the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu – have been told off by the Chairman of the…

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has inaugurated a six-man Joint Development Committee to implement the Edo Electrifying Initiative for electricity generation, transmission and distribution in the state. This is sequel to the meeting the governor held with the Siemens…

A witness of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu in the on-going hearing of the Edo State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Benin City, Mr. Jonathan Ogie Alohan has confessed to have cobbled together uncertified documents to…

A floundering professor of law, on Thursday, mounted the witness dock at the Edo election tribunal to testify against the credibility of the September 2016 elections. He however succeeded only in making quite a mess of his testimony. Professor Edoba…