Benin City, Nigeria News

BY SIMON EBEGBULEM, BENIN CITY Edo state stood still last Saturday May 12, 2013 for Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state, when his people in Edo North senatorial district, known as the Afemai people conferred a traditional title of Oshiosimua on the governor.

A corporate body, A.I.C limited has instituted a legal action against Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state and the Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice over a N300million unpaid debts arising from the supply of materials for the Benin City Water Supply Project.

EDO State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alleged that Governor Adams Oshiomhole sacked the former Commissioner for Secondary, Technical and Higher Education, Mr.

The wife and daughter of Nigerian Supreme Court Justice Bode Rhodes Vivour were abducted along with their driver, police said.

Elections into the 17 local government councils of the 18 in Edo State were conducted by the Edo State Independent National Electoral Commission , but Abuja based observers who were not accredited to monitor the April 20, 2013 polls are engaged in a war of words with the EDSIEC over the transparency of the elections.

THE leadership of the Action Congress of Nigeria in Edo state, yesterday, challenged the Peoples Democratic Party to disclose the evidence that Governor Adams Oshiomhole begged to join the party or shut up forever.

The second leg of the Golden League sponsored by Solid Works Limited was truncated in Benin City on April 27 by athletes who protested the 'high' standards set for them to achieve before they could be entitled to financial rewards.

Edo State Ministry of Education has commended the Class of '83, Edo College, Benin-City, for supporting the efforts of the Adams Oshiomhole administration in uplifting the standard of education in the state.

THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Edo State Command, yesterday, destroyed 102.71 kilogrammes of cannabis sativa , estimated at over N1 billion.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday, called on President Goodluck Jonathan, to look into the stalled investigation of the May 4, 2012, killing of its Deputy General Secretary and Principal Private Secretary to Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde, claiming the security agencies knew the truth about his death.

THE Depart-ment of the State Security, DSS, yesterday, paraded nine suspected kidnappers and robbers including those who killed one of their staff in Benin City, last year.

By SIMON EBEGBULEM BENIN CITY-FOLLOWING the confusion that has trailed the investigation into the murder of the Principal private Secretary to Governor Adams Oshiomhole, Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde barely one year after his murder, the Executive Director of the African Network for Environment and Economic Justice and bosom friend of the deceased, Rev.

The military Joint Task Force in Borno State, Operation Restore Order, Friday , killed a top commander of the Boko Haram sect, Mohammed Chad, in Maiduguri, the state capital, during a joint special operation with the men of the State Security Services .

By SIMON EBEGBULEM, Benin City GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state yesterday declared that the Local Government Council election recently conducted in Edo state was the best ever organized not only in Edo state but in the South South geo-political zone.

By Ephraim Oseji The security situation is becoming something else, although it is a national problem.

The Supreme Court of Nigeria affirmed a custom known as the Bini Law of Succession in Nigeria.

Azura Power West Africa Ltd., a Nigerian electricity producer, plans to fund at least 70 percent of a $700 million plant in Benin City with debt from local and international markets, Chief Executive Officer David Ladipo said.

Coalition of Registered Political Parties, CRPP, in Edo State and a political group in the state, Edo is in Safe Hands, have urged protesting members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who are aggrieved over the conduct of last Saturday local government elections in the state to go to court rather than take actions that may lead to bloodshed in the ... (more)

By SIMON ELEGBULEM, Benin City ALL is set for the Local Government Council election in the 18 Local Government Councils of Edo state today, as the Edo state police command deploy over five thousand policemen across the 18 Local Government Council of the state.