Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has just given a major boost to state workers by paying their salaries and pensions for December. This happened in the early hours of Monday, December 11, 2023, just as it was announced earlier. The governor and his administration made a pledge to pay a 13th-month salary on Workers…
Deputy Governor of Edo State Philip Shaibu has told Governor Godwin Obaseki that he is not in competition with him. This followed the governor’s decision to pay the hospital bills of the attacked players and officials of Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, side, Sunshine Stars Football Club of Akure. Armed Robbers had attacked a bus…
Operatives from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) were brutally attacked by armed hoodlums in Opuje community, located in the Owan West Local Government Area of Edo State. The hoodlums had blocked all roads leading to the community, aiming to hinder the NDLEA operatives’ access to forest warehouses. These warehouses reportedly contained a significant…
The crisis rocking the Edo State branch of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) seems to have taken a new dimension as the secretary, Mr. Hilary Otsu has vowed to resist any attempt by the state government to use a “Committee” of individuals to carry out the forthcoming registration exercise, as directed by the National Working…
THE number of aspirants jostling for the governorship position in Edo State increased by one yesterday as the spokesman of former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), Prince Kassim Afegbua declared his interest to run for governor of Edo state. Declaring his interest, Afegbua said infrastructural decay, leadership deficiency, amongst others, as presently experienced in…
Some Students of the University of Benin in Edo state, have said that they would have gone to court to compel Edo State deputy governor, Comrade Philip Shaibu to join the governorship contest, if he had caved in to intimidation by Governor Godwin Obaseki and declined running. The students, who trooped out en mass to…
Edo state governor Godwin Obaseki, has made his first official reaction to his deputy’s declaration of interest to run for the office of governor of Edo state in next month governorship election in the state Phillip Shaibu on Monday threw his hat into the ring by declaring his interest to succeed his Principal as governor…
After months of uncertainty, Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu has officially declared to run for the 2024 governorship election in the state. In a pre-recorded speech aired today, Shaibu, who has been the deputy governor since 2016, said he would run for the office of the number one in the state on the platform…
Ahead of the formal declaration of Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu of his governorship ambition on Monday, the Hotel he book for the event has cancelled his booking. The hotel, located in the Government Reserved Area, Benin, is owned by a prominent chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state. According to reports,…
Members of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria in Edo State, on Monday, shut the gates to the Edo State House of Assembly, following the expiration of the ultimatum for the implementation of financial autonomy in legislative houses in the country. The situation, which developed into a protest in front of the Assembly, prevented the…
