A former Governor of the defunct Bendel State now (Edo and Delta States) and Minister of Federal Capital Territory at different times, Jeremiah Useni is dead. He passed away on Thursday, January 23, 2025, ahead of his 82nd Birthday billed to February 16, 2025 after a long illness. Gyang Bere, Governor Mutfwang, Plateau State...
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Customs officer killed in Benin-Lagos road crash
A Deputy Superintendent of Nigeria Customs Service, T. A Ashafa has been killed in a road accident, while other unspecified number of persons injured. Ashafa, was travelling from Edo State to Lagos State in the early hours of Thursday when the fatal accident involving the officer occurred on Benin-Lagos Expressway. TheNewspad investigation revealed that the...
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Market fire: Oshiomhole plans Edo North fire station
The Senator representing Edo North Senatorial District, Senator Adams Oshiomhole has plan to establish a ‘well equipped and functional fire station to tackle fire incidents’ in the Constituency, is underway. The tragic incident, coming so soon after the windstorm uprooted Century-old trees that claimed four lives and destroyed the market. He made the...
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Police free ex- AIG wife, kill Kidnappers in Ogun
Suspected kidnappers of Folashade Odumosu, the wife of former Assistant Inspector General of Police, Hakeem Odumosu have been rescued by police operatives after neutralizing the hoodlums in gun battle. Folashade, was taken hostage by armed men at her residence at the entrance of her residence in the Arepo, Owode Local Government Area of...
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Fire guts Edo market months after fatal windstorm
A night fire has razed down popular Jattu Community market in Auchi, Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State, leaving business owners in unimaginable grief. The incident happened barely six months after over 100-year-old trees, succumbed to a windstorm and crushed four traders to death after early heavy downpour at the market. The...
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Edo journalists threaten boycott over DSS attack
Journalists have threatened to boycott engagement and severe ties with the Department of State Security Service (DSS) in an unprecedented move, should the secret police fail to apologize over the unwarranted attack on them at the State Election Petition Tribunal sitting on Monday January 20, 2025. The decision followed the alleged assault of Africa...
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Five travellers killed in Lagos-Ibadan road accident
Five travellers, comprising two female and three male adults have been killed in Lagos-Ibadan road accident, leaving another injured passenger hospitalized. Police said the tragedy struck on January 19, 2025, around 11:30 PM, near the FATGBEMS bus stop on the Lagos Ibadan Expressway. The accident, involving a reckless driver of an unidentified Mercedes Benz...
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Christian leaders round-off prayer with Oba of Benin
Benin City Christian Community leaders have rounded-off their 2025 Universal Week of prayers, with a message of hope and fulfillment. The inter denominational service, an annual ritual, was held on Sunday in Oba of Benin Palace, Benin City, featuring praise worship and intercessory prayers. ‘The promise keeper’, was the 2025 theme for the week...
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Edo LG leadership crisis: Miracle of design or power consolidation?
Osaigbovo Iguobaro Edmund Burke’s metaphor of the Fourth Estate says, ‘if journalists sit atop their watchtower as society’s sentinels, they must keep their eyes unclouded by haste, bias, or error’. This assertion blithes about the hegemony over who controls the leavers of power across the 18 Local Government Councils in Edo State. The leadership...
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Police hunt killers of Ogun prophet in church
Police operatives have launched manhunt on murder of a Prophet in Celestial Church of Christ (CCC) in Idiroko, Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State. It was learnt that suspected assailants invaded and shot dead 54 – year – old Prophet, Yomi Adetula in during Sunday worship at Eagle Parish along Baggage Road, Odo...