From Osaigbovo Iguobaro Public disorder fuelled by lawlessness became a partial account of aberrant behaviour that led to the indefinite suspension of Kelly Okungbowa better known as ‘Ebo stone’-led Edo State Public Safety Response Team by Governor Monday Okpebholo on Friday March 14th 2025. This development turned instant social media rave, after the...
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CiSHAN takes Tinubu to task on HIV funding
Civil Society for HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, CiSHAN, has tasked President Bola Tinubu on domestic resource mobilization to bridge funding gaps for HIV/Aids and mitigate the recent United States government’s reviewing its foreign aid on HIV treatment in Nigeria and 54 other Counties. The call followed President Donald Trump recent review of its foreign...
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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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Making communal interventions against GBV count
From Osaigbovo Iguobaro A glimmer of hope flickered to life during a 2-Day training Workshop for Community structures aimed at tackling Sexual and Gender-Based Violence. These vices pose a significant threat to the well-being and potential of citizens across Edo State, including Ikpoba-Okha, Ovia North East and Uhunmwode Local Government Areas, selected at the event...
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Awakening the giant in University of Benin
By Osaigbovo Iguobaro Being a Vice Chancellor in a Nigerian University is not an easy task, especially for ‘endemically lazy academics’ when funding and budgets are under strain. Getting a bigger pie to fix deplorable infrastructure and solving other educational crises in addition to meeting up with other financial obligations in a Nigerian public University...
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Glo outlet berts open at Iyana Ipaja amid fun
Globacom telecommunication company, has opened another customer service outlet in Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos State, amid funfair. Speaking at the ceremony, the Chairman, Alimosho Local Government, Jelili Suleiman Adewale, assured the company of quality patronage by the Community on Friday. Adewale, who was the special guest at the commissioning of the Gloworld shop, commended...
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CCTV captures officers stealing phone in Lagos
A Close Circuit Camera (CCTV) footage has uncovered how two security officers attached to the Lagos State Task Force stole mobile phone during a recent raid in Gowon Estate in the State. Spokesman for the taskforce, Gbadeyan Abdulraheem stated that the officers misconduct was revealed by the chairman of the Lagos State Taskforce, CSP Adetayo...
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Edo e-governance platform under security threat
The Edo State government has alleged that a potential data security threat as the reason for setting aside Edo State e-governance platform, which is still being controlled by non-state actors. These individuals who served as Consultants under the previous administration of Godwin Obaseki have denied Governor Monday Okpebholo-led government access to the backend of the...
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Rethinking our innocuous but pernicious Muslim Muslim ticket
Tony Abolo Complain as much as we may of the present Nigerian condition, the 32.7% inflation rate as at September 2024, according to the National Bureau of statistics (NBS), recorded the drop in GDP per capita from a high of $3,201 in 2014 to $1,621 today, four times collapse of the national grid, policy inertia,...
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Technician hacks mediator to death in Edo
Tragedy struck in Nekpenekpen Street off First East Circular Road Benin, in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State last week Thursday when a technician with his family, allegedly hacked a mediator to death, following a disagreement over a fairly use faulty standing fan he failed to fix after collecting undisclosed sum of money for...