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Action Congress of Nigeria, Edo, Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Saturday, July 7th, 2012
July 7, 2012 by Friday Olokor and James Azania 116 Comments Charles Airhiavbere and Adams Oshiomhole | credits: A week to the Edo State governorship election, the Peoples Democratic Party and the Action Congress of Nigeria are still at loggerheads. A national leader of the PDP, Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia, in an interview with journalists in […]
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Edo, State News
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
THE campaign organisation of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has alerted the people of Edo State to plan by some politicians to buy voter card from the electorate in the state, charging them to resist such overture. The organisation, in a release made available to newsmen, said despite repeated calls on people of the state not to […]
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Edo, Headlines, State News
Friday, June 29th, 2012
By SIMON EBEGBULEMJ, Benin THE Edo State Police Command said yesterday that it has commenced investigation into the attack on the convoy of Governor Adams Oshiomhole Thursday night and the burning of the Police post by youths alleged to be students of the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Usen. However, the State Government in […]
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Edo, Niger Delta, State News
Monday, June 18th, 2012
Investigations into the fracas that resulted in the destruction of over 40 vehicles at Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State on Sunday morning revealed that the warring ex-militants and suspected cultists were quarrelling over a female student of the institution. Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Eghosa Osaghae who addressed journalists yesterday, denied reports of a […]
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Articles, Columnists, Edo, Frisky Larr, NNP Columnists, State News
Friday, June 15th, 2012
By Frisky Larr | NNP | June 15, 2012 – Within the past two months, Nigerians have witnessed not less than ten media headlines reporting the alarm raised by Governor Adams Oshiomole over impending electoral manipulations in Edo state. Each time, he is accusing the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of planning to rig the […]
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Edo, Governors, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), South-South, State News
Thursday, June 14th, 2012
All five Peoples Democratic Party governors boycotted the inauguration of the PDP’s committee for the July 14 Edo State governorship election in Abuja on Wednesday. Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta), Liyel Imoke (Cross River), Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers) and Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom) were named as members of the 49-man committee saddled with the responsibility […]
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Edo, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole on Monday dragged News of the People, a soft sell weekly magazine before a Benin High Court, asking for N250m as damages, for alleged libel. Oshiomhole, in suit No B/556/2011, against Dockland Communications Limited, publishers of News of the People magazine, alleged that the content of a material published […]
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Articles, Columnists, Edo, NNP Columnists, State News, Sunny Chris Okenwa
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
By Sunny Chris Okenwa | Abidjan, Ivory Coast | May 8, 2012 – In an article I wrote way back in 2007 captioned: “The Anini In Anenih’ (http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/sunny-chris-okenwa/the-anini-in-anenih-16.html) I had compared the former PDP Board of Trustees Chairman, Chief Anthony Anenih, to one hell of a gangster named ‘The Law’ and concluded unapologetically that Anenih […]
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Edo, Latest Politics, Nigerian Police, State News
Monday, May 7th, 2012
The police have offered a N10 million reward to anyone with information that will lead to the arrest of the killers of Olaitan Oyerinde, the Principal Private Secretary of Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole. Oyerinde was killed last Friday by unknown gunmen. Announcing the reward in Benin yesterday, the Deputy Inspector-General (DIG) of Police […]
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Edo, Headlines, State News
Friday, May 4th, 2012
Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has given the police 14 days ultimatum to fish out killers of his principal private secretary, Mr. Olaitan Oyerinde, who was murdered in his home early yesterday. He also charged them to investigate the accident, which caused the death of three journalists inside a bus on his convoy last […]
