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Edo Demolishes Ogbemudia’s Houses

Posted by admin Edo, State News Saturday, September 10th, 2011

Two houses belonging to two-time governor of defunct Midwest Region and later Bendel State, Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia, on Friday, demolished by the Edo State Task Force Committee on Illegal Structures. The buildings, located at Number 129, Siluko Road in Benin City, the state capital, were demolished for purportedly blocking the right of way of the […]

Armed men abduct PDP chieftain in Edo, kill orderly, driver

Posted by admin Edo, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News Monday, August 29th, 2011

BENIN CITY — TRAGEDY struck in Benin City, yesterday, when armed men, suspected to be kidnappers, abducted the Chairman/Managing Director of Tomline Industrial Company Limited and a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Elder Tes Sorae, after his driver and orderly were shot dead. His wife, who was also shot, is in critical situation […]

Edo govt to evacuate lunatics, destitute persons from Benin

Posted by admin Edo, State News Thursday, August 25th, 2011

Edo State Government is set to evacuate lunatics and destitutes constituting nuisance and defacing the state capital, thereby rubbishing the beautification programme of the government. Besides, government said, “we are committed to good governance and quality infrastructural development to meeting the basic socio-economic needs of the people. We have secured a very comfortable loan with […]

Oshiomhole plans Aikhomu’s immortalisation

Posted by admin Edo, Latest Politics, State News Saturday, August 20th, 2011

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State said that his government was presently discussing with the family of the late former Chief of General Staff , Admiral Augustus Aikhomu who served under General Ibrahim Babagida’s military administration on the burial plans and how to immortalise the elderstateman who was the only Edo indigene to have risen […]

Minimum wage: FG to pay N18,900 as labour, govt finally sign agreement •Govs finding solution to pay N18,000 minimum wage – Oshiomhole

Posted by admin Edo, Headlines, State News Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

THE prolonged negotiation between the Federal Government and the organised labour ended on a happy note late, on Tuesday, when the Federal Government announced that the minimum pay in the federal civil service and public service will be N18, 900, even as it signed what it hoped will be the final agreement with labour on […]

N18, 000 Mimimum Wage Act not convenient –Oshiomhole

Posted by admin Edo, Headlines, State News Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomole on Tuesday said the N18,000 National Minimum Wage Act signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan in March, 2011, as the new monthly salary for workers as against the old N5,500 is not a convenient law owing to the challenges it posed to state governments across the Federation. He was, […]

Jonathan hails Oshiomhole

Posted by admin Edo, Headlines, State News Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

President Goodluck Jonathan has commended Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole for his role in averting a nationwide strike recently. A nationwide warning strike was called last week by the Nigerian Labour Congress after the Federal Government and some state governors said they would not implement the new minimum wage. However, the NLC back-pedalled on […]

Edo plans return of schools to missions

Posted by admin Edo, Headlines, State News Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has said the state government is considering the possibility of returning schools to missions to ensure that the government’s investment in the schools are not left to rot. Speaking on Wednesday at the foundation-laying of a new model college at the old Pilgrims Baptist College, Ewohinmi, Edo Central, the […]

Apologise in seven days, Oba of Benin tells Edo PDP

Posted by admin Edo, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News Sunday, July 3rd, 2011

The Palace of the Oba of Benin has given a seven-day ultimatum to a leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, Owere Dickson Imasogie, to tender unreserved apology to the Benin monarch over a statement credited to him that the Oba influenced the victory of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in […]

Edo not in turmoil over ministerial nominee – N-Delta women

Posted by admin Edo, Headlines, Niger Delta, State News Sunday, June 26th, 2011

A pressure group in Edo State, the Niger Delta Women in Politics has dispelled rumours making the round in the State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that Edo State is in turmoil over ministerial nominee, saying on the contrary we commend the PDP over the ministerial nominee from Edo State; Arc Mike Onolememen, a young professional […]