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Friday, April 15th, 2011
Today, the die is cast and all the anxiety of who becomes the country’s president in the next four years would give way within the next 48 hours, when the results would be announced. Some of the presidential candidates are seen as contestants to the throne, while some are mere pretenders. Indeed, most of them […]
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Edo, Governors, Headlines, State News
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
A motor accident caused by armed robbers yesterday claimed the life of one person in Benin, while 14 others who sustained varying degrees of injuries were rushed to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), The accident reportedly occurred at about 12pm yesterday at the Benin bye-pass when two buses had a head-on collision while […]
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Edo, Headlines, State News
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
An application by the former governor of Edo state, Lucky Igbinedion, to have his property seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) released to him was on Friday dismissed by Justice Mohammed Idris of a Federal High Court in Lagos for lack of merit. In the meantime, the ex- governor speaking through his […]
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Akwa Ibom, Delta, Edo, Elections 2011, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Imo, Kaduna, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
Readers election reports as sent in by Vanguard readers across the country. Note: Please include your names and location when sending your messages. Election in Itu ward 5 in Akwa Ibom state was free and fair There was no election nor materials in Southern Ijaw LGA of Bayelsa Materials were hijacked by PDP to Olugbobiri town […]
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Edo, Elections 2011, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
…21 suspected thugs arrested, PDP Youth leader shot dead SIMON EBEGBULEM AND GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE BENIN CITY- THE National Assembly election in Edo state commenced peacefully Saturday with large turn out, as soldiers on election duty arrested a truck loaded with election materials alleged to have been meant for Zamfara, Kogi and Ogun States, at […]
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Edo, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
No fewer that 14 persons lost their lives on Tuesday night along the Benin-Ore federal highway. Five others who sustained serious injuries are in hospital. In another accident, a car knocked down three primary school children yesterday in Port Harcourt. Two of the children-a boy and a girl- died on the spot while the third […]
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Edo, General Politics, Raw Politics, State News
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has sealed off two choice houses of former governor of Edo State, Lucky Igbinedion. The properties are those on 7, Justice Fatai Williams Street, Asokoro Abuja and 5 Danube Crescent, Maitama Abuja. The exercise was carried out on the heels of a forfeiture order granted the EFCC on […]
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Edo, Education, State News
Monday, March 7th, 2011
Edo State Government has committed the sum of N4bn to the reconstruction of 60 primary and junior secondary schools across the state. This was announced by Governor Adams Oshiomhole at the Action Congress of Nigeria campaign at Agenebode in Etsako East and Fugar in Etsako Central Local Government Areas on Saturday. A statement by […]
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Edo, National Politics, State News
Sunday, February 13th, 2011

A former Minister of State for Defence, Mike Oziegbe Onolememen, has urged the Federal Government to immortalize foremost nationalist, Pa Anthony Enahoro, by upgrading the Federal Technical College in Uromi, Edo State, to a University of Science and Technology and rename it “Anthony Enahoro University of Science and Technology.” Enahoro, who passed on in December […]
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Edo, State News
Sunday, February 13th, 2011
BENIN — STUDENTS of the Edo State owned Ambrose Alli University, Ekopma, have given a two-week ultimatum to the state government to reverse the current tuition fees introduced by the authorities of University or face a legal action. Besides, the Student Union Government of the institution has advised the students not to pay more than […]