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By Editor May 25, 2025 Mr Sylvester Aigboboh More than six  months into the administration of Governor Monday Okpebholo , the Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has appointed his Personal Assistant (PA) Mr Sylvester Aigboboh, as the State Deputy chairman of the party   The party also elevated the former Deputy State chairman and now the Acting chairman, Emperor Jarret Tenebe, to the position of State Chairman. It also appointed Mr Pedro Esangbedo as the Vice Chairman for Edo Central Senatorial District. The party disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen on Sunday in Benin City. The statement signed by Emperor Jarret Tenebe, chairman, and Engineer Lawrence Okah, Secretary of the party, respectively, said the appointments take immediate effect.  It added that Mr Aigboboh and Mr Esangbedo will serve in an acting capacity pending the conduct of the party’s next State Congress.  According to the statement, "The Edo Sta...

By Editor April 12, 2025 Justice Mrs Nnenna Ogodo, the Chief Magistrate of an Abakaliki Magistrate Court has remanded four persons in prison for the alleged justice jungle. The remanded persons are  Egwuonwu Jonah, Sunday Obasi, Ogonnaya Eze (Boss) and  Godwin Nwoko-Obi. A charge sheet with suit number MAB/181c/2025 and made available to newsmen said the accused and others now at large were charged with 10 count. The charge sheet said the accused and others now at large committed the offences on February 21, 2025 at Mebi-Okpa Okposi Ohaozara, Ebonyi State. It said the suspects  were charged with conspiracy, attempted murder/acts intended to cause grievous harm and armed robbery, trial by ordeal and among others on two widows and a man. Part of the charge sheet read: "That the accused and others now at large on the said date and place in the aforesaid magisterial district did with intent to maim, disfigure or do some grievous harm, unlawfully subjected their vi...

The Oba of Benin Kingdom, Omo N’Oba N’Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II, and Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State  By Sebastine Ebhuomhan April 8, 2025   Monday, 7th April, 2025. Abuja. In a landmark, historic event, Edo State governor, His Excellency, Monday Okpebholo on Thursday visited the palace of the monarch of Benin Kingdom, Omo N’Oba N’Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II, to share the joy of his epochal victory on Wednesday, 2nd April, 2025, the day Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja unanimously affirmed his free, fair, credible and popular governorship election in September, 2024. Widely approved, supported and applauded by political observers, social commentators and communal advocates as an important task in the tradition of recognising the cultural, spiritual and divine role of the greatest throne, the visit drew thousands of appreciative well-wishers and residents of Benin City out of their homes and from the other parts of the state, ultimately resulting to...