FROM ACHEIVE

on September 29, 2013  

The inability of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Major General Muhammadu Buhari to pay a courtesy visit to the Benin monarch, His Royal Majesty Omo n’Oba n’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Erediauwa on Thursday before his campaign rally in Benin City is…

News Thursday, January 29, 2015

By Gabriel Enogholase



BENIN-The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State has raised alarm over what it described as the alleged plot by the state government to sell the Nigerian Army Barracks in Ikpoba Hill, Benin City, due to…

Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, on Friday, agreed with the National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki on the need for Nigeria to postpone the February general elections.

George, who addressed a press conference at his Ikoyi, Lagos residence, also made the call for a shift in the polls to enable Nigerians collect their PVCs. He said he was yet to collect his own.

“The NSA sees…

Aisha Buhari, the wife of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari, has said her husband will not tamper with the office of the ‘First Lady,’ if it is constitutionally recognised.

Mrs. Buhari told newsmen on the sidelines of the inaugural meeting of the APC women presidential campaign initiative held in Abuja on Saturday.

The wife of the APC presidential flag-bearer was reacting to her husband’s promise…

PDP should remove mole in its eyes first, Apc says

BENIN—EDO State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused the state governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, of carrying out what it described as “as total killing of industries in the state.”

It also accused the state government of…

The military initially said 143 Boko Haram fighters had died in the over five hours of fighting.

Cameroon’s army has said it killed 143 Boko Haram fighters.

This is coming as the government said it was the biggest defeat it had inflicted to date on the Islamist group.

The government spokesman, Issa Bakary, made the announcement on Tuesday in Yaoundé.

Bakary said the insurgents were killed after they…

Edo withdraws ITV's accreditation

January 11, 2015 

Conrade Adams Oshiomhole

EDO State Governor Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole has approved the sum of N200 million for the establishment of an Islamic Centre in Auchi, the Administration Headquarters of Etsako West Local Government Area of the State.

The centre which is to be called Hajia Aishetu Oshiomhole, Islamic Institute according to the Otaru of Auchi, HRH Alhaji Aliru Momoh who announced the donation on behalf of…

JANUARY 1, 2015 9:21 AM BY ANDY EGBON 

BENIN CITY -United States-based Human Rights Activist, Mr. Frank Ekhator has condemned in its strongest terms, the attack on Edo culture by some unscrupulous religious Ministers, describing it as not only diabolic, malicious and ignorance, but ideological and fanatically driven for soul-wining and financial gratifications.

In a paper he delivered at a ceremony in Boston last Saturday, marking the celebration of Igue Festival by…