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Opposition All Progressives Congress Gubernatorial candidate in September 2024 governorship elections in Edo State, Senator Monday Okpebholo has called for restraints in the fall out from the legal tussle between some Enigie (Dukes) and the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II. In a state made available to Alltimepost.com on Friday, the Monday Okpebholo/Dennis Idahosa Campaign Organization had this to say: …

Edo State Government has absorbed itself of complicity in the legal case instituted by some Enigie (Dukes) against His Royal Majesty, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II, the Oba of Benin. It noted that it was painful that the matter which “is essentially among brothers had degenerated to the point of litigation.” The government was reacting to the …

At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him. Rows of men in gray tracksuits are seen sitting on paper-thin mattresses, ringfenced by barbed wire. All appear blindfolded, their heads hanging heavy under the glare of floodlights. …

A Federal High Court in Abuja has insisted that its order made on April 17, for the arrest and production of ex-governor of Kogi state, Yahaya Bello still subsists. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling on Friday, May 10, held that Bello’s continued refusal to attend court and his frustration with the efforts of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to …

Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, arrived in Nigeria on Friday to champion the Invictus Games, which he founded to aid the rehabilitation of wounded and sick service members and veterans, among them Nigerian soldiers fighting a 14-year war against Islamic extremists. The couple, visiting the West African nation for the first time on the invitation of its military, arrived …

 …Demands N50 Million Compensation BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON A Benin-based private firm has threatened to institute a legal action against Edo State-owned Ossiomo Power Company over alleged unlawful disconnection of electricity supply to its factory. The establishment is demanding fifty million Naira as damages from the electricity firm for willful failure to supply electricity, an action it said amounted to breach …

*Development puts paid to neighbor’s earlier report that she was spotted in lover’s residence BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON  Edo State Police Command has revealed a devastating twist in its investigation into the disappearance of a 200-level Delta Varsity student, Faith Omodon, 19, saying she has been murdered and not spotted in her lover’s residence as findings earlier indicated. Faith Omodon At …

WASHINGTON — Hardline Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tried and failed in sudden action Wednesday to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, her long-shot effort swiftly and resoundingly rejected by Democrats and Republicans tired of the political chaos. One of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters in Congress, Greene stood on the House floor and read a long list of “transgressions” she said Johnson had committed as …

The Director General of the Edo State Health Insurance Commission (EDOHIC), Dr. Rock Amegor, has said over 102,000 vulnerable persons in the State are benefitting from the State’s Equity Fund and the Basic Healthcare Provision Fund (BHCPF). Dr. Amegor disclosed this in Benin City during an event to commemorate two years of providing care to vulnerable groups under the Basic …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON  Labour Party (LP), governorship candidate in the forthcoming Edo gubernatorial election, Barrister Olumide Akpata formally invited by police over alleged security breaches, involving shootings at the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Ugbowo Campus, has finally honored the invitation.  Akpata who was reportedly invited by the police three weeks  ago, showed up at the State police Command headquarters where …