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Translate Home » News » Drop threat of warrant of arrest on minister over boundary dispute – Edo Group begs Obaseki Drop threat of warrant of arrest on minister over boundary dispute – Edo Group begs Obaseki On Kindly Share This Story: A Group, the Afenmai Patriotic Development Association (APDA), has called on the Edo State Government to drop the threat to issue a warrant of Arrest on the Hon Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Agba over the boundary dispute between the Communities of Uzanu and Igiode in Agenebode, Etsako-East, Edo State...

The story of the Benin bronzes is one Timothy Awoyemi, a British-Nigerian police officer, knows well. Like all schoolchildren in Nigeria, he was taught of the murderous 1897 raid when British soldiers plundered Benin City, stealing a priceless array of metal sculptures. So, unlike his United Kingdom-educated colleague Steve Dunstone, Awoyemi was not entirely puzzled by the scribbled note thrust suddenly into their hands: “Please help return the Benin bronzes.” It was 2004 and the pair were on a police outreach expedition, delivering books and supplies to communities along the Niger River....

BENIN CITY – The Edo State Government has stated that ongoing recruitment of staff into the Edo College of Agriculture and Natural Resources is part of many steps taken by the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration to reposition the institution in order to develop the needed manpower to drive the government’s robust agriculture-based economy. Acting Permanent Secretary, Edo State Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mr. Peter Aikhuomobhogbe Uidia, in a statement, explained that the recruitment exercise is part of the ongoing reforms in the agriculture sector, which is a pill...

BENIN CITY – THE newly posted Commissioner of Police to Edo state, Mr Philip Ogbadu yesterday read the riot act to criminals as he vowed to crush their activities and maintained that his target is to ensure kidnapped victims are rescued within four hours. Ogbadu stated this when he visited the Edo State Council Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) where he was received by the leadership of the union led by its Chairman, Sir Rolland Osakue. He said “In the past five days, you cannot kidnap anybody in this state and keep him or her for four hours, if you keep the person ...

Share The Edo State Police Commissioner, Mr. Philip Ogbadu, on Tuesday said that his target in the state is to ensure that kidnapped victims are rescued within four hours while also reading riot act to criminals, asking them to leave the state. Ogbadu, who made the disclosure during a visit to the Edo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), however, assured that the command was on top of the security situations in the state and warned criminals to relocate from the state. He, however, alleged that thouse criminals attacking people of the state are not indigenes of the state, ...