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Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City Youths and motorists in Urokuosa community in Uhunmwode Local Government Area in Edo State, blocked the road yesterday to protest against incessant insecurity on the Benin-Auchi-Lokoja Road. The protest, which was the second in less than a month‎, forced long vehicular queues on both sides of the road and left commuters stranded for several hours. It was gathered that the protest was provoked by an alleged attack of a Toyota Sienna space bus by suspected Fulani herdsmen on Wednesday, which left many passengers injured. The protesters claimed that a driver of a p...

Edo police rescue six kidnapped victims, arrest two suspects The Punch Adeyinka Adedipe, Benin Six victims kidnapped along the Benin-Ekpoma Expressway were rescued on Thursday by men of the Edo State Police Command, while two suspects who allegedly took part in the abduction were also arrested. The victims were said to have been abducted around 6.40pm on Wednesday in a Toyota Sienna on their way from Ekpoma to Benin. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Kontongs Bello, in a press release on Thursday, said the two suspects — Abdulkarim Kazeem and Odoh Chukchekua —...