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Hendrix Oliomogbe  The Ambrose Alli (AAU), Ekpoma, Edo State chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has expressed concern over the composition of the recently constituted Truth and Reconciliation Panel set up by the university authorities. In a letter to the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of the institution, Dr. Omo-Ehijele Frank Odafen through the new Acting Vice Chancellor, Prof. Samuel Olowo, the union wrote that it was extremely disturbed that the school's Acting Registrar, Mr Ambrose Ehi Odiase, who served in the defunct Special Intervention Team (SIT) of the university is still in office, appending signatures to important documents and memoranda, including the Truth and Reconciliation Panel's circular.  The letter by the chairperson of the local chapter of ASUU, Dr. Cyril Onogbosele and Dr. William Odion, the assistant secretary, the duo also faulted the inclusion of the Congress of Nigerian Universities Academics (CONUA) in the p

izedonmwen.                                                                                  Hendrix Oliomogbe  The governorsip candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Saturday September, 21 Edo Election, Mr. Derek Izedonmwen has slammed the candidates of the two major political parties for their refusal not to show up at the recent Governorship Debate. Speaking in Benin at the debate which was organized by the Nigeria Elections Debate Group (NEDG), Mr. Izedonmwen lamented that Edo People are very pessimistic about Edo State and was in the race to rescue the state from its present sorry state to an industrial power house. He said: "We are facing a great economic imbalance in Nigeria today. Our people are facing serious hardship because of terrible decisions being taken by people at the top." It's disturbing that the big parties are not here. The change that we seek for our state doesn't start with the big parties. It's somewhere else. They have disen

.        *izedonmwen Hendrix Oliomogbe  Five days to Saturday September, 21 Edo State Governorship Election, the candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Engr. Derek Izedonmwen has raised an alarm of a plot by some individuals, parading themselves as members and leaders of the party in Edo State to announce that its campaign structure is collapsing in support of the candidate of another party. In a statement Tuesday in Benin by Engr. Izedonmwen and made available to journalists, he insisted that the action is false, deceitful, and an insult to the intelligence of the good people of Edo State. While insisting that he is still very much in the race and has no intention of neither stepping down nor endorsing any candidate, he described the self styled members and leaders of the party in Edo State as political merchants who have made it their stock in trade to sell out the will of the people for personal gain. The statement read in part: "I categorically condemn any such pr

                      Obaseki: Down in supplication  By Chris Azebamwan Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki believes that Saturday, September 21 Governorship Election is a do or die game of who blinks first. Expectedly, he refused to sign the pre-election Peace Accord.  Last Saturday, at the People's Democratic Party (PDP) grande finale in Benin, he didn't mince his words. He bellowed that the party is facing an existential threat following the disbandment of his storm troopers, Edo Security Network (Vigilantes) and as such the election is a do or die! Governor Obaseki thinks bravado and filibuster approaches that worked very well for him in 2020 will pay off again. But the political setting this time around is different, and the variables have shifted.  The governor cannot keep playing the victim card in the vain hope of whipping up sympathy. Furthermore, he deployed the state sponsored security outfit, Vigilantes during the last local government elections to intimidate, oppress

          Gov. Obaseki speaking at the PDP Grande.                    Finale in Benin Hendrix Oliomogbe  Still starting from his refusal to endorse the Peace Accord brokered by former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki Saturday in Benin gave reasons why next Saturday, September 21 Edo State Governorship Election is a do or die for the People's Democratic Party (PDP). Recalled that former President Olusegun Obasanjo had infamously declared in one of the PDP campaign stumps during the run up to the 2007 Presidential Election between former President Umaru Yar'Adua of the PDP and ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the then Action Congress (AC), that the poll was a do or die affair. Governor Obaseki had earlier accused the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of being biased and lashed out at security agents for arresting, harassing and intimidating supporters of the PDP across the state. Speaking at the pa

           UNIBEN Vice Chancellor, Prof. Lilian Salami Hendrix Oliomogbe   Three students of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) who were rescued from the collapsed storey building  Saturday morning at Ekosodin community are presently in stable condition at the school's Health Centre where they were rushed for treatment. According to reports, the building, where the students resided at the popular students' village, collapsed in the early hours of today following a torrential rain which started Friday afternoon. Cases of building collapse, which are very rampant in Nigerian commercial capital city of Lagos are very rare in the Edo State capital of Benin City and anywhere in the Heart Beat of the Nation State. The statement by the institution's spokesperson, Dr. Benedicta Ehanire disclosed that a combined rescue team made up of staff of the Security and Fire service departments, the Health Centre, students as well as the police  succeeded in rescuing the students from the ill-f

  Hendrix Oliomogbe  Five persons were feared dead Friday in a fatal accident involving the convoy of Senator Monday Okpebholo, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the September 21 election. The accident which happened along Warrake Road near Uzebba axis, Owan West Local Government Area of the State reportedly led to the death of one Mr.  Emmanuel Edionwe and four of his friends who rode in a Toyota Camry car. The victims were said to be on their way home from a burial ceremony when they met their untimely death as they attempted to negotiate a sharp bend on the road and collided with the motorcade..  It was gathered that Senator Okpebholo’s convoy rammed into the victims’ Silver Camry Sedan car when they were attempting to negotiate a sharp bend on the road. In tears, a relative of Mr.Edionwe who did not want his name in print lamented: “We are devastated beyond words. Emmanuel was a good, easy going boy. “He and his friends were driving in the Silver