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.            Idahosa speaking, Ms Igbinedion and other leaders at the meeting  Hendrix Oliomogbe  Ahead of the August 16, 2025 House of Representatives by election for Ovia Federal Constituency, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has unanimously endorsed a scion of the Igbinedion Family of Okada. The choice of Gabriella Omosede, who had a stint at the red chambers between 2007 and 2011 on the platform of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) was announced by the deputy governor, Dennis Idahosa, the immediate past  member, representing the consistency, shortly after a meeting. The meeting at Iguobazuwa, headquarters of Ovia South West Local Government Area was attended by top.leaders of the party from the two local government areas, including Ovia South West which make up the Constituency. The younger igbinedion defected to the APC, shortly before the September 21, 2024 Edo governorship election. In her acceptance speech shortly after th...

  Hendrix Oliomogbe  The 2027 presidential election may still be far away but the leadership of the South-South zone of the All Progressives Congress (APC) weekend in Benin at the party’s zonal stakeholders’ meeting endorsed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as its sole presidential candidate. Also, the ruling party resolved to adopt the quartet of Governors Bassey Edet Otu of Cross River State, Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State, Umo Bassey Eno of Akwa Ibom State and host Monday Okpebholo of Edo State, notwithstanding the fact that his election comes up in 2028. Oborevwori and Eno recently defected to the APC from the main opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP). In his welcome address, Senator Okpebholo predicted that the meeting and the decision that would be taken had the potential to unite not only the South-South geopolitical zone, but the entire nation.  The Edo State governor said that it is on record that the South-South geo-political zone had always spoken with one ...

          Ighodalo, Okpebholo  By Sebastine Ebhuomhan All is now set for judgement today, Wednesday, July 2, 2025 at the Supreme Court, Abuja in the petition by Dr. Asuerinme Ighodalo of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) challenging the victory of incumbent Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the September 21, 2024 Governorship Election. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) returned Senator Okpebholo, who scored 291, 667 votes in the election to defeat Ighodalo with 247, 655 votes. Okpebholo also unanimously defeated Ighodalo, PDP and two other political parties, Action Alliance (AA) and Accord Party (AP) at the tribunal; a feat he repeated at the Court of Appeal. At the Appeal Court, Okpebholo’s cross-appeal was admitted under Sections 167 and 169 of the Evidence Act. The court also admitted the cross-appeal’s objection to the admissibility of 133 INEC BIVAS machines, which Ighodalo refused to ope...

                         Oba Ewuare II  Piqued by an alleged malicious publication against the suspended Enogie of Ehor in Uhunmwonde Local Government Area of Edo state, Pa David Igiehor JP, over illegal sale of the community land, concerned indigenes of the community have debunked the allegation. A statement by the secretary of the indigenes, Mr Best Osaro ldahosa noted that the news item, which was anchored by one Asaba, Delta State journalist, one Nosa Akenzua and published in an online media on Friday June 13th, 2025 is a calculated attempt by the petitioner, Mr Richard lrabor to smear the image of the Enogie. In the petition, it was alleged that the suspended Enogie had since his suspension by the Benin monarch, Oba Ewuare II, sold several community lands running into millions of Naira used in mobilizing some youths of the area to beg the Benin monarch at the palace gate in Benin City for mercy. Mr. Idahosa said ...

.        Oba Ewuare II, Obaseki  Hendrix Oliomogbe  The Oba of Benin, Omo N'Oba Ewuare II has painted a graphic picture of how former Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki waged what could be described as a war of attrition against the Benin monarchy. Oba Ewuare II, who spoke at his palace in Benin during a visit by the leadership of the Edo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) said that for seven months, Obaseki deliberately withheld the monies accrued to the Benin Traditional Council (BTC) from the seven local government areas of Edo South Senatorial district. The monarch remarked that it got to a point where he had to use his own personal money to offset the salary and accounts of workers and to maintain the palace, following the paucity of funds. He said: "For seven months, no kobo was given to the palace. I had to personally look for money to pay the staff. Grasses grew everywhere in the palace and we didn't have money to cut them." The ...

                   Osaghae  Hendrix Oliomogbe  With about 150,000 Nigerian babies born with Sickle Cell Disorder (SCD) every single year and roughly 50 million Nigerians carrying the trait (AS), the disease remains the single greatest genetic health challenge in Africa, a former President of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Prof. Dominic Osaghae has disclosed. Prof. Osaghae, who spoke recently in Benin City, Edo State during the World Sickle Cell Day lamented that about 75-million children with the deadly disease die before their fifth birthday, a stark reality, he insisted, Nigerians cannot-and should not-whisper about any longer. Besides, Prof. Osaghae called for legislation that will make genotype testing for intending couple free and compulsory before marriage. Speaking on the theme, "Tell it Loud", the former NMA president said that the recent decision by the federal government to expand newborn screening and compreh...

Osazuwa and the quadruplets                        Hendrix Oliomogbe  Children, they say are the future and golden gift from God. Their arrival bring indescribable joy to the happy parents, friends, close family members and even clansmen. Ironically, what is supposed to bring merriment to Mr. Augustine Osazuwa is presently the source of heartache to the mechanic following his inability to meet up with the expenses involved in taking care of his quadruplet children of three boys atd a git, who are still at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), where they were delivered on June 2, 2025. The arrival of the four tiny tots was met with happiness flavoured with sadness as the wife and children are still in the pediatric ward of the hospital. In deep distress, Mr. Osazuwa, 44, a motor mechanic said that he was over the moon, when his wife put to bed, adding sadly that the joy was however wiped off his brow when he was...