Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki on Friday, said that the state operates the highest paid Civil and public service in Nigeria, thereby consciously laying a solid foundation for the future of the state. Obaseki made this known during the seventh edition of the Alaghodaro summit, organised by...
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Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has said the late Esogban and Odionwere of Benin Kingdom, Chief David Edebiri, was a father who represented the essence of the Benin tradition. Obaseki said this on Friday, while paying tribute to the late number two palace chief in Benin Kingdom, after...
Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has accepted the public apology by his deputy, Philip Shaibu, but noted that “his aberrant behaviour contradicts what the people of Edo stand for. “To name a few, the deputy governor needlessly filed unfounded petitions in the Nigerian courts restraining me, the State...
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has won in all 18 Local Government Areas in the Edo State local government election held on Saturday, according to results released by the state independent electoral commission. The election was held in all the 18 local government areas of the state covering...
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, on Saturday expressed satisfaction with the conduct of Local Government elections in the state. Obaseki gave the remark shortly after he voted at Ward 10, Unit 19 polling station at about 1.50 p.m. According to him, “in spite of the rain, the...
Elections are over: A call for Governor Godwin Obaseki to show more statesmanship, By MOHAMMED IDRIS
Elections are over: A call for Governor Godwin Obaseki to show more statesmanship, By MOHAMMED IDRIS
The statement credited to Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, which was used as the lead front page story in Thisday Newspaper of today (Thursday, August 24, 2023) did not come to anyone as a surprise. However, it is essential to clarify certain narratives for a more informed public discourse....
Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo have berated the Deputy Governor of the State, Comrade Philip Shaibu, for approaching the court over an allegation of impeachment. Rising from a meeting on Sunday in Igueben, Igueben Local Government Area of the state, the party leaders who...
Sen. Adams Oshiomole (APC-Edo) says the embattled Edo deputy governor, Mr Philip Shaibu is not welcome in the All Progressives Congress (APC). Oshiomole said this in Benin on Thursday when he spoke with newsmen on his reaction to the rumour of Shaibu’s planned defection from the Peoples Democratic Party...
Chieftains of Edo North (Afemai) People’s Democratic Party on Monday expressed their support for Gov. Godwin Obaseki against the backdrop of the current fight between him and his Deputy, Philip Shaibu. Shaibu recently approached an Abuja Federal High Court to stop Obaseki, the state Chief Judge and Edo...
Edo State Government has resumed the payment of outstanding gratuities to its pensioners 17 years after it stopped the exercise. Mr Crusoe Osagie, Special Adviser on Media projects to Edo government made this known in Benin on Thursday. He told newsmen that one of the reasons for...
Former Director General of the Nigerian Governors Forum, (NGF) Earl Osaro Onaiwu, has felicitated with Gov, Godwin Obaseki of Edo on his 66th birthday anniversary. Onaiwu in a statement he personally signed on Saturday, said he was grateful to the Almighty for giving the Edo State governor good health...
I can read Governor Godwin Obaseki’s book like a piece of elementary poem, scripted in very uncoordinated stanzas, meant to deliver diatribe, hate, scorn, disrespect and disdain by its thematic focus. Governor Obaseki is an artful dodger who wears a cloak of an unpretentious good guy, for optics,...
It is a pedestrian information that in his effort to cushion the effects of the rising cost of living in the country triggered by the recent removal of subsidy on petroleum products in the country, the Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki, raised the minimum wage for workers on its payroll from N30,...
By EMMANUEL JIMOH, Benin – Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki says the newly-inaugurated 650,000 barrels per day (bpd) Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Company will save Nigeria over $3 billion annually from importation of petroleum products. He said the refinery was a game changer for Nigeria which will open a...
Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo, on Monday, approved the payment of 13th-month salary to Edo civil and public servants. Obaseki gave the approval during an interactive session with civil and public servants between Grade Levels 8 and 17 at the Sir Victor Uwaifo Creative Hub, Benin City. He commended the...
Though it’s been long known via research that when traumatic events –those involving anxiety and pains occur or are told to those who feel linked by identity to the victims- whether the shared identity is ethnic, religious, historical, cultural, linguistic or nationalistic, it can never produce emotional and physical...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Political Elders, Edo North Senatorial District, Edo, have urged the party members to work together in unity for the success of the party in the 2023 general elections. The party elders gave the advice in a statement by Tunde Akogun, Sen. Yisa Braimoh, Sen....
Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo on Friday laid foundation for the construction of an education hub to house a world class library with 50 million titles with state-of- the-art facilities in Edo. Obaseki, who performed the ground breaking ceremony at premises of the Ministry of Education, Iyaro in Benin,...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday declared the candidates who emerged from the primaries conducted by the Gov Godwin Obaseki-led faction of the PDP in Edo as the authentic representatives of the party. This judgment delivered by Justice Centus Nweze brings to an end the long-drawn legal battle to decide...
Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo said the state government spent $150 million on flood control and erosion management in different locations. Obaseki made the disclosure at the official launch of the Edo State Flood, Erosion, and Watershed Management Agency (Edo FEWMA) in Benin at the weekend. Edo FEWMA is...