The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has directed all traditional chiefs and leaders in Benin Kingdom to perform the traditional “Bisusu” ceremony to ward off evil ahead of the Edo governorship election. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the ceremony is ensure a peaceful and hitch-free...
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The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has advocated a break to barriers that discourage Nigeria women participation in politics. Ewuare made the call on Sunday in Benin, when the gubernatorial candidate of the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) for the Sept. 21 election in Edo, Patience Key, paid a...
A Benin High Court on Monday adjourned the case preferred against the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II by two suspended Benin Enigie (Dukes) until Oct. 17. The two suspended Enigie (Dukes) of Evbuobanosa and Egbaen Siluko Dukedoms in Benin Kingdom, are Prof. Gregory Akenzua and Chief Edomwonyi...
Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the September 21, 2024 election in Edo State, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has congratulated the Benin Monarch, Oba Ewuare ll on the return of 39 stolen artefacts from Sweden. Okpebholo, in a statement on Friday morning, recalled that the artefacts...
The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has stripped six palace Chiefs of their traditional titles and banished them from the palace over alleged traditional sacrilege. Their banishment is contained in a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Oba, Mr Osaigbovo Iguobaro, on Monday in...
President Bola Tinubu has assured Nigerians that his administration will continue to promote the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) to improve access to higher education in the country. Tinubu gave the assurance at the 13th Convocation and Investiture of the third Chancellor of the National Open University of...
Oba of Benin, Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo, Uku Akpolokpolor, Ewuare II, on Tuesday, conveyed a message of hope to Edo citizens, urging the people to cast aside fears because better days were imminent. His message was delivered during the universal week of prayers, organised by the Benin...
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Philip Shaibu on Friday, congratulated the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II, on the occasion of the annual Igue Festival in Benin on Thursday. The governor said: “On the joyous occasion of the 2023 Igue...
The Oba of Benin, His Royal Majesty, Omonoba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Ewuare II, on Sunday harped on the diversity and unity of Nigeria. The Oba stressed the need for unity of Nigeria, while on a visit to Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, at the Lagos House, Marina. He...
Dukes (Enigies) from Benin Kingdom have commended the joint efforts of the federal government and the Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, towards the Benin Royal Museum’ project, in line with the principle of common and shared responsibility for result. This is contained in a statement by Osaigbovo Iguobaro, the...
The pan socio-cultural and non partisan movement, Esan Okpa Initiative (EOI), has showered encomiums on the late Esogban of Benin, Chief David U. Edebiri OON, who passed on recently at 94, saluting not only his forthright stance as an elder statesman who spoke truth to power but also commended...
President Bola Tinubu has pledged to protect Benin artefacts returned to the country from different parts of the world as a way of archiving the history of the people. Tinubu made the commitment on Friday in Abuja when he received the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo...
By MARTINS OGBEBE, Benin City – Immediate past Minister of Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, has reiterated emphatically that he does not, and I will not, have any disagreements with His Royal Majesty, Oba of Benin Kingdom, on any matter whatsoever. “He...
The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has expressed “total disappointment“ over what he described as the “lopsided representation“ by the immediate past Minister of Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Agba. In a statement in Benin by Mr Iguobaro Osaigbovo, the Chief Press Secretary to the Oba, the...
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,...
By EMMANUEL JIMOH, Benin – A delegation of Esan Traditional Rulers and leaders of Esan Okpa Initiative (EOI), a socio-cultural non partisan Pan Esan group, have requested the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare 11 to intervene in the ensuing political contest in Edo State...
Some rebellious Enigie (Dukes) have voluntarily returned and pledged their allegiance to the great Benin throne. A statement by Mr Iguobaro Osaigbovo, Chief Press Secretary to Oba to Benin, Oba Ewuare II, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday, said the pledge followed an...
Confirms approval of N1.9b in 2023 budget towards housing them in royal museum By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba, has congratulated His Royal Majesty, Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, Oba of Benin, on the...
By EMMANUEL JIMOH, Benin – The Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, on Sunday endorsed the suspension of Prof. Gregory Akenzua, as the Enogie (Duke) of Evbuobanosa Dukedom in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo. Mr. Osaigbovo Iguobaro, Chief Press Secretary to Oba Ewuare 11, announced this in a statement...
British High Commissioner to Nigeria Catriona Laing has said that the United Kingdom is encouraging institutions and facilities in possession of the Benin artefacts to return them to Nigeria. Laing made this known on Sunday in Abuja during her guest appearance at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum,...