The Chief Medical Director of the Irrua Specialist Hospital, Prof. Sylvanus Okogbenin, has been kidnapped. His convoy was attacked by unknown gunmen suspected to be kidnappers...
Officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) have rescued two teenagers from a suspected human trafficking syndicate in Mali. The Edo State Comptroller of Immigration, Mr...
A former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, John Odigie-Oyegun, has urged his successor, Adams Oshiomhole, to desist from interfering in the affairs of Gov....
Suspected Fulani herdsmen reportedly struck in Edo State on Tuesday, shooting Felix Akanbi, a Naval Warrant Officer, to death and abducting eight passengers traveling from Akwa-Ibom...
Two Chinese working with a glass and aluminium company have been reportedly abducted by gunmen in Benin, Edo State. The incident happened on Wednesday at the...
Suspected thugs have beaten up Seidu Oshiomhole, the younger brother of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress and lawmaker-elect (Etsako West 11) of the...
A Benin High Court has sentenced to death a housewife and her pastor for the murder of a senior staff of Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC)...
The Chief Priest of Okhuaihe shrine, Osarodion Usuanlele, the Ohen N’ Ukoni Neyedo, has been arrested and detained at the Edo Police headquarters in Benin City,...
The Benin branch of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) has barred its members from handling cases of kidnapping and armed robbery. According to NAN, the branch...
The Edo Command of the Nigerian Police Force says it has arrested 81 suspects in connection with cult activities in the last 40 days. The command...
Gunmen have attacked the divisional police command at Afuze, headquarters of the Owan-East local government area of Edo, killing the divisional police officer (DPO) and three...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that fight against corruption was of utmost importance to his administration. Buhari said this on Thursday when he visited the Oba...
The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has rounded off the 2018 annual Igue Festival, worrying over the involvement of youths in money rituals. He warned...
The Edo State Police Command has reiterated the ban on sales of fireworks, while adding that offenders caught in the act would be prosecuted. This was...
Former minister of works, Chief Tony Anenih, is dead. Anenih, 85, died on Sunday evening at Cedarcrest Hospital, Abuja, after a brief treatment, a family source...
Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered service of court papers on application seeking order of mandamus compelling the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...
A fifty-one year old Nigerian nurse has been arrested in London, for trafficking young girls from Edo State to Germany for prostitution. The nurse who goes...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday declared the All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate, Gowin Obaseki, winner of the just concluded gubernatorial election in Edo...
Former Governor of Edo State, Mr. Lucky Igbinedion, has asked Governor Adams Oshiomole to explain to Edo State indigenes, how he allegedly squandered trillions of Federal...
BENIN—SECURITY operatives attached to Edo State Government House, weekend, arrested one of the escort drivers attached to the convoy of Governor Adams Oshiomhole who attempted to...