LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. DanMallam Muhammed, has denied reports of attack on the residence of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. The Chief Press Secretary to the former Governor, Simon Ebegbulem, had raised the alarm the unknown hoodlums attacked the Benin residence of…
By Osakue Agbontaen LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The political tussle of supremacy in Edo State, for those of us who are concerned citizens, can best be described as an attempt by some retrogressive forces to truncate the hardworking governor’s populist agenda. It is important to remind ourselves that Godwin Obaseki’s emergence as governor of Edo State…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives has asked the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, and the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi, to shut down the Edo State House of Assembly. This followed the adoption of a report of the House ad-hoc committee set up to investigate the crisis…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The cold war between the immediate past governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and his successor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, took a sharp twist on Wednesday evening when a statement from the office of the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Barrister Osarodion Ogie, announced the major cabinet reshuffle exercise carried out…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Government has rejected the planned Reserved Urban Grazing Area (RUGA) initiative by the federal government aimed at settling herders in parts of the country. On the other hand, Nasarawa state government has giving full support to the scheme. While rejecting the Ruga initiative, Edo state said it has ”an…
LAGOS JULY 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)The Peoples Democratic Party in Edo State has accused Governor Godwin Obaseki of secretly conceding land to the federal government for a pilot scheme of the RUGA Settlement. It said Governor Obaseki’s silence on the issue at a time other state governments are rejecting the establishment of RUGA settlement in their respective states…
State LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, may have a very rough road to seeking another term of office next year, as his antagonists are planning to deny him the ticket of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), investigation by our correspondent has revealed. The current impasse in the State House…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some members-elect of the Edo State House of Assembly who took part in the midnight swearing-in ceremony orchestrated by the state government, have come out to denounce the process, as well as share stories of their forceful abduction to the public. In the 4-minute-long video obtained exclusively by Igbere TV, the lawmakers-elect…
