GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has warned his Edo State counterpart Godwin Obaseki to stop trying to claim they are equals or he will smoke him out and expose him for the ungrateful person he is.
In a racketing up of the political temperature ahead of next year's general elections, the two governors appear to have been...
GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has pledged that his administration will not engage in disrespectful exchanges with the Oba of Benin Oba Ewuare II over stolen artefacts that are currently being retrieved from across Europe.
Several European museums such as London's Horniman Museum is considering returning several...
MEMBERS of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF) have distanced themselves from claims made by Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State that the federal government printed between N50bn and N60bn in March to enable it fund the budget.
Early this month, Governor Obaseki reported that Nigeria was in huge financial trouble,...
NIGERIA'S finance minister Zainab Ahmed has dismissed recent claims by Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State that the federal government printed N60bn ($157m) to help fund the 2021 budget saying such allegations were not only untrue but unfortunate.
Last week, Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State reported that Nigeria was in...
LONDON'S Horniman Museum is considering returning several Nigerian artefacts including bronze statues obtained using colonial violence during the 1897 Massacre of Benin in response to the growing clamour for correcting British wrongs against its former colonies.
Collections at the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill include...
GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has met with German foreign ministry officials to demand the return of precious artefacts looted during the 1897 Massacre of Benin revealing that he intends to house them in his proposed Edo Museum of West African Art.
During the British colonisation of Nigeria, Benin suffered from the...
GOVERNOR Babajide Sanwoolu has imposed a 24 curfew across Lagos State starting from 4pm today in response to the recent violence that has resulted from hoodlums hijacking the peaceful #EndSARS protests and setting the state ablaze.
Over the last fortnight, Nigerian youths have been organising a peaceful protest to demand the...
GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike has attributed the free and fair conduct of the recent gubernatorial elections in Edo State to the threat by the UK and US to impose visa bans on anyone who rigged the polls.
In the run-up to the polls, the British high commission in Nigeria, threatened sanctions against any officials involved in...
NATIONAL leaders of Nigeria's All Progressives Congress (APC) have stepped up the pressure on their Edo State gubernatorial candidate Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu to accept the result of last Saturday's elections and concede defeat to Governor Godwin Obaseki.
On Saturday Edo State went to the polls to elect a new governor in what was a...
FEARS that the recently-concluded Edo State gubernatorial polls could be followed by a costly and lengthy legal battle have grown after the elections petitions tribunal opened its secretariat at the Benin high court complex.
On Saturday Edo State went to the polls to elect a new governor in what was a bitter contest between...
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