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Woman luring men to Bronx hotels where cohorts rob, duct tape them in sex scheme: cops A 20-something woman has been using Facebook to lure men to Bronx hotels, where two armed cohorts then rob the trio’s victims, cops say. Investigators are looking at five such robberies between July 7 and Tuesday, police said. “Once […]

The Northern Youths Movement (NYM) has described leaders of the opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP, like the former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, who are giving the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, false confidence rather than telling him the truth as his real enemies.   The youths, who agreed with Alhaji Lamido […]

We know they are lying,   They know they are lying,   They know we know they are lying,   We know they know we know they are lying,   But they are still lying.   Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn       Complicit   1. involved with others in an activity that is unlawful or […]

GOVERNOR Godwin Obaseki of Edo State is not my friend, but he took a decision I should have taken a long time ago myself if I were seating in Osadebe Avenue as the Governor of the state by prohibiting the embarrassing and bizarre open ended practice of prostitution in Benin City.    For a fact […]

A pro-development group, Esan Agenda, has called on the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed and the Presidency to apologise to the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, for disparaging him when he revealed that the apex bank was printing money indiscriminately to shore up government’s […]

Opposition Senators of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday protested the never-ending killings in Nigeria and vowed to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari, if he fails to resolve insecurity challenges within the next six weeks.   This was made known by the senators while addressing a press conference on the state of insecurity in the […]

…as govt expands premises for soundstage, movie production studio, others   The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said there are no plans to lay off the staff of the state-owned newspaper, the Nigerian Observer, noting that the media outfit is being revamped and upgraded to conform to the requirements of the digital era […]

A former commissioner of information in Edo State, Prince Kassim Afegbua, has said the past few days, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has been upbeat over the choice of Senator Kashim Shettima as the vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives’ Congress (APC).   In a statement he issued yesterday in Abuja, Afegbua said […]

The Edo State Ministry of Health has revealed that eight persons have so far tested positive for monkeypox in the state, urging residents to observe safety measures to reduce the spread of the virus and other infectious diseases in the state.   The Edo State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akoria Obehi, who disclosed this to […]

Tobi Amusan sped to a 12.12 (0.9m/s) clocking in her semifinal to break the world 100m hurdles record* at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 on Sunday (24).   The Nigerian had set an African record of 12.40 on Saturday to win her heat, the fastest first-round time in World Championships history. But even so, few […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for “failing to prosecute those suspected of vote-buying and electoral bribery during the recently concluded Ekiti State governorship election.”    According to reports, there was a brazen pattern of vote-buying and electoral bribery in several polling units during […]

The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar has challenged the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to sit for a 1 hour interview with any television.   Atiku’s comments are coming after the Tinubu campaign group criticised his recent interview with Arise Television, branding him an ‘expert […]