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NATIONAL COORDINATOR OF CONFLICT SOLUTION ADVOCACY; OSARO ONAIWU JNR. CONGRATULATES EX-IGP SOLOMON ARASE AS NEW PSC CHAIRMAN.

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 It is with profound joy that I write to congratulate you on this great feat. Another prominent Edo son, being placed on the national map as a catalyst for good governance and institutional reforms.  Having served as the 18th indigenous Inspector General of Police (IGP) and head of the Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Bureau; the foremost intelligence-gathering unit in the Nigerian Police, we're confident that your experience and capacity to bring forth strategic reforms and development to the Nigerian Police Force is not in doubt.  Please remember, just as you've vowed to tackle issues of corruption and prioritise officers welfare, we also urge you to look deeply into the aspect of recruitment of competent men. Through a process that is all encompassing; laced with mental and psych-motor test, to ensure that the newly recruited officers would have the psychological foundation for modern day policing.  Nonetheless, do something about the prompt promotion of th...

Edo Assembly Election: Obaseki declares Friday half-work day

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 Ahead of Saturday’s State Assembly election, the Edo State Government has declared today, Friday, March 17, 2023 a half-work day. In a statement, the Secretary to the State Government, Osarodion Ogie Esq., said the directive, which implies that government offices and establishments will close for work by 12 noon, is to allow workers in the state travel to their respective constituencies to exercise their franchise. Accordingto him: “The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has approved Friday, March 17, 2023 as a half-work day to allow workers in the state travel to their respective constituencies to exercise their franchise. With this notice, Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) are to close by 12noon. He added, “all government establishments except those on essential duties are expected to be closed by 12 noon and the workers are encouraged to take advantage of the half-work day to travel to their various constituencies to participate in tomorrow's State Hou...

Open Letter to the Director-General of DSS; Mr. Yusuf Magaji Bichi

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 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDO WOMEN IN POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE (IAEWPG) CALLS ON THE DG OF DSS TO INVESTIGATE AND TRUNCATE THE PROPOSED PLANS BY ADAMS OSHIOMOLE, DAN ORBIH AND OGBEIDE IHAMA TO DISRUPT THE MARCH 18TH HOA ELECTIONS IN EDO.  It is with great confidence that we write to draw your attention to the concocted plans of three senior political leaders of the state, in a proposed arrangement to dubiously deploy violence to disrupt the forthcoming House of Assembly elections slated to hold on Saturday 18th March 2023. This trio; The former National Chairman of the APC, Comr. Adams Oshiomole, the current deputy vice chairman of PDP, Chief Dan Orbih and the member representing  Oredo federal constituency, Hon. Ogbeide Ihama has been singled out as prime organisers of this undemocratic plan.  Collectively, we have written out of fear and trepidation. We hope most sincerely that proper investigation will be done to avert the impeding dangers looming in the dark ...

CORRUPTION IS FIGHTING EFCC CHAIRMAN; Coalition of CSOs in Benin Challenges Calls for Bawa's Resignation

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 COALITION OF CSOs for GOOD GOVERNANCE AND SOCIAL CHANGE CHALLENGES AND DEBUNKS CALLS FOR SACK OF THE CHAIRMAN OF EFCC ABDULRAHEED BAWA We write as the foremost civil society coalition in Benin to express our dismay and challenge and resist the calls for the resignation of the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Abdulrasheed Bawa.  This call, as they have acclaimed is anchored on Bawa's alleged disregard for court orders. But with all intent and purpose, we stand with Bawa, we refute these baseless allegations and identify strongly with the numerous achievement recorded in the fight against corruption by the Commission under the Chairmanship of Abdulrasheed Bawa.  He has dared the high and mighty in his fight to enthrone justice and social civility in Nigeria.  As prime advocates for good governance and youth inclusion in politics, we question this targeted attacks on the young personality of the Chairman. We see it as an act of ridiculing...

An Open Letter to IGP Usman Alkali Baba

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 NATIONAL COALITION OF EDO VOTERS (NCEV) CALLS ON THE IGP TO INVESTIGATE AND PREVENT THE PROPOSED DISRUPTION OF THE EDO STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BY THREE REPUTABLE SONS OF THE LAND. (COMR. ADAMS OSHIOMOLE, CHIEF DAN ORBIH AND HON. OGBEIDE IHAMA)  1. I begin by commending you for the adequate preparation of the Nigerian Police Force for a violence free election as witnessed in Edo in the just concluded February 25th general elections. I also want to use this opportunity to commend our service men and women for ensuring the protection of lives and property in Nigerian. No matter the reservation anyone has for the Nigerian Police Force, I make bold to say that without you and your officers on ground, lives will be 'nasty, brutish and short' in the words of Thomas Hobbs.  2. It is with great panic that it has come to our notice, that three notable politicians from Edo state has gone into an unholy alliance to carry out some calculated measure of violence, disruption ...

Edo voters vow to reject APC at Saturday’s House of Assembly polls

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…say Tinubu’s declaration as president-elect, rape of democracy Voters in Edo State under the aegis of the National Coalition of Edo Voters have vowed to reject candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the March 11 House of Assembly elections in the state to express their displeasure over the gross manipulation of results of the Presidential and National Assembly elections by the party in favour of its candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Speaking at a press conference in Benin City, the Edo State capital, the group rejected the outcome of the poll, noting that the declaration of the APC candidate as the winner of the poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was a rape of democracy. Convener of the group, Olu Martins, while decrying APC’s desperation to usurp democracy and foist their candidate on Nigerians against their will, urged Edo voters to reject the party at the forthcoming March 11 House of Assembly elections. He said, “We only had one problem in N...

March 11 Elections: Nigerians, Be Careful Over INEC Sudden Romans With APC, Says Group

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 …Asks Nigerians to vote out APC in the forthcoming guber, house of assembly elections …Calls for immediate resignation of INEC Chairman By Simeon OSAJIE A group known as ‘The National Coalition of Edo Voters’ have continue to press home its demand for the cancellation of the February 25, 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections and cautioned Nigerians to be vigilant with INEC and APC in the forthcoming governorship and house of assembly elections, that Nigeria is at crossroad as the duo have suddenly become unaccepted twin. Recall the group at a press conference in Benin City are demanding for immediate resignation of Mahmoud Yakubu, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and also demanding that a neutral body of forensic experts should be invited to audit the entire Presidential and National Assembly elections results, with a view to discovering the demons that have been be devilling free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria. In a peaceful protest ...

National Coalition Of Edo Voters Demands Total Cancellation Of 2023 General Elections

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 …Calls for immediate resignation of INEC Chairman By Simeon OSAJIE The9jaTrend The National Coalition of Edo Voters has called for immediate cancellation of 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections conducted by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) where the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was pronounced the winner. Addressing newsmen at the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Benin City, Edo State capital, Comrade Olu Martins who speaks on behalf of the Conveners – Comrade Chris Ojeikere, Comrade Shedrach Udugbai and Comrade Douglas Odens, said, “let it be on record that the only party today not concerned about such catastrophic irregularities in the 2023 election results, is the APC, whose 8 years of harrowing and gruesome maladministration, Nigerians have patiently endured to change in 2023.”  According to Comrade Martins, “INEC, deviously failed to upload the election results into the Independent Review Portal (IREV...

#NigeriaDecides2023: Concerned Citizens protest presidential election results

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 By Ehis Agugu  A group of Concerned Citizens yesterday took to the streets of Benin, Edo State to protest the rigging of the results of the presidential election. INEC had on Wednesday declared the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, as the winner of the 25 February election. According to the result announced by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mr Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State polled 8, 794, 726 to defeat his major rivals; Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 6, 984, 520 votes and Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP) who secured 6,101,533 votes of the 24, 965, 218 total vote cast. Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP came a distant fourth with 1,496,687 votes. The leader of the group, Honourable Shadrach Udugbai said the result of the 2023 presidential elections is unacceptable to Nigerians at large because the peoples decision has not been rendered in the results we loo...