Benin

Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested an 18-year-old boy who allegedly killed his mother for ritual purposes.

The Ministry of Health in Edo on Friday advised residents to kill rodents to prevent the outbreak of Lassa fever in the state.

The Independent National Electoral Commission says it will begin display of voters’ register at various polling units across the state from November 6 to 12.

The Benin Zonal Command of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons rescued no fewer than 52 victims of human trafficking in the third quarter of this year.

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo has congratulated Gboyega Oyetola, Osun governor-elect, describing his victory as “hard-fought”.

The pregnant wife of the deceased, Martha Okereke, 27, told journalists that the caretaker had been threatening to deal with her late husband even before the incident.

Bishop Michael Osagie, the General Overseer of Bible Believers Ministry, says fighting over charging points in church is a sin “and against the laws of the church’’.

Osinbajo gave the admonition at the 50 years anniversary of the Church of God Mission International held in Benin on Saturday.

No fewer than 444 communities, spread across the 18 Local Government Areas of Edo are without electricity, Yekini Idaiye, the State Commissioner for Energy and Water Resources says.

A survey conducted by NAN also revealed that apart from the increase in prices of food items, meat was also not available in markets such as Uselu, Ekiosa, Oba and Egor.

A former Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has said that collaboration between the public sector, private sector and the Civil Society is essential and critical in modern policing.

The Edo Government on Tuesday said that construction work on the 20 mini stadiums it awarded would be completed by the middle of 2019.

A night inferno has destroyed property worth millions of Naira at the residence of Prof. Michael Ibadin, the immediate past Chief Medical Director, University of Benin Teaching Hospital.

The Federal Inland Revenue Service has continued its enforcement exercise, sealing off tax-defaulting companies in Lagos, Abuja and Benin.

Unidentified hoodlums on Wednesday killed a 70-year-old woman, Helen Udugbezi, at her residence in Benin, News Agency of Nigeria reports.

Chris Giwa, President of another faction of the Nigeria Football Federation, says Thursday’s Extraordinary General Assembly in Benin by the Amaju Pinnick-led NFF is not only illegal but also inconsequential.

Alex was the special guest at the University of Benin for the launch of ‘My Paddi’, a web application that helps young people interact with experts and find answers to questions on sexual health and safe practices.

Makoju stated this at the weekend during a partnership visit and plant facility tour by top officials of the Standard Organization of Nigeria to the Ibese Cement Plant of the Company in Ogun State.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the presidential aircraft that conveyed the nation’s number-two man landed at the airport at exactly 2:29pm.

Governor Godwin Obaseki made the announcement after a meeting with the leadership of the union led by its National President, Alhaji Musa Isiwele in Benin.