Edo State

Electricity supply across Edo, Delta, Ondo and Ekiti states was disrupted on Monday after workers under the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) shut down critical facilities of BEDC Electricity Plc over a dispute involving emoluments and welfare packages

The Edo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested an 85-year-old woman, Grace Ehimeka, popularly known as “Mama Grace”, after operatives allegedly recovered 15 bags of cannabis weighing 179 kilogrammes from her residence.

50 persons have been officially confirmed dead, and 70 others are receiving treatment in four local hospitals following the explosion of a petrol tanker at Oluku along the Benin-Lagos Expressway in Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Edo State.

The tanker, which was loaded with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), reportedly fell earlier in the day and spilt its contents around the busy Oluku market area.

Uwuigbe, a lecturer in the Faculty of Medical Laboratory Science, was said to have died on Monday, October 5, 2026, at a hotel in the Mosco area of Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government Area of the state.

The Houses of Assembly in Osun, Edo, Oyo and Rivers have endorsed the proposed constitutional amendment seeking to establish state police across Nigeria, a major policing reform currently before state legislatures.

An Edo State Special Criminal Court sitting in Benin City has sentenced four persons to death by hanging or lethal injection for their involvement in the kidnapping of a woman at the Vegetable Market along Airport Road in the state capital.

His family formally announced his passing in a statement signed by Francis Udukhomoi Orbih, Esq., on behalf of the Orbih family. The family said the announcement was made “with profound sadness and a heavy heart but in total submission to the will of the Almighty God.”

Edo and Ondo states are off-cycle for the governorship only. But the Houses of Assembly flow with the regular four -year pattern.

The Edo State Government has disowned a declaration by Governor Monday Okpebholo’s media aide that Davido had been banned from entering the state or performing there for the remainder of the governor’s administration. Okpebholo’s Senior Special Assistant on...