------condemned impeachment of Deputy Speaker By Our Correspondent Benin City: A group known as the Concern Esan Sons and Daughters coalition has condemned the impeachment of the Edo Deputy Speaker, Rt. Hon. Victor Edoror, and called for the immediate resignation of the speaker, Rt. Hon. Kabiru Adjoto, saying the position belongs to the Esan nation. Speaking on behalf of the group, Prince Roy Oribhabor said thus: "Our attention has been drawn to the impeachment of the Deputy Speaker of Edo State House of Assembly, Hon. Victor Edoror by the State House of Assembly and the subsequent replacement of Hon. Justine Okonobo. "We reject this impeachment. With the political arrangement on ground in the state, and in the spirit of oneness, the three principal offices were shared within the three senatorial districts. Now that, the South is the Governor, Deputy Governor from the North, its proper to elect and nominate person from Central to be the Speaker. Therefore, impeaching the ...

By, Elvis Omoregie Benin City: Peoples Democratic Party, United Kingdom (UK) chapter, at the weekend, called on the winner of the just concluded party's presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar to bring to bear his wealth of experience as former vice president to rescue the nation from the economy doldrums if elected president in the forthcoming presidential election. This was contained in press statement signed by its interim chairman, Mr. Osahon Igiebor and nine others and made available to newsmen in Benin City. According to him"A big congratulations to the Waziri of Adamawa, His Excellency Atiku Abubakar for his emergency as the flagbearer of great party, Peoples Democratic Party. Your selfless service to your fatherland has not gone unnoticed and here finally is your chance to bring prosperity to our nation and succour to the masses. "We are confident that you can bring to bear your wealth of experience as the country's former vice president and also you...

By Isaac Eranga Benin City: A House of Representatives candidate under the umbrella of the Peoples Party of Nigeria (PPN), in the 2019 general elections, Hon. Mrs. Ebun Tracy Agol of the Etsako Federal constituency, has promised to bring equal representation of all regions in the constituency if elected as their representative in the Federal House of Representatives. She said her constituency had lacked equal representation since the beginning of democratic era in Nigeria. Hon. Ebun Agol said to make this possible, she will evolve regular town hall meetings involving the various regions of the constituency. This according to her, will help in feeling the people’s pulse, that is, knowing what they think and need. “The town hall meetings will help as an effective feedback mechanism in a bid to determining the actual needs of the people. “Though the representatives make laws, our role is to ensure that bills passed are favourable to the people by joining voices to oth...

By Isaac Eranga The DREIN (Deepening Research Ethics in Nigeria ) Project consortium consists of 4 organizations, they are: National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control. (NAFDAC), Center for Bioethics and Research Nigeria. (CBR), Council on Health Research for Development South Africa, (COHRED). National Health Research Ethics Committee of Nigeria (NHREC). The workplan in this project is joint action by the drug regulatory agency and ethics regulatory agency in Nigeria to enhance their joint roles and build their capacity for mutual ethical oversight of research in Nigeria. In fulfilment of this action, the regulatory agencies jointly implement and further the goals of the Nigerian Clinical Trials Registry through joint trainings, seminars, workshops and meetings. They partner with Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) for provision and training on their proprietary electronic health research ethics review platform, RHInnO Ethics to institutional resea...

By Isaac Eranga Benin City: As part of engaging political office seekers in the 2019 General Elections on good governance, a workshop on mainstreaming accountability into electoral process in the Niger Delta has been held recently in Benin under the auspices of the Social Action, a nationally registered non governmental organisation in Nigeria. In an open remark, a Programme Officer of the NGO, Comrade Botti Isaac said the idea was to mobilize active citizens to start engaging political parties' candidates by getting them to commit to certain agendas that will bring about good governance. "The project is about promoting accountability and commitment. What we do is to go to them and extract commitment from them which are documented to form terms of reference. In other words, it is a process of initiating social contract with them", Comrade Isaac said. Giving an overview of the project, Comrade Sebastian said the training was meant to promote responsibility amongst part...

Edo State Commissioner for Employment and Wealth Creation, Hon. Emmanuel Usoh is alleged to have been circulating fake World Bank sponsored project (SEEFOR) employment form to deceive youth voters in Edo Central Senatorial District. Representatives of the All Progressives Congress in the district who pleaded anonymity said a call has been made to the State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki to investigate the alleged role of the top government official. Stay tuned for development on this matter

Emerging analysis has revealed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senatorial and House of Representatives candidates in Edo State may regrettably loose to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 General Elections. Informed political analysis suggest that the leadership of APC is imposing very weak candidates on members at the grassroots level. More details analysis later