A chieftain of the ADC in Edo State, and two term Owan West LGA Chairman of Owan West, Hon Daniel Asekhame, has commiserated with the family of the two, just-graduated students of the Ambrose Alli University, who got involved in a fatal accident in Ekpoma yesterday. The unfortunate incident happened along the Benin - Auchi road in Ekpoma. The students, who were celebrating their graduation from the University, collided fatally with a stationery truck on the road. Hon Asekhame, who himself is a graduate of the Ambrose Alli University, said he empathises deeply with the parents of the students, one of whom have been confirmed to have passed on, while the other one is in critical condition at a hospital. He acknowledged that they will almost be inconsolable at this point, but urged them to take heart and submit to the situation they have found themselves in at this time. He prayed that God would grant them the courage and fortitude to bear the irreparable loss. The...
EDO NORTH SAYS NO TO OSHIOMHOLE SECOND TERM By Hon. Daniel Asekhame | Prime News The political atmosphere in Edo North is steadily stabilizing, but beneath that calm lies a firm and unmistakable resolve among the people: justice must prevail, and equity must be restored. This is not merely political rhetoric—it is the collective voice of a people determined to defend a long-standing rotational principle that has guided representation in the district. For decades, Edo North has operated a fair and balanced arrangement among its three major blocs—Etsako, Akoko Edo, and Owan. This understanding has ensured inclusion, reduced tension, and promoted unity. Etsako has taken its turn. Akoko Edo has also fulfilled its part. Today, by every moral and political standard, it is the turn of Owan to produce the senator representing Edo North. However, this natural progression has been disrupted. The emergence and continued hold on power by Adams Oshiomhole is widely seen by many as a direc...
Nigeria is currently engulfed in a major crisis of intergroup relations that is rooted in the politics of economic survival but which is often easily exploited by the elite. The latest theatre of such madness is in the Northwest state of Zamfara where towns and villages are attacked, almost on a daily basis, by armed bandits while the vigilante groups brought in by the helpless communities to help restore order are either being exterminated or are themselves engaging in extra judicial killings. With villages being deserted and a growing resort to self-help in the face of what looks like organized crime, there are serious threats to our national economy and security that many Nigerians are not paying adequate attention to. The violence in Zamfara State is particularly difficult for “outsiders” to understand, especially when the people many of us had always assumed to be one and the same are now killing one another. That perhaps explains why most of the reportage of the or...
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