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  • Edo LG IGR hits N210m

    The Internally Generated Revenue of the 18 local government areas of Edo State has hit N210m monthly.

    Before the coming of Governor Godwin Obaseki, the 18 local government area could barely raise N30m monthly.

    State Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Hon Jimoh Ijegbai, who disclosed this in a chat with newsmen said the introduction of e-ticketing helped to boost revenue of the local councils.

    Ijegbai said plans were on to block leakages in the council’s revenue through the introduction of scratch cards.

    He said the scratch cards were already being test run in Ikpoba-Okha, Egor and Oredo local government areas.

    According to him, “If you look across the 18 local government areas. You will see massive infrastructural development. For the first time, Esan South East now have a transport line. They never had it before and their salaries are now regular.

    “In December, Mr. Governor approved 50 percent of their savings for grading of rural roads. We have completed work on 20 primary health centres we used as pilot scheme. We want to use technology to drive our primary health. We now have Primary Health Care Development Agency. That will enable access whatever is due to Edo from the National level.

    “Before Obaseki came in, the 18 local governments IGR was about N30m monthly but it is now oscillating between N190m to N210m. By the time we leverage on all other sources, it will improve more than. We will now be using scratch cards to block minor leakages we are seeing.”

  • Xmas: Price of children wears soars in Benin

    Ahead of the Yuletide season, prices of children wears is sky rocketing in Benin, Edo. The report said that apart from the increase in prices of children clothes, many women now buy fairly used clothes also known as `gbogbo’ or second hand clothes at bend down boutiques.

    A visit to some children shops at Ekiosa, Oba, Uselu and Egor markets on Thursday showed that majority of people now buy more of the gbogbo clothes that were not expensive.

    Mrs Alice Ehigiator, who sells children clothes, attributed the high cost to the upcoming Christmas celebration.
    She said a trouser and shirt for a baby boy which used to be N6,000 in 2017 now sells for N8,500.

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    Madam Cecilia Urewu, another trader in child wears, said majority of cloth sellers no longer buy new clothes because of the high cost.
    According to her, the prevailing market situation and the Yuletide season are also factors that contributed to the increase.

    “This year, I could not buy clothes for my children so I decided to buy `gbogbo’ which will last for long and more durable.
    “At the moment, everything is expensive, not only clothes,’’ she said.

    A customer, Ms Tina Lacoja, attributed the non-availability of customers in the market to the fact that clothes were too expensive.
    According to Tina, majority of customers no longer buy new clothes, because when they think of the cost they tend to go for a first grade gbogbo.
    She noted that the price of children wears would increase more in December due to the Christmas celebration.

    NAN

  • Egor workers nabbed for issuing fake revenue receipts

    Two revenue enforcement workers of the Egor Local Government Area of Edo State have been arrested for issuing fake receipt to unsuspected commercial drivers.

    The sum of N280,000 believed to have been realised from the sale of ticket was recovered from the suspects identified as Monday Esewi and Iyoha Osagie.

    Governor Godwin Obaseki had last year introduced e-ticketing as a means of collecting revenue by government officials.

    Luck ran out of the two suspects when the council boss, Ms. Eghe Ogbemudia, accosted a commercial driver and demanded to know whether he has paid the approved daily payment of N800.

    Ogbemudia was shocked to see the ticket provided by the driver was different from the official receipt.

    The council boss led other official to Uselu Market where the driver said he obtained the ticket from and discovered several booklets of fake receipt in the possession of the suspects.

    She further discovered that the usually began the sale of fake tickets at 6am before resuming at the council secretariat at 8am to collect the genuine receipts.

    In a chat with newsmen, Ogbemudia said it was shocking for her to know that the people she empowered with jobs would be the ones to destroy the system.

    According to her, “We discovered cash and fake receipts booklets from the two revenue enforcers. It was a driver that told me he bout the tickets at Uselu Market.”

    The suspects however denied selling fake tickets to commercial motorists.

    According to Monday,”Those receipts are not fake. They were given to us by staff of the local council.

    Iyoha said, “I was shocked when they said the receipts are fake. All the tickets I sell everyday are collected from the council secretariat.”

  • ‘Why I want to represent Ikpoba-Okha/Egor’

    A retired naval officer, Andrew Agbonwanegbe, who is contesting for the House of Representatives in Ikpoba-Okha/Egor Constituency, has promised to uplift rural communities, if elected.

    The All Progressive Congress chieftain appealed to the party leadership to adhere to its promise to provide a level-playing field for aspirants at the  primaries.

    He advised the party to present the best candidate on the basis of his credibility, accessibility and loyalty.

    Agbonwanegbe promised to bring his experience and education to bear on legislative duties and foster as  by-partisan relationship that will lead to the passages of bills that will impact positively on the constituency.

    He promised to initiate bills on  effective health care delivery, electricity, water, and infrastructural development

    The aspirant said: ‘’One thing you must give to  the APC is that it is a fair party. It is only for everybody,s interest for that to happened. I don’t think we are going to look at others and do the same thing.

    “Once you get out of fairness you bring out rancor and that is not good for the contest ahead, we are going to hold the party on its promise to provide level play ground for all’’

    “We have paid our dues. We have helped to built the structures and helped to stabilize the party. I believe the APC will field its best. I come with fresh hands. You have to be accessible, credible and loyal. I have enough education and experience. We will make our party proud. This is contest between brothers and sisters. The people know that we mean well.”

  • Edo LG polls: ACN wins in 7 areas

    Edo LG polls: ACN wins in 7 areas

    Edo State Independent Electoral Commission (EDSIEC) on Sunday announced results of Saturday’s council polls in seven of the 14 local government areas, where the exercise took place.

    The commission had earlier cancelled the exercise in four local government areas of Oredo, Ikpoba-Okha, Esan West and Esan North-East due to logistic problems.

    It, however, said the exercise would hold in Esan West and Esan North-East on Wednesday, and on Thursday in Oredo and Ikpoba Okha local government areas.

    Announcing the results, The chairman of the commission, Chief Solomon Ogoh, said the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) won in all the seven local government areas.

    The areas are Orhionmwon, Egor, Akoko-Edo, Estako East, Estako-Central, Esan-South-East and Igueben

    In Orhionmwon, ACN won with 29,059 votes as against PDP’s 5,843 votes, while in Egor, ACN pulled 10,151 votes as against the PDP’s 1,951 votes.

    In Igueben local government area, ACN got 16,298 votes, while PDP scored 1,592 and in Estako East, ACN had 23,262 votes as against PDP’s 4,281 votes.

    Similarly, in Estako Central, ACN won with 9,293 votes and PDP got only 4,359 votes, while in Esan South-East, ACN scored 14,145 votes to defeat PDP, which got 2,776.

    In Akoko-Edo, ACN scored 41,496 votes to beat the rival PDP, which got 5,171 votes.

    The commission had earlier cleared six political parties, ACN, PDP, ANPP, CPC, LP and and AP to participate in the polls.

    However, The PDP and ANPP, on Sunday described the election as a “sham” and called for its cancellation.

    The ANPP Deputy National Chairman, Chief Solomon Edebiri, called for the immediate resignation of the chairman of the commission for incompetence.

    He also called on Gov. Adams Oshiomhole to redeem his name as the defender of democracy by sacking the chairman for “gross incompetence’’.

    The chairman of PDP, Dan Orbih, also called for the cancellation of the exercise, saying the ruling ACN manipulated the commission in its favour.