Pat Adakpor’s mum taught us as kids in the Iconic missionary catholic school on Airport Road, Benin city, called Emotan Primary School. Kate Adakpor was one of the eloquent Nigerian teachers who worked in a predominantly white English run school. She was beautiful, posh, and caring. She is etched in our mind of her students […]
To anyone who insists that Edo 2024 will bring the same division amongst Edos like what happened in 2020, they are clearly in dire need of a reality check. Edo 2024 is blessed with 3 good candidates. I include APC because not talking is not a crime as many people would like us to believe. […]
UK Protesters “We want our Country back”. Let the Africans come into the Conversation- from a positive angle (Especially those from the UK ethnic minority who grew up in Africa before coming to live in England and have families here) Ethnic Minority Facts in Britain. History: It is not the history that matters but […]
If there is any truth in Edo 2024 – it is that GO worked, but he made mistakes along the way. The challenge in Edo 2024 is who can continue working like GO and do better, it’s that simple. When Olumide Akpata spoke to Edo in London on his town hall meeting, the message was […]
Most Edos, from anywhere in the world, will tell you that if you are a critic of Godwin Obaseki, the response you receive from anybody near you with an opposite view is borderline abusive. It’s aggressive. They will accuse you of not seeing the things he is doing and that you do not love Edo […]
If you see Edo politicians coming to the Edo diaspora to ask for votes, it is because of two reasons. The first reason is the Edo diaspora are the ones looking after our people at home and the second reason is we are organised. Our Edo organisation in diaspora is down to some real Edo […]
It is now well known that we Benin people want our Benin Bronzes back in their spiritual home – Oba Palace, Benin-city, from where they were looted by British forces in 1897. Ten years ago, on 20 June 2014, an English man did just that. He took his inherited Benin bronzes, that had been taken […]
This is What Labour Can offer Edos (Phone Call with Labour Candidate Olu Osaigbovo Akpata) In the last months since Labour Party entered Edo2024, they have electrified the debate about Edo’s future and breathed life into the Zombie Elections of PDP & APC. Last weekend when Peter Obi entered Edo state to campaign for his […]
The Edo diaspora commission has become the darling of Edo2024 elections to all the leading parties. This is because of the impact of the diaspora to almost every Edo citizen resided in Edo State over the last 25 years. The Edo diaspora has been the survivor of Edo citizens in more ways than one over […]
I thought it was an absolute mistake last week that Gov. Godwin Obaseki announced that he has decided to buy 6 sienna buses and increase jail sentences to fight confraternity in Edo State. Clearly, he thinks this will combat a very serious problem head on. However, this is not the right approach at all considering […]