By, Dr. Patrick Akhere Ebojele Governor Monday Okpebholo is taking a very aggressive approach to the state’s security challenges, combining faster emergency response, community intelligence, traditional security structures and expanded

Bu Paul Okojie On May 29, 2023, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced that “fuel subsidy is gone.” The decision was presented as painful but necessary. Nigerians were told that the

By,Dr. Patrick Akhere Ebojele When Governor Monday Okpebholo took office in November 2024, his inaugural messaging centered on five pillars: Security, Healthcare, Infrastructure, Natural Resources and Agriculture, and Education. To

By,Dr, Patrick Akhere Ebojele In 1991 General Ibrahim Babangida regime, carved Edo State out of the old Bendel state and that was beginning its peculiar journey — neither entirely in

By Paul Omo Okojie The argument that Edo State requires a more consolidated approach to public revenue management is, on the surface, difficult to dispute. Government revenue should not be

Eben Enasco In the hallowed halls of democracy, three arms were designed to stand apart, yet watch each other. The Executive, the Legislature, and the Judiciary. But in Edo today,

By,Dr. Patrick Akhere Ebojele Governor Monday Okpebholo has renewed his commitment to strengthen financial discipline, reduce revenue leakages and ensure that money generated by government institutions is properly accounted for.

Paul Okojie There are moments in a nation’s political journey when a single utterance ceases to belong to the individual who made it and instead becomes a mirror held up

Paul Okojie. The recent appointment of special advisers  by the Edo State Governor is commendable to bolster his service to the citizens of Edo state, but it comes with a

By, Dr. Patrick Akhere Ebojele One topic that is less discussed when problems of governance in Nigeria come up, is the seeming long distance between government and the governed. In