The Management of Akoko Edo Community Publishing Ltd, publishers of Akoko Edo Community Newspaper announces with deep sorrow, the passing onto glory of one of its Directors, Barrister Akeens Ade-Akhani. An illustrious son of Akoko-Edo LGA, Barr. Ade-Akhani died in Benin City, the capital Edo of State, Nigeria, on Saturday […]
Akoko-Edo Update
The people of Erhurun community in Akoko-Edo LGA of Edo State, on Thursday 30th June and Friday 1st July, in a solemn ceremony, bade one of their foremost and illustrious son farewell. Late Akeens Ade-Akhani was born on 9th August, 1960 and died on Saturday 19th March, 2022 while playing […]
Editor’s Note: “Death comes for us all; …even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. It is the law of nature, and the will of […]
Igarra, Edo State – At a recent meeting with critical stakeholders from Akoko-Edo Federal Constituency, the Hon. Commissioner for Education, Dr. Joan Oviawe, assuaged the Constituency people and said a campus of a tertiary institution will soon come to the LGA. The session was jointly organized by Akoko-Edo Forum and […]
Igarra, Edo State – At a recent meeting with critical stakeholders from Akoko-Edo Federal Constituency, the Hon. Commissioner for Education, Dr. Joan Oviawe, assuaged the Constituency people and said a campus of a tertiary institution will soon come to the LGA. The session was jointly organized by Akoko-Edo Forum and […]
With over 262,000 people according to the 2006 population census, many of whom have made their mark in all fields of human endevour, with 10 large political wards, over 13 clans and 16 sub-clans, over 50 towns and communities, abundant human and natural resources, a rich and diverse cultural heritage […]
Editor’s note: Recall that in our last edition of your favorite Akoko-Edo publication, we had commenced the first part in a triple series beginning with Ososo Grammar School, Ososo, in our promise to unveil the rot in what has become of our educational system, nay the facilities, across the length […]
Please Note: Among various communities around the entire world, throughout history, at one point or the other, even in these modern times, we have seen cultural practices and taboos that later generations have described as barbaric. Ososo land, a community caught within the undulating Somorika hills of Akoko-Edo LGA has […]