Ahead of tomorrow’s Presidential and National Assembly elections, Akoko-Edo Liaison Officer, Hon Jeffrey Obasanmi has called on security agencies and traditional rulers to find ways of securing the local government. Addressing stakeholders in his office at the council Secretariat yesterday, Obasanmi noted that ‘a secured environment is a peaceful environment […]
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Akoko-Edo local government Liaison officer Hon Jeffrey Obasanmi has flagged off the construction of water borehole projects to mitigate water challenges in the area. Speaking at Akuku, Onumu and Ogugu communities in the LGA, the Liaison officer disclosed that the provision of clean portable water was critical to the survival […]
By Olisa Moses. As a student of comparative development and public wealth, a member of Akoko-Edo Economic and Investment Summit planning committee, I bring it to this honourable house that Akoko-Edo is up for sale with the highest bidders working day and night to have a good returns on their […]
The Rt.Hon. Peter Akpatason held a town hall session with members of the Akoko-Edo Federal Constituency in his bid to represent the people for a fourth term in the National Assembly. In a bold pledge at the well-attended “meet the contestants series” organized by the Akoko-Edo Development Association (aka Akoko-Edo […]
The Acting Chairman Akoko Edo Local Government Area, Dr Innocent Alenoghena has called on mothers to regularly present their children for vaccination against childhood killer diseases. He made the call in Igarra on Friday at the flag-off of the “2nd Outbreak Response’’ (OBR2) to the circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Virus. […]
Editor’s note: Apart from serving as a link between primary and tertiary education, secondary schools provide opportunity for the pupil to acquire additional knowledge, skills and traits beyond the primary level. In this three-part picture report, Akoko-Edo Community newspaper editor, Albert Afeso Akanbi and a correspondent a paper, Kehinde Ikoghene […]
As part of efforts to sensitize students in Akoko-Edo Local Government, the NYSC Education CDS group has embarked on a familiarization tour to Ikpeshi Grammar School to educate and sensitize students on various topics such as personal hygiene, respect for elders, importance of education and self development, career choice and […]
Akoko-Edo Local Government has emerged the overall best performing local Government Council in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in Edo State. This feat that has won the Local Government both the Executive Secretary of the Primary Health Care Development Agency prize, and the Honourable Commissioner for Health award for […]
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 […]