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Senator Imasuen Empowers Edo South Farmers With Farm Implements
The Senator representing Edo South Senatorial District, Neda Imasuen has appealed to farmers to make good use of implements given to them to enable them to sustain their families, and the nation at large.
Imasuen, who made the appeal at a training organised for his constituent members in Benin City, also urged them not to sell the farm tools given to them.
According to the federal lawmaker, essence of the event was to reduce the price of food in the market.
Imasuen, while adding that the essence of the event was to empower his constituents of being farmers and producers, appealed to them to pay proper attention to the various speakers at the programme.
He also urged them to ensure they make good use of the knowledge they acquire during the training.
“This items we are giving you, some time I was told that when farm implements are giving this way, people go to the market and resell them. I hope that will not be the case here. You are to take the full benefits of what we are providing for you today.
” So, it is my wish and prayers that God goes with you, and helps you with wisdom and understanding to do all that you can do to help us build local government, state and the nation as a whole.
“The programme is very important for me because it is a programme, in my opinion, we use to empower our farmers to do more in what they do in their farms.
“So, we don’t want to do it for one day, doing the programme for two days is to make sure the message gets down to the farmers.
“The programme is also to make sure that all that they need to learn about is given to them.
“I am satisfied and happy for what I have seen, especially, to the participation of the farmers, and their own way of receiving it.
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“Again, it is my hope that they will utilise the farming implements and insecticides given to them.
“So that the farmers can improve and increase their farm yields all for the betterment of their families, community, state and the nation at large,” the lawmaker added.
In her lecture, one of the resource persons and agribusiness expert, Iretiolu Odi, told the farmers to see their occupation as a business that they can make more profit from.
Odi, an agribusiness development consultant, told the farmers to see themselves as important that would feed their families and the nation.
She disclosed that, farmers are the richest people on earth, that they should see what they can add to what the senator had given to them to boost their farming business.
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She gave them some keys to managing their farms, which included planning, recording, finance, profit and others knowledge that will be useful to them.
The agric expert, while urging them to look for an avenue to make more profit in agriculture, appealed to them to make good use of the opportunity to enable their children take over the farming trade from them.
Odi equally commended the Senator for empowering his constituents.
Educating the farmers on how to apply chemicals in their crops, Mr. Lekan Salami, said farming is the only way Nigeria can survive.
He asserted that various chemicals given to them have minimum usage required after adding water to it, before they can use it to spray their crops.
The farm implements given to the farmers included: rain-boots, cutlasses, insecticides, sharping files, hand gloves and hoes.
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Court Bars CCETC From Entering Ossiomo Land, Using Its Property
An Edo State High Court in Benin has restrained Jiangsu Communication Clean Energy Technology Company Limited (CCETC) from entering the land of Ossiomo Power and Infrastructure Company
Limited pending the hearing and determination of motion of notice.
Hon. Justice Mary Itsueli—vacation judge, gave the restraining order in an ex-perte motion filed before the Honourable Court by Emmanuel Usoh, counsel to Ossiomo Power and Infrastructure Company
Limited.
In the suit marked: B/242/2025, Ossiomo Investment Limited, Ossiomo Power and Infrastructure Company
Limited, Ossiomo Offsites and Utility Limited, Quadrant Gas Development Company Limited are the claimants while Jiangsu Communication Clean Energy Technology Company Limited (CCETC) stands as defendant.
Usoh had, on behalf of Ossiomo Ossiomo Power and Infrastructure Company
Limited, approached the court, sought an interim injunction restraining CCETC from gaining access to the land or utilising any property belonging to the claimant.
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Usoh sought an interim order restraining “the Defendant whether by itself, agents, representatives, Directors, staff, privies assigns, or anyone directly or otherwise and howsoever described from parading itself as a member or a shareholder of the 2nd Claimant or relying o using the Joint Venture Agreement pending the hearing and determination o the Motion on Notice.”
In the enrollment of order dated September 11, 2025, Justice Itsueli, said having “given a most careful consideration to the application, supporting affidavit and annexures, I am minded to grant the interim order of injunction.”
The vacation judge, therefore, ordered that, “The Defendant whether by itself, privies, assigns and anyone directly or otherwise and howsoever described are restrained from accessing, utilizing the infrastructure of the Claimants including the 33KVA lines, gas engines and gas infrastructure built by the Claimants to supply gas to the power plant and generate electricity supply whether by bulk sales or transmission to corporate entities or individuals in Edo State pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice already filed.”
Hon. Itsueli also ordered “the Defendant whether by itself, agents, representatives, Directors, staff, privies, assigns, or anyone directly or otherwise and howsoever described are restrained from parading themselves member or shareholder of the 2nd Claimant or relying or using the Joint Venture Agreement pending the pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice already filed.”
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Recall that Ossiomo Power and Infrastructure Company
Limited and CCETC have been in ownership tussle which led to the power plant being shut down on September 1, 2025.
Speaking during a press briefing on the latest in the power tussle between Ossiomo and its investment partners, Usoh said, CCETC, having aware of the restraining order, had so far approached the arbitrary panel in Singapore.
He said: “CCETC, being aware of the restraining order, also immediately approached the arbitrary panel for arbitration in Singapore. The rationale behind this update is for the whole world to know that Singapore, being the seat of economics arbitration globally, is aware of the issues happening between Ossiomo and CCETC. We had the opportunity of seeing the copy of the arbitration, and we are replying accordingly.”
On Ossiomo and Edo State Government, Usoh disclosed: “Our relationship with the Edo State Government is what we call Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). Ossiomo develops power and sells to Edo State Government at market value. They are our landlord, we cannot owe grudge against the government. My appeal to the government is to do business with us so that everyone in Edo will benefit.”
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IPF Celebrates Otuaro On His Birthday Anniversary
The Ijaw Publishers’ Forum (IPF) has felicitated with Chief Dr. Dennis Otuaro, Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, on the occasion of his birthday.
A statement issued by the secretary of the body, Tare Magbei, commended Otuaro for his “steady leadership of the Presidential Amnesty Programme,” which according to the forum has “continued to strengthen peace, rehabilitation, and development in the Niger Delta.”
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“Your efforts in providing opportunities for ex-agitators and in advancing stability across the region stand as clear evidence of your dedication to the people and progress of our land.
“As you mark this new year of life, we join your family, friends, and well-wishers in praying for good health, wisdom, and greater success in the service of the Niger Delta and Nigeria.”
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JUST IN: Okpehbolo Appoints New VC For AAU
Edo State governor, Monday Okpehbolo, has approved the appointment of Professor (Mrs.) Eunice Eboserehimen Omonzejie as the new Vice-Chancellor of the state-owned Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma.
A statement issued late night by Secretary to the State Government, Umar Musa Ikhilor, said her appointment takes immediate effect.
According to the statement, Prof. Omonzejie was appointed amongst the three names submitted by the Governing Council of the university to the state government.
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The statement partly reads, “Professor (Mrs.) Eunice Eboserehimen Omonzejie
Professor Omonzejie is a distinguished scholar of French and Francophone African Literatures and a long-serving academic in the Department of Modern Languages at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma.
“She is a prolific researcher and editor, with contributions to African and Francophone literary studies, gender studies, and cultural studies.
“She has served as the President of the Ambrose Alli University Chapter of the National Association of Women Academics (NAWACS), where she has championed mentoring, research, and advocacy for female academics and students.
“Professor Omonzejie has co-edited several seminal works including French Language in Nigeria: Essays in Honour of UFTAN Pacesetters and Language Matters in Contemporary West Africa, and is the author of Women Novelists in Francophone Black Africa: Views, Reviews and Interviews,” the statement added.
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