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Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a 23 year old leveler Student was brutally raped and assaulted inside a Redeemed Christian Church in Ikpoba-Hill Area in Benin City, Edo State. The perpetrators of this act are yet to be identified. Available information has it that Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, usually referred to as Uwa has been going the Church to read since the COVID-19 lock-down has affected school. She usually goes there to read in the morning hours and return in the evenings. On 27 th May, 2020, she went there to read as usual only for the family to be called later in the evening by the Assistant Pastor of the Church that Uwa was in a terrible condition. The Assistant Pastor was said to have been alerted by the Security man who usually come around in the evenings. When he saw that the door was opened, he thought that Uwa was yet to leave only for him to check and saw her breathing heavily but a closer look made him to raise alarm and put a call to the Assistant Pastor. S

Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly (EDHA), Rt. Hon. Frank Okiye, has revealed that he recovered from coronavirus (COVID-19) after 21 days in isolation without infecting anyone with the deadly virus. Okiye, while speaking to journalist in Benin City, said all he did to prevent infesting his aides, family and friends with the disease was strict adherence to government guidelines, especially those on social distancing, compulsory use of facemasks, among others. The speaker, who is the index COVID-19 case in Edo, is among the ten patients who have fully recovered and discharged after testing negative twice for the virus and treated with support from the state government. Some of the survivors were treated at the state’s isolation centres. Okiye also urged residents to complement the state government’s efforts at checking the spread of the virus by making themselves available for the ongoing screening and testing in various centres across the state. Okiye said, “I came i

Sarah Igunbor responded to 12 Questions raised on Edo What We Need platform with the response she below: 1. Need is something required for survival or to complete a task while a want can be likened to be a desire something to satisfy the need, something people desire that they may or may not be able to attain. 2. Needs assessment is very key and essential its forms the basic to which a body or an organization determines the lapses or gaps preventing them from reaching their goals, That knowing what is working well and what is not and what needs to be done or changed. The need assessment is key in progressing and its an effective tool in the sucesss of an administration or Organization. 3. If we should conduct a wants assessment now I think we would be overwhelmed by the results which would be laced with selfish interest and our desires which is far from being the Needs 4. People have same needs but different wants. Edo Needs Governor Godwin Obaseki to consolidate on the

Responding to 12 Questions on Edo What We Need  platform, Mike Osakue has these response: 1. Need is something necessary to survive while for Want we can still survive if we don't get it. 2. Needs assessment is encouraged because it is the basic hub that holds all sector be it physical or spiritual for want assessment it may just be an academic exercise which no one would feel to invest energy into seems they are mere dreams which are not Sustainable e.g Obaseki, Ize-Iyamu, Odubu Ogiemwonyi etc are all that Edo State want at the moment but in actual sense they are not Needed in the state. The Only Essential rare gem Needed for Edo State Right now is Rt, Hon. Ogbeide-Ihama. 3. If we conduct a want assessment we may end up wasted precious time and energy because we will still fall back to reality(Need) at the of the day.We may remain in one particular circle without actually moving because we are in actual sense working with mere desires or emotions which have never stood t