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Governor Okpebholo Gives Free Shops For Traders At Reconstructed Oba Market

Edo State Governor Monday Okpebholo has assured traders affected by the Oba Market fire that shops in the rebuilt market will be allocated free of charge.

During an inspection tour in Benin City with top government and APC leaders, the governor said genuine traders and former occupants would get their shops back at no cost. He added that traders operating outside will be moved inside for a safer, weather-protected environment.

The reconstructed market features modern, fire-resistant structures designed to prevent future disasters.

Watch the video below to see the full announcement and traders’ reactions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfib77fveXk

This guy . I am beginning to like him.

Let's see the edit. It is needed

This is a good initiative if it happens to be true.


The government must do somethings for its citizens for free.

Everything shouldn’t be about making money.

leanonme82:
This guy . I am beginning to like him.

Are you in that state ?? Because if those people greet you good morning it maybe night

gr8dom:
Let's see the edit. It is needed

Make them show us the full building not half of it. Like stand across the road and snap the full market .. I WAN CHECK SOMETHING

Electioneering Free Gifts better than 2k or half bag of Rice for 4 years...

Oba market, the place where I grew up.

I remember the very first day the gates of this gigantic market was open then as a kid.

I remember how my Friends and I used to wander all through the market playing as kids..

I remember hawking inside this market, then transverse to Lagos street, mission road just to make ends meet.

The environment where I grew up makes me discard the believe that your environment influences your character and behavior. The environment where I grew up around Oba market (Ogbe quarters) was at a time known for notorious activities in the whole of Benin but I wasn't carried away one bit.

Pikin when e go spoil go still spoil no matter the environment he/she grows up.

In everything, I thank God for life.

leanonme82:
This guy . I am beginning to like him.

Him no send u say , make u like am

Sphinx419:
Make them show us the full building not half of it. Like stand across the road and snap the full market .. I WAN CHECK SOMETHING

U will wailed tired .....

Bad belle pple ....

Dats y ur friends dey runaway from U

Well! Until 2027, they'll start paying

How many teachers have been employed by this progressive governor for the free education of all the children of the market people?

Has he employed up to the 19,500 that Makinde did

Babasessy:
The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.

It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.

So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history.  Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.

He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.

In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.

In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.

Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.

Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.

The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off.  But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.

I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.

                                                                             http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html

Sphinx419:
Make them show us the full building not half of it. Like stand across the road and snap the full market .. I WAN CHECK SOMETHING

No be must them show you everything. Bloggers have lots of news to dispense and sometimes they just wanna work fast..

You also go school and you sabi use internet. The video dey on different social Apps. Go search and watch to satisfy yourself..

They said he is an illiterate but doing what the so called professors can't do in 8 years.

Na English we wan chop?

Anytime you hear the word “free”? Please run o. Mostly when it is coming from an APC govt.

SecuritybriefNg:
Governor Okpebholo Gives Free Shops For Traders At Reconstructed Oba Market

One of the person that followed the governor said that you can only compare the building to a magnificent building in Dubai.
Them don start again oo.

Sheuns:
This is a good initiative if it happens to be true.


The government must do somethings for its citizens for free.

Everything shouldn’t be about making money.

Obidients will rubbish this because its being done by apc!! While obi couldn't even give free education in his 8 yrs as gov

Evergreen4:
Oba market, the place where I grew up.

I remember the very first day the gates of this gigantic market was open then as a kid.

I remember how my Friends and I used to wander all through the market playing as kids..

I remember hawking inside this market, then transverse to Lagos street, mission road just to make ends meet.

In everything, I thank God for life.

Was tinubu the president then? According to obidients nah tinubu time hardship start for naija.....just asking!!

Starhearts:
U will wailed tired .....

Bad belle pple ....

Dats y ur friends dey runaway from U

Learn to spell well son of man... are you sure your bro is still around

Lets see the edit.

Thanks to Governor Amuneke

miniziter:
Anytime you hear the word “free”? Please run o. Mostly when it is coming from an APC govt.

Even if they paid 200k each for those shops its still welfare for the citizens which is a duty of govt,any govt that can do such should be given kudos!!

Keep your rent oOoOO, even founder of Lagos dey deal with us

SecuritybriefNg:
Governor Okpebholo Gives Free Shops For Traders At Reconstructed Oba Market

Other Governors Should Emulate This.
Watch the video below to see the full announcement and traders’ reactions.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfib77fveXk

Evergreen4:
Oba market, the place where I grew up.

I remember the very first day the gates of this gigantic market was open then as a kid.

I remember how my Friends and I used to wander all through the market playing as kids..

I remember hawking inside this market, then transverse to Lagos street, mission road just to make ends meet.

In everything, I thank God for life.

Levels must change, bless up 🙏📌💯👌🙌

Pat081:
Are you in that state ?? Because if those people greet you good morning it maybe night

the news disappoint you. I know you want to hear bad news, but God pass una.

anonimi:
How many teachers have been employed by this progressive governor for the free education of all the children of the market people?

Has he employed up to the 19,500 that Makinde did

Why are you comparing him with Makinde? Why is it difficult for you to compare him with your agulu failure when he governed Anambra. How many teachers did he employ as governor since he turned Anambra to mini Dubai?

Sphinx419:
Learn to spell well son of man... are you sure your bro is still around

Who dey supply u drug ....

Change ur drug supplier

Nothing goes for nothing, u can't eat ur cake and have it at the same time.
I'm admiring the gov. efforts he can do more than this.

Emekaonline:
Why are you comparing him with Makinde? Why is it difficult for you to compare him with your agulu failure when he governed Anambra. How many teachers did he employ as governor since he turned Anambra to mini Dubai?

Are you labouring in vain to deflect from the failures of progressive governor okphebolo