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Human rights activist Chief Ms Priscilla Ikogheneone Usiobaifo has been conferred with a traditional title in Edo State, recognizing her two decades of advocacy for women’s rights and rural development.
The Oba of Benin on Thursday directed traditional worshippers, priests, priestesses and palace physicians to invoke ancestral justice against kidnappers, violent criminals and their collaborators. The ceremony reflected growing public anxiety over insecurity in Edo State and across Nigeria, while underscoring the enduring role of traditional institutions in communal life.
A disagreement over a girl at a burial party following Ogute-Oke community's annual Olimi festival in Edo State escalated into a fatal cutlass attack and reprisal arson, leaving one man dead, seven houses destroyed and an entire community in mourning.
