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Today I took a trip to Benin from Auchi after a seemingly long while since I’ve had to ply the highway and today’s experience was quite different from previous scenarios where I’d have to wish nothing should make me travel by land via the instrumentality of a bus or whatever vehicle again. This time I have no energy left after wasting four solid hours en route Auchi to Benin. I could only grumble in sheer exhaustion and irritation. I am not going to bore you with the sad story of how my body aches but permit me to share from how bad to worse land travel has become in the South-South using the highway in view _Auchi/Benin expressway. Auchi to Benin is about 134.4 kilometers of approximately two hours fifteen minutes ride (if one decide to cut the driver some slack) and used to cost five hundred Naira as at the time I started traveling (in my JSS3 days) up until I had my Ordinary National Diploma. Just before you started feeling tired from sitting in one position, the bypas

On Edo Politics Today Victor Okhaimo has this to say THE CURRENT EDO POLITICAL IMPASSE – WHERE I STAND: The political atmosphere in Edo State in the past few weeks assumed a very interesting dimension wherein one is forced to do a critical appraisal and thorough assessment of the situation before taking sides or charting any course. I  have been inundated with numerous calls and messages seeking to know my stand and viewpoint from the alleged thugs invasion of Edo University Iyamoh, to the disagreement between Adams Oshiomhole and his estranged political godson and finally to the decamping of Pastor Osagie Ize Iyamu who everyone knows is my political leader to whom I accord great respect and for whom I made enormous though unsuccessful sacrifices to see his emergence as Governor of Edo State in 2016. Firstly, the action of some political enthusiasts and loyalists of a faction of the APC wherein the prestigious Edo University Iyamoh was invaded on the day of its maiden convocat