{"id":82077,"date":"2026-01-24T06:09:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82077"},"modified":"2026-01-24T06:09:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:09:50","slug":"edo-begins-return-of-2950-plots-to-property-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/24\/edo-begins-return-of-2950-plots-to-property-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Edo Begins Return of 2,950 Plots to Property Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Edo State Government has commenced the issuance of allocation letters for the return of 2,950 plots of land at Oke-Oroma Community in Benin City, bringing an end to a prolonged land dispute affecting about 1,550 property owners.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists on Friday, the Commissioner for Land and Housing, Yakubu Musa, said the exercise followed the approval of Governor Monday Okpebholo and was preceded by a one-week verification of affected property owners.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the process restores hope to residents whose properties were demolished on September 21, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Musa said the initiative underscores the government\u2019s commitment to resolving the dispute and addressing the grievances of those impacted.<\/p>\n<p>Beneficiaries, including Adebayo Ogenelkhemeh, Onose Onyegbulem, and Efe Ewemade, thanked the state government, describing Governor Okpebholo as a restorer of hope for keeping his campaign promises.<\/p>\n<p>The earlier demolitions had sparked political tensions between the APC and PDP in Edo State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Edo State Government has commenced the issuance of allocation letters for the return of 2,950 plots of land at Oke-Oroma Community in Benin City, bringing an end to a prolonged land dispute affecting about 1,550 property owners. Speaking to journalists on Friday, the Commissioner for Land and Housing, Yakubu Musa, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82079,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82077\/revisions\/82079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}