Sulaiman Aledeh is the self-effacing managing director of Edo Broadcasting Service (EBS), Benin.

In a superlative way, you can say Aledeh is broadcasting and broadcasting is Aledeh. Indeed, he eats, sleeps, talks, breathes and walks broadcasting which is like oxygen support to him.

Despite his busy office schedule, he regularly takes part in the EBS Morning Drive programme to share his purposeful insights on trending news around the world in an informative, educative and entertaining way.

On the 5th of October, 2025, the veteran broadcaster Aledeh was once again in the studio for the morning drive programme with a smoking kalasnikov firing from the hip.

To start with, he took Edo-GIS to the cleaners for its poor showings in rebutting the story of a 17 years old boy acquiring Certificate of Occupancy for 14, 000 hectares of land from EdoGIS. Yet the extant law disqualifies him from doing so on grounds of being underage.

Aledeh explains that his global experience in public relations practice teaches that EdoGIS should have first acknowledged the existence of the story in circulation whether it was true or false.

Thereafter, the agency can then say it has checked its records and there is no documentary evidence such an illegal transaction occured.

He observed that Tunde Egbiremolen who heads the Public Affairs Department of EdoGIS is a fine gentleman on the job. All the same, he has a corporate responsibility to rewrite the rebuttal press release in the correct way.

He should realize that it is no use, pointed out Aledeh, wishing away the story in contention as a mere malicious rumour except he wants us to believe the governor acted on the rumour to suspend the issuance of Certificate of Occupancy.

Also, while contributing to the morning drive show Aledeh recounted that as an eyewitness there was no time Governor Monday Okpebholo prescribed Asiwaju Cap dress code for Edo State executive council members at the swearing in of new commissioners at Government House, Benin.

According to Aledeh, the governor only cracked a joke to enliven the gathering. On seeing a top federal official enter the venue without the cap, the governor with a jocular smile expressed surprise that the official was not wearing an Asiwaju Cap like him. The governor's banter drew laughter. Finito. End of matter.

Nothing more. The ceremony continued in the New Festival Hall filled with people in multi cultural choreographed dress codes. Given this, Aledeh wondered aloud how the person who posted a story on social media that the state governor has directed that state executive members must wear Asiwaju Cap to their meetings and public occasions.

It was all lies, Aledeh insisted. Don't believe the social media report. It is propaganda.

In his reaction to another trending news of the restructuring of the public service that led to outright sacks, redeployments and appointments, Aledeh eulogised the state governor for the exercise he dubbed as brilliant. He enthused that the governor has a third eye and is a fisher of men for selecting his team as well as assigning portfolios to them.

Without mincing words, he threw his weight behind the choice of Prince Kassim Afegbua as the new information commissioner. At this point, Aledeh apparently sets two agenda for Afegbua. Firstly, he should sustain the laudable public service practice of responding to official letters within 48 hours.

Secondly, Aledeh pleads that it is time The Nigerian Observer hits the newstands in addition to being an online newspaper.

He submitted: "It is my dream that if I am in Lagos I will be able to walk to a newsstand and get a copy of The Nigerian Observer in hard copy."