BY PATRICK MGBODO Coriftech Solutions, a renowned technology hub in Asaba devoted to building the next tech talents in Africa, has launched its Design Academy to expand opportunities for women, youth and Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) while empowering youths for prosperity. The initiative which aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets to revolutionize the fields of design and prepare the youths for the projected digitization of industries. At the launch of the initiative in Asaba, Delta State Capital, the founder of Coriftech Solutions tech hub, Cynthia Orife, the Design Academy would equip students with a holistic toolkit for personal…
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The Chairman of the Delta State Amnesty Phase 2, ‘General’ Solomon Adu has congratulated Chief Dennis Otuaro (PhD), the Ibe-Uyadonwei of Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South West Local Government Area on his well deserved appointment by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme PAP, describing it as square peg in a square hole. ‘General’ Adu who spoke in Warri,Delta State said the news of the appointment of Chief Dennis Otuaro as the new helmsman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme was greeted with joy and excitement by all stakeholders judging from his antecedents as a thorough…
Chairman of Okoloba community, in Bomadi LGA, Mr Clement Koki, says the killing of 22 Nigerian Army personnel, took place in Okuama, a neighboring Urhobo enclave in Ughelli South LGA of Delta State. Koki said Vanguard, in March 16, 2024 edition, and other media reports linking the condemnable act to “irate Ijaw youths”, were “maliciously misleading” the authorities towards passing the blame on Okoloba, an Ijaw community, itself at receiving end of aggression of the Urhobo enclave. “Let it be made clear that, the crisis in which the military JTF intervened to sue for peace is not between two Ijaw…
Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori has met with President Bola Tinubu over killing of 17 military personnel in Okuoma community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of the state. Recall that 17 military personnel comprising a lieutenant colonel, two majors, one captain, and 13 soldiers were killed while on a “peacekeeping mission” in Okuoma community. While the Delta state and federal governments have condemned the incident, promising that perpetrators would be apprehended and made to face the wrath of the law, the visit of the State Governor to the presidency was to brief Mr President of the development.…
Any Military Coup in Nigeria will lead to organized armed resistance in the South West, Apapo Oodua Koya, [AOKOYA], a Yoruba Self Determination Coalition has said. The group said it has noticed the statements of some Nigerian leaders aimed at preparing the mood of the Country for a Military Coup. “We want to assure anyone contemplating a Coup that there will be armed resistance to such a plot. In the first one month of such a Coup, there will be Shock and Confusion, but we want to assure such plotters that it will take less than one month before the…
Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State believes Nigeria’s biting economic situation is an “inevitable” phase for the betterment of the nation. “You see, sometimes, I kind of feel we don’t get it,” he said on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics while alluding to complaints about the economy, likening the country’s situation to a patient undergoing treatment. “But whether there will be pains for any step you take or the other, it is going to be. It is inevitable. But that is obviously what we need to pass through,” he said, maintaining that President Bola Tinubu inherited a bad economy upon assumption…
The Member of the House of Representatives, representing Bomadi/Patani Federal Constituency of Delta State, Rt. Hon. Nicholas Mutu, has condemned Thursday’s killing of 16 soldiers by some irate youths of Okuama community , an Urhobo enclave in Ughelli South Local Government Area of the state. Mutu, who is the Chairman of the Gas Committee in the House, described the action as “barbaric and inhuman.” Mutu, who is also the Chairman of the Southern Nigeria Caucus in the House of Representatives, made his position on the tragic incident known in a statement issued by his Media Office on Sunday. The federal…
The Urhobo Media Practitioners Advocacy Group (UMPAG), college of Urhobo media practitioners worldwide, received with rude shock the heinous and dastardly murder of 16 military personnel, including the commanding officer of 181 Amphibious Batallion, two Majors and a Captain by unknown gunmen around the bank of Okuama community in Ewu Kingdom in the Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. As a body of trained media workers, we condemn in strong terms the killing of the military personnel and some indigenes of the Okuama community. From information available to us, there is a grand conspiracy to twist the facts…
The Senator representing Delta South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Joel-Onowakpo Thomas has condemned the gruesome murder of 16 soldiers in Okuama Community, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State. Senator Joel-Onowakpo reacting to the needless death of Nigerian soldiers who were on a peace mission in a statement signed by him, said it was a crisis taken too far. The Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Defence, thereby commiserate with the military and the immediate families of the slain soldiers. While calling for a holistic investigation into the remote causes of the crisis that led to the…
53 Undergraduates, 175 Foundation Students Secure Scholarship To Hensard University… as HSDF Fulfils N100m scholarship Pledge Some 228 lucky students have emerged as the first batch of beneficiaries of the N100m scholarship fund pledged to Hensard University, Toru-Orua by the Henry Seriake Dickson Foundation, HSDF. The beneficiaries include 53 undergraduates and 175 Foundation students of the institution. The announcement of the lucky students is coming on the heels of the release of the fund, as the university is set to resume its first academic session on April 14, 2024. A statement from HSDF which conveyed the good news said in…