Police Public Relations Officer, Delta State Police Command, Superintendent of Police, SP Bright Edafe, will take his turn as Special Guest of Orientation Panorama, the People’s program on Voice of Delta Radio 97.9 FM, live from 3 pm to 4 pm on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. He will be speaking on the goals, achievements, and challenges of the new Commissioner Of Police, Delta State Command, CP Abaniwonda Olufemi, as well as security situation in the state. The PPRO who is well known for his in-depth knowledge of security issues in the state, shall inform Deltans on the efforts made so…
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By Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe Esq #dsobpress He won 21 local government areas out of 25, to become governor of Delta State. He encountered several electioneering legal battles from within and outside of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and apparently survived the entire 38 Court Cases, never lost any. To God be the Glory. His choice was apt, received with loud ovation except a handful of his political detractors and rivals. His candidacy under the PDP rocked the three senatorial districts of Delta State, and shock her Political foundation. The SHERRIFICATION OF DELTA 23, came in yellow colour, and the people…
By Abel JOHNGOLD ORHEUATA In a lecture, a Nigerian academic and researcher, Professor Olufemi Ayinde Peters, and serving Vice-Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), stated that Nigerian universities face many challenges and that the negative perception of these institutions reflects the need for reforms, better governance, accountability measures and increased investment in higher education. Prof. Peters stated this while exploring the profound and unintended consequences of federal government policies on Nigeria’s higher education landscape at the University of Ibadan Alumni Association (UIAA) Worldwide 2024 Alumni Lecture he delivered last Friday, at the Dame Edith Okowa Auditorium, University…
“Simi And Adekunle Gold Makes Me Rêgret Being Single, Their Love Is Still Burning Fresh Like They Started Just Yesterday”. – Tiwa Savage writes in pain and rêgrets leaving her marriage. In her words: “While on set with Simi I had to ask her when she met Adekunle Gold again. Coz AG kept calling & checking on her every now and then, like 10 times in 10 minutes hahaha. Their love is still bürning fresh like they started just yesterday. Omo, na that day single life pa!n me…” Indeed people don’t know the value of what they have until they…
By Funke Egbemode (egbemode3@gmail.com) Letty was a good girl who became a good wife but the seasons changed and this once-upon-a-time choir leader, like Lot’s wife, looked back and right before the eyes of her Pastor and in the presence of her bewildered husband, is turning into a pillar of salt. The kind of salt no one wants to touch or taste. It was all the fault of this Japa syndrome. Letty and her husband, Brandon, had decided that Nigeria, the way it was going, was going to ruin their plans for the future. As it was, their future was…
By Dada Olusegun The Lagos-Calabar coastal road project is undoubtedly Nigeria’s most ambitious transport infrastructure project since independence. In terms of scope, distance covered, and connectivity, not even the 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos, the 2nd Niger Bridge in Onitsha/Asaba, or the Abuja-Kano expressway comes close. It is simply a world-class iconic project. Before I go further, I want us to take a brief trip back to history. The idea for a major coastal federal road in Nigeria was first conceptualized in 1955 by the then Federal Commissioner of Finance, Late Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, who hails from present-day Delta State.…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has declared illegal Regulations 126 and 127 of the Nigerian Police which allows for the dismissal of an unmarried policewomen who become pregnant during their service. The three-man panel of the court also asked the respondents, the Attorney General of the Federation, the Police Service Commission and the Nigerian Police Force, to carry out a comprehensive review of the entire Police Regulations to ensure that they accord with the demands of a modern society operating under the rule of law. Justice Olubunmi Oyewole read the lead judgment which was unanimously adopted by the…
Delta state Commissioner of Police, CP Olufemi Abaniwonda, on Saturday despatched a high powered investigating team to Ometan Community Junction, along the ever-busy Warri-Sapele road in Okpe Local Government area, for an on-the-spot assessment on the cause of accident which led to the fuel tanker fire that claimed seven (7) lives and property in the area. The investigating team led by Deputy Commissioner of Police, Operations, DCP Aina Adesola, who arrived the accident scene at about 09;27am, took some eye-witnesses account on the tragic occurrence, especially from traders and artisans operating along the highway where the incident occurred at about…
The reconciliation efforts of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Delta State led by party founding leader, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor may be in jeopardy due to an alleged constitutional breach by the state party Chairman, Elder Omeni Sobotie, in constituting the Committee. A top Delta APC legal expert, Barr. Michael Ukusare in a letter to Sobotie claimed that the formation of an “Expanded State Caucus” which appointed Emerhor was unconstitutional as the APC constitution does not provide for such a caucus. Ukusare who has diligently defended the party legally in the past warned that any actions from the illegal committee…
The Senator representing Delta Central Senatoral District, Senator Ede Dafinone has expressed shock and sadness over the sudden death of the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), in the last election in Delta State, Olorogun Barr Kenneth Omemavwa Gbagi, FNIM OON. Gbagi, a former minister of Education, industrialist, a renowned criminologist and senior lawyer died on Saturday, May 4th 2024, at the age of 62. Recall that in a statement signed by his eldest son, Chief Emuoboh Gbagi on behalf of the Gbagi family, confirmed the demise of the industrialist; “It is with profound sadness but gratitude to…