The Doris Amaka Ochei Foundation (DAO Foundation) Monday achieved a milestone when it brought back to use the market at Onicha-Olona that was built 20 years ago by the Aniocha North Local government administration of Callistus Nwawolo but abandoned because of lack of good access road. However, through the magnanimity and benevolence of the DAO Foundation that has Dr. (Mrs) Doris Amaka Ochei, wife of Major General Raymond Ochei as founder and President, the market was rehabilitated, expanded and commissioned by the incumbent Local Government Chairman, Hon. Kevin Okwechime for immediate us. Okwechime was represented at the event by the…
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Delta State Government on Tuesday, said it had given an ultimatum to its Ministry of Works to ensure that Section C2 of Ughelli/Asaba Road dualisation project was completed in the life of the present administration. The Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, made this known while briefing journalists on some decisions reached at the State Executive Council (EXCO) meeting presided over by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa at Government House, Asaba. Aniagwu said that a lot of works had been done on the Section which ran from Koka flyover and interchange to Ogwashi-Uku junction, adding that the remaining part of the project…
By Onoriode Etatsemi. The High Court of Justice Delta State, sitting at Kwale Criminal Division, has convicted and sentenced a forty-four year old man, Olawale Ayeni, to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour for the offence of Rape. The Court presided over by Honourable Justice O F. Enenmo, delivered its judgment on Tuesday 22 March, 2023. The Defendant was arraigned before the Court on a one count charge of Rape, punishable under section 358 of the Criminal Law Code Cap C21 Vol. 1 Laws of Delta State of Nigeria 2006. The Defendant was alleged to have had carnal knowledge of…
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta on Monday, urged traditional rulers in Delta North Senatorial District to declare every Easter Monday as “Anioma Day” worldwide. Okowa made the call in his remarks at the 18th Anioma Cultural Festival organised by the Organisation For The Advancement of Anioma Culture (OFAAC), in Asaba. He clarified that it was the traditional rulers, and not the state government that would make a declaration to set a day aside for annual celebration of Anioma people and culture. Okowa, who therefore, urged traditional rulers in the area to get together and make the declaration, remarked that the…
By abiodun KOMOLAFE Whenever a section of the society wants to embark on something new, it’ll first fly a kite. To sane minds, flying a kite is like testing the waters. If the society is gullible enough to ‘collectivise, objectify, even sacralise’ it, then, it becomes the norm. Unfortunately, societal norms tend to grow organic; and continue to evolve that, very soon, people may not even remember its origin. Such is the interim national government plot by some political gladiators in Nigeria. While it is no longer in doubt that the call has again added flavour to the political vocabularies…
Wife of Chief Sir Benjamin Elue, former Deputy Governor of Delta State, Lady Esther Elue, will on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, be Mother of the Day at this year’s edition of Maris Annual Public Service Lecture billed to hold at the prestigious Unity Hall, Government House, Asaba at 12 noon. At the lecture, Governor of Delta State, Governor Ifeanyi A. Okowa , CON, his predecessor in office, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, Ph.D, CON, and the Governor-elect of Delta State, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, will be Special Guests of Honour, while an industrialist, Delta-born multi-billionaire businessman, Dr Gabriel Ogbechie, will be the…
Sen. Dr. Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa was born at Owa-Alero in Ika North-East Local Government Area of Delta State. He attended Edo College, Benin City (1970–1976), then went on to the University of Ibadan where he studied Medicine and Surgery, graduating in 1981 with an MBBS degree. After leaving the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, he worked with the Bendel State Hospitals Management Board as a Medical Officer. He entered private practice as Director, Victory Medical Centre, Igbanke in 1986. Political Career: Sen. Dr. Okowa, became Secretary to the Ika Local Government and then Chairman of the Ika North-East Local Government…
By THE WHISTLER For Itse Sagay, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, won the 2023 presidential election. In an exclusive interview with THE WHISTLER, the legal luminary said the widespread votes secured by Tinubu showed clearly he won the election……CONTINUE READING A distinguished scholar ,Constitutional Lawyer, author and human rights advocate, he was born Itsejuwa Esanjumi Sagay on 20th December 1940 in Ibadan, Oyo State. He’s the founding Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Benin and an author of The Nigerian Law of Contract, regarded as an…
By Emmanuel Egobiambu The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay, says the 2023 election is one of the best in the country’s history. He spoke while fielding questions on Channels Television Sunday Politics where he hailed the role of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) in the exercise. While Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared the winner of the presidential election, critics say the exercise was marred with violence. Top contenders like Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP)’s Peter Obi have challenged the outcome…
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta on Saturday said his administration was building sustainable infrastructure for the continued growth and development of the state. Okowa stated this while speaking to journalists shortly after inspecting extent of work on Storm Drainage channel from Owa-Alero and environs through Owa-Alizomor and Owa-Offie to Iyi-Amah stream in Ika North East Local Government Area. The multi-billion naira project which is 50 per cent completed was among the projects listed in the bridging finance facility earlier obtained by the state government. The governor, who was conducted round the site by the Commissioner for Works, Mr Noel Omodon…