By Fred Edoreh As Ola Rotimi once wrote, “when you have a hundred yams and you lie you have 200, after eating your hundred yams, you will eat your hundred lies.” The adage is succinct on the folly of self deception, and that is the problem with Omo-Agege in his bid for the Delta State governorship. He inflicted many wrong assumptions constructed by himself upon himself. First, he misconstrued the notoriety he earned from the stealing of the Senate mace as popularity. It was always something to talk about but Deltans knew the act was despicable and characterises the actor…
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By Onoriode Etatsemi. Delta State High Court sitting at Effurun Criminal Division, on Tuesday 28th March 2023, sentenced a 38 year old man, Godspower Ojakovo, to fifteen years imprisonment. The court presided over by Honourable Justice Michael Nduka Obi, convicted the Defendant for defiling a fifteen year old girl. The defendant was arraigned before the High Court on a charge of having unlawful carnal knowledge of a child at Effurun, on 30th March 2020, an offence punishable under Section 218 of the Criminal Code Law Cap C21 Vol. 1 Laws of Delta State of Nigeria 2006. The prosecution led by…
As the people of Delta State join the rest of Christendom in Nigeria and worldwide to mark the Easter, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state has urged the people to remain hopeful as ultimately the irregularities that thwarted the people’s will be unraveled. In his Easter message issued through a press release signed by Sunny Areh, Omo-Agege’s Chief Press Secretary, the Deputy President of the Senate said the season should be celebrated in an atmosphere of calm and positive expectations. “As Christendom celebrates the most important event in the salvation of mankind…
Few hours ago, the national headquarters of the Labour Party in Abuja witnessed massive attack and was broken into by a detachment of the Nigerian Police and thugs believed to be working for the All Progressives Congress, APC. The Invaders who were armed reportedly pulled down the fences, burglaries, doors and window to have access to our Secretariat and in the process sacked workers and party members who were at the Secretariat. Though, I was out of town but information has it that the agenda of the Invaders was to inaugurate an illegitimate executive which has been chosen for them…
The Governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, CON, his predecessor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, CON, and the Governor-elect of the state, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, are set to attend the year 2023 edition of Maris Annual Public Service Lecture as Special Guests of Honour. Comrade Fidelis Egugbo, Secretary, Maris Trust Council, MTC, disclosed this in a statement he personally signed and made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Asaba, the Delta State Capital city. According to the statement, this year’s event is scheduled to hold on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at the Unity Hall Government House, Asaba and the…
The executive committee of the Aniocha North All Progressives Congress in Delta State, has nullified the purported suspension order on Madam Lauretta Onochie by the APC Onicha-Olona ward 04 executive in the local government area. A statement signed by Sir Matthew Chinye and Pastor David Onwuamaeze, the party’s LGA Chairman and secretary respectively, on behalf of a seventeen person executive, noted that ”the ward executive erred by not communicating perceived allegations against Madam Onochie to the LGA executive, a body statutorily recognized as the adjudicatory body in the first instance, as enshrined in section of 21 of the party’s constitution,…
The Natiomal Young Progressive Forum has thrown their weight behind the aspiration of the Distinguished Senator Osita Izunaso (SOI), the pioneer National Organizing Secretary of the All Progressive Congress (APC), who has shown interest in contesting for the office of the Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the coming tenth (10th) Senate to be inangurated on 13th of June, 2023. According to the group looking at his unrelenting efforts and the unending contributions to our great Party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) from the inception. His antecedent as one of the founding progressive leaders who worked tirelessly…
Media aide to the immediate past Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, Mr. Ismail Omipidan, has described as wicked and untrue the claim by Governor Ademola Adeleke that Oyetola attempted selling off the state mining licences before stepping aside on November 26, 2022. He noted that contrary to the governor’s claim, it was Oyetola who made sense of Osun’s assets in the mining sector, under the government’s seven project streams in its Osun Minerals Development Plan. He said but for Oyetola administration’s conscious efforts at developing the sector, Osun would have since lost all its 17 mining licences. Omipidan, in a…
The Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has knocked Governor-elect, Abba Yusuf, saying his leadership doesn’t have a sense of direction. OUR REPORTER reports that the governor has clashed with the governor-elect over his recent public advisories over issues before his inauguration. It would be recalled that Yusuf issued two advisories last week under Ganduje’s government, a development that attracted criticisms from the incumbent governor who stated he remains in charge till May 29. However, in a fresh attack, the governor said Yusuf wants to start on a wrong footing with all that he is doing. Ganduje told pressmen after a…
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has said Nigerians are fed up with the administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Our Reporter reports that Kwankwaso in an interview with BBC Hausa Service, alleged that the fraud committed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, led to the victory of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu. According to the former governor of Kano State, INEC fraudulently allocated votes to the APC candidate during the just-concluded presidential election. Speaking on the further of the party, Kwankwaso said NNPP has a bright future because big politicians are interested in the…