Deputy Senate President and Delta APC Governorship candidate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has hailed the leadership of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, for taking a decision to collapse it’s entire structure in Delta State into the All Progressives Congress, APC. Senator Omo-Agege spoke when the ongoing ward to ward campaigns of APC berthed at Illah and Westend, Asaba, Thursday, February 2. He said, “If we must change the narrative, we must make very big decisions” and congratulated the ADC leadership for the courage to join forces with the APC to put an to the impunity and arrogance of the People’s Democratic…
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By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA Deputy President of the Senate, Obarisi Ovie Omo-Agege has promised to address the alarming rate of renting accommodation in Asaba and its environs within his first two years when elected Governor of Delta State. He stated this in Asaba yesterday during the All Progressive Congress (APC) ward-to-ward campaign rally in Ward 9 of Oshimili South Local Government Area of Delta State. The APC Governorship candidate, flanked by his Deputy, Rt. Hon. Friday Osanebi and other Party bigwigs, said when elected, he would not only complete all uncompleted and abandoned civil servants housing estates in the State…
By Oghenekevwe Kelvin Jakpo In recent times, the news media in the state have been inundated with criticisms against Chief (Barrister) Kenneth Gbagi; the Social Democratic Party’s gubernatorial candidate for the 2023 election in Delta State. The surprising thing about these attacks against him is that, they are not because of any known fault or default on the part of this well-accepted illustrious son of our dear state. Rather, it is hinged on the flimsy reason that he is fraternizing too much with the Church of God; the Body of Christ. Many right-thinking Deltans have raised their voices in condemnation…
.By Abdullahi O.Haruna Haruspice At the venue of the All Progressives Congress party convention in Lagos in 2014, all was set by the duo of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to define your end politically. They came prepared to pull the rug off your feet but one man -only one man saved you. The man is Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu! Sensing the clandestine onslaught against you, he rolled out his political canopy and got you enveloped, thereby shielding you from the dangerous arrows of defeat. You came victorious because this man used his massive clouts to see you…
By Pat GBEMUDU In line with their corporate social responsibility, members of a Lagos based fast growing social organization; Hazie Masters Club of Nigeria on Wednesday made mouth watering donations to motherless and abandoned children at the Nigeria Red Cross Orphanage Lagos and children with cancer at the Alima Atta Oncology Ward, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba. The Club members who were led on the courtesy visit by their President; High Chief Richard Agbapuru donated a total of N700,000 together with noddle foods, bags of rice and other things to the Lagos Chapter of the Nigeria Red Cross Orphanage…
The families of Pa Joseph Oritseretsolokumi Ayonmike and his wife, Dr. Shirley Chinyere Ayonmike, has issued a reward amid the search for a man suspected of killing the couple about two years ago. The families of the two deceased are offering N2m (Two Million naira) reward to anyone with information that leads to the capture of the driver to the murdered couple, who is the prime suspect of the heinous crime, and has asked for the public’s help in solving the “deliberate, intentional and brutal” murder of the Ayonmikes, saying that the gruesome events were a nightmare that will not…
By Grade-One Clark It is those who went to law school and are called to bar that are approved to practice law in Nigeria. I think the same should apply to the journalism profession, only persons who studied mass media and communications at the university and those that attended the Nigerian institute of journalism, and are inducted into the profession, should be allowed to practice. Presently, the profession is so porous that every Dick and Harry who can scribble something, thinks he is qualified to peddle information. Journalists are known for their agenda setting role, and not confusionist. One…
The Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Obarisi Ovie Omo-Agege, has accused the Governor of Delta State and the Peoples Democratic Party, Vice Presidential Candidate, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa of fighting all those who worked hard to make him a governor in 2015. Senator Omo-Agege, calling on Deltans to vote out Senator Okowa and PDP in the coming elections, noted that the only way to reward the Governor for his treachery against southern Nigeria and leaders who labour to make him the governor of the state is to ensure that his VP quest crashes. The Delta APC governorship candidate spoke on…
Members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in National Orientation Agency (NOA) have demanded that the NUJ leadership immediately rescinds its decision and withdraws the order it issued to State Councils for the closure of NOA NUJ Chapels. This was contained in a communique/letter titled “REJECTION OF THE NUJ SPECIAL DELEGATES CONFERENCE’S DECISION ON MEMBERS IN THE NOA” addressed to the National President of NUJ, Comrade Chief Christopher Isiguzo on Wednesday, 1 February, 2023 In the letter that was jointly signed by Representatives of NOA NUJ Chapel Chairmen and Chairpersons from the six geopolitical zones of the country, they noted with…
The National Association of Seadogs, Pyrates Confraternity has distanced itself from lyrics of a viral video targeting one of the presidential candidates. Aside from disowning the video, the group stated that those who canvass it do not represent the opinion or position of the Pyrates Confraternity and therefore “dissociate ourselves from any insinuations or misrepresentation, the video conveys.” The NAS Capoon, Mr Abiola Owoaje in a press statement: Setting The Records Straight- Official Position Not in authorised Videos, noted that as a responsible organisation, it is mindful of the need to be circumspect by advocating for good governance without heating…