By ABEL JOHNGOLD Deta State Governor, Sen Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has stated that the strengthening of primary health care is the strategy of his administration to achieve universal health coverage , saying it is a veritable tool to reduce the burden of diseases and tackle emerging and re-emerging health challenges in Delta communities. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Vice Presidential Candidate disclosed this at the presentation and commissioning of health care equipments for distribution to various primary health care centers in the state donated by the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (DESOPADEC) on Monday, 19 December. While acknowledging…
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By Justice Ogwah The Sheriffication Movement (TSM) a group of young men and women who are committed to the actualization of the gubernatorial ambition of the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori JP FICMC, has commiserated with her Grand Patron and immediate past governor of the state, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan CON, on the passage of his father-in-law, Retired Brigadier General Sunny Esijolomi Tuoyo. The group in a condolence letter addressed to the former Governor and signed by its Director General Comr. Palmer Ogheneyole Nathaniel, prayed God to grant the bereaved family the fortitude to…
An illustrious son of Issele-Iku, Bazim Biose has deployed equipment to rehabilitate and open up deplorable roads in Issele-Uku and environs. Bazim, a reknowed estate developer of Idumu-Inei quarters, Issele-Uku extraction, who also is the Aniocha North All Progressive Congress(APC ) candidate for the Aniocha North House of Assembly 2023 election revealed this initiative recently on a recent consultative visit to some community leaders in Aniocha North. The sure bet candidate expressed utmost alarm over the deplorable state of roads in Issele-Uku, the headquarters and epicentre of the Aniocha North Local Government Area. According to him” There is the need…
By Kenneth Obieh Delta State Advocacy Team (SAT) on HIV/AIDs, Tuberculosis and Malaria tasks Community Based Organisations (CBOs) on proper documentation of their activities to enhanced work delivery. The leader of SAT, Pastor Greg Sifo gave the charge at the monthly coordination meeting held with the various Community Based Organisation (CBOs) in Asaba. Pastor Sifo who thanked members of SAT especially the State Program Officer, Miss Juliet Obiajulu for her selfless service in bringing out useful results from the communities. He also enjoined the CBOs to consolidate on helping the people to gain effectively from the program. The State Program Officer, Miss…
A first line charge democratic Federal House of Representatives emeritus, Dr Olisa Enebeli Imegwu, Esq, has counselled the principal officers of the senate against desperate ploys to truncate Chief Lauretta Onochie’s nomination and subsequent clearance as the Chairman of the Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC), through spurious illogical legal postulations devoid of sound juridistic premises. Imegwu, a socio- political philosopher cum juristic pundit, made this call in his reaction to a court judgement being bandied by a crop of inadequately schooled individuals on the intricate dynamics of interpreting Nigeria’s 1999 constitution as ammended. According to the erudite grassroots politician representing the…
All Tobi Amusan did was conquer the world. Just a little over five feet (5ft1inch), people remember her as the diminutive athlete who towered on the podium and shed tears of joy as the Nigerian anthem boomed around the Hayward Field venue of the 2022 World Athletics Championship (WAC) in Oregon, United States. The narrative of her rise to renown would, however, not be complete without examining her backstory. Amusan has grown from the listless 15-year-old who won her race in her school’s inter-house sports competition to becoming a global queen of track and field. Her story may read as…
By Dennis Agwa As Nigerians prepare for the general elections slated for the first quarter of 2023 a lot of permutations are going on about what should happen and who should get what by way of winning at the polls. The electorate is now the beautiful bride with suitors, many of them sweet-tongued and deceptive, coming to knock at the door to her heart. At the national scene, the furore has escalated around the three leading candidates namely, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peter Obi of the Labour…
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ABARI/Nigeria: Lawyer, humanist and Director of Legal, Delta State Contributing Health Commission, Barr. Richard Nagberi, and his siblings, are set to bury their late father, Pa. Mieseigha Alale Nagberi, a retired diplomat from the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Until his transition to glory, Pa Nagberi, aged 87 year, was a devout christian and a strong mobilizer of all folk for peaceful coexistence of residents in his locality. A lover of western education, Pa Mieseigha Alale Nagberi ensured that all his children got the right education to enhance their leadership roles in the society. He is also the father of Timi…
By Festus Okubor ALL through the ages, great leaders, who impacted their generations and times rose from among the people and suffered as they emerged from nothingness to become something. The examples of Winston Churchill of Great Britain, Abraham Lincoln of America, Nnamdi Azikiwe of Nigeria, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Obafemi Awolowo of Nigeria, just to mention a few, remind us that life for great leaders was never a walk in a beautiful park. A more recent and contemporary example has been Barack Obama. These leaders have certain things in common. One of which is found in their humble background…
Nasarawa United’s midfielder, Ikenna Offor, was on target for the Solid Miners in the team’s 1-1 draw against Nigeria’s U-20 youth team, the Flying Eagles as both sides prepare for the tasks ahead. The energetic player netted from the spot twenty-four minutes into the restart with menacing winger, Oche Josiah, taking credit for the assist after he was hacked down inside the box by the opponents’ defender at the FIFA Goal Project Football Field, Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja, on Friday afternoon. With United almost ending the Flying Eagles’ unbeaten record in as many Pre-Season matches, Lekan Adam ensured both…