The Concerned Niger Delta Stakeholders (CNDS), has admonished Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, Delta born second in command of Nigeria’s red chamber, against stonewalling President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominees’ list of Niger Delta Development Commission(NDDC) governing board, recently transmitted to the senate for clearance. In a statement available to journalists, the group’s spokesperson, Pere Jackson Zuokmo, disclosed that, this call has become auspicious, in view of Omo-Agege’s preference for the outdated list which had his preferred candidate, Benard Okumagba, his kinsman as the prospective Managing Director of the interventionist organisation. The outmoded list was allegedly prepared and ferried to the national legislature…
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By Kenneth Obieh The World Health Organisation (WHO) has agreed to work with the Delta State Advocacy Team ( SAT) implementing the COVID-19 Response Mechanism, Resilient and Sustainable System for Health and Community System Strengthening (C19RM/RSSH-CSS) in the state. Delta State Director of WHO, Dr Faith Ireye, stated this when the team paid an Advocacy visit to her office in Asaba. Dr. Ireye disclosed that they were always ready to partner with any group that wanted to ensure that people were healthy in a healthy environment. The coordinator assured of their collaboration in providing interventions in immunisation, vaccination, provision of…
By Valerie Oyibo-Itie For the second time in one week, fire has razed Sapele Main Market in Sapele, destroying goods and properties worth several millions of naira. Stores along the Boyo Road before St. Luke’s Anglican Church, went on flames in broad daylight making traders to run helter skelter, trying to put off the flames. The Delta State fire service was called upon, but as at the time of filing this report, men of the service were yet to arrive. Traders were seen lamenting their losses and could not speak to the press. The cause of the fire is yet…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Abuja launched the new Naira banknotes, expressing delight that the redesigned currencies are locally produced by the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting (NSPM) PLC. Speaking at the launch of the new banknotes, which preceded the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, the President explained in detail the basis for his approval to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to redesign the ₦200, ₦500 and ₦1000 banknotes. According to the President, ‘‘the new Naira banknotes have been fortified with security features that make them difficult to counterfeit.’’ He also added that the new banknotes…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Tuesday revealed how then-President Goodluck Jonathan traveled to London and pleaded with Atiku Abubakar to support his re-election bid in 2015 but he rejected him. Wike stated this when the Governor of Ebonyi State Dave Umahi visited Port Harcourt to commission the Akpabu-Itu-Umudiogha road in the Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers. According to him, Jonathan travelled to the Dorchester Hotel in London in 2015 to meet Atiku but rather, but the former VP “embarrassed” Jonathan and told him to relinquish his ticket to him. Wike said, “We forget history. In 2015 when…
Former Delta State Commissioner for Information and Culture, Health,as well as Chief of Staff, Government House, Asaba, Dr Festus Okubor, has taken a swipe at the Deputy Senate President and Delta State Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, (APC )Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, for engaging in what he called callous mudslinging of the Delta State Governor, Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa, even as he described the tenure of the DSP in Delta State public service, as financially disastrous. Dr. Okubor whose views were contained in a detailed and comprehensive write up on the recently held APC Presidential Rally/Flag Off of the governorship…
By Kenneth Obieh Community Based Organisations (CBOs) in the state have been charged to join in the implementation of Gender Based Violence (GBV) and Human Rights issues in the state. The charge was given by the leader of the State Advocacy Team (SAT), Pastor Greg Sifo during the monthly coordination meeting, held with the various communities based organisations across the state to get reports on their success stories, recommendations and their challenges within the month. Pastor Sifo urged the CBOs to always put in mind the issues of GBV and Human Rights in the course of implementation in their various…
Ehis Austin Ehis The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele on Tuesday revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari will unveil newly designed N1,000, N500 and N200 notes on Wednesday, November 23, 2022. This is against an initial plan to launch on December 15th. Emefiele made this known during the apex bank’s Monetary Policy Committee monthly meeting in Abuja. According to him, the CBN won’t shift its deadline for all old notes to be returned to commercial banks in exchange for newly designed ones. The CBN MPC also hiked monetary policy to 16.5% from 15.5% while all other…
President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that his administration attracted over $3bn investment in the Oil and Gas Sector at a time of near-zero appetite for investment in fossil energy. Speaking Tuesday in Bauchi at the Flag-off Ceremony of the Kolmani Integrated Development Project, a fully integrated in-situ development project comprising upstream production, oil refining, power generation and fertilizer, President Buhari said: “Considering the land locked location and the huge capital requirement, the economics of the project is a challenging proposition. Consequently, from the outset, I instructed NNPC Limited to utilize and leverage their vast asset portfolio across all corridors of…
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA The group, Niger Delta Patriots (NDP), has reminded the Federal Government of Nigeria not forget in a hurry that the activities of militants in the creeks of Niger Delta nearly crippled the Nigerian economy some years ago, with a threat that if the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) board is not constituted within the next 14 days, the whole world will hear from them. The NDP made the threat today while briefing journalists in Asaba, on their demand tagged “A STRIDENT CALL ON LEADERS OF OUR NATION TO URGENTLY CONSTITUTE NDDC BOARD”. At the Press briefing,…