BY ONORIODE ETATSEMI Delta State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Isaiah Bozimo has said that the State Government through the Ministry of Justice and taskforce on human trafficking and irregular migration will always embrace holistic approach towards collaborating with relevant stakeholders to enhance the safety and security of Deltans. Bozimo stated this in his office in Asaba when he played host to the Programme Manager, DEVATOP Centre for Africa Development, Mr. Emmanuel Ibiabo and his team who paid him a courtesy visit. He said that the State taskforce on human trafficking and irregular migration had continued to interface with…
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Compiled By: Engr. Kabiru el-Hussain Rumah Jakadan Rumah What is an Executive Order ? There is no precise judicial definition of what an Executive Order is! Before a Law is passed, it has to go through a lawmaking process, in the National Assembly. This lawmaking process can at times take months or years, before it lands on the President’s table for ascenting and hence becoming a law. On the other hand, an Executive Order is a shortcut to this long process. A President can use it to issue a directive without going through the painful process of begging the National…
NUJ is the umbrella body of all practicing journalists in Nigeria. Most of members of Delta Online Publishers Forum (DOPF) here in Delta State, are members of Delta NUJ and whatsoever benefits that is due a journalist in Delta State, DOPF members ought to benefit from their Chapels as they financially and physically play their roles. DOPF is a professional body of Online News Publishers in Delta. It is separate and distinct from NUJ. Its members comprise of Proprietors, Editors of Registered Online News publishing platforms owned by Deltans or operating in Delta State. Delta State Government deals…
Delta Online Publishers Forum, DOPF, has congratulated the state governor-elect, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, even as it has called on him, to fulfill his pledges and promises to Deltans as encapsulated in his M.O.R.E Agenda, when he assumes office as Governor. This call was contained in a congratulatory message signed by the Forum’s Chairman, Mr Emmanuel Enebeli and Secretary, Mr Shedrack Onitsha, which further assured the incoming governor of their readiness to promote his polices and programmes, for the collective development of the State. According to the Publishers: “As we look forward to your assumption of office and settling down…
The Kano State Governor-elect, Malam Abba Yusuf, has issued a Public Advisory to all subsisting and prospective lenders to the current Kano State Government. The advisory is contained in a statement issued on Friday in Kano by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor-elec, Sanusi Bature Dawakin-Tofa. It warned that from March 18 to May 29, no lender, domestic or international, should grant any loan facility to the incumbent Kano State Government without the expressed consent of the incoming administration. “Any such loan facility approved and issued to the Kano State Government between the date of election and the date…
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has slammed a fine of N5 million on Channels TV for breaking the broadcasting code in an interview programme with Dr Datti Baba-Ahmed, Labour Party Vice Presidential candidate. The fine was revealed in a letter addressed to the Chief Executive Officer of the television station and dated March 27. The letter was exclusively obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja. The letter, with the title: “Broadcast of an Inciting Interview, A Sanction”, was signed by Balarabe Ilelah, the commission’s Director-General. It read in part:” The NBC monitored the broadcast of…
By Patrick Ochei The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Delta State Council, is to collaborate with the Independent Corrupt Practices and other offences Commission (ICPC) with a view to prosecuting the war against corruption strategically. This understanding was reached when the leadership of the Union in the State, paid a familiarisation visit to the Commission’s office in Asaba, Thursday 30th March, 2023. During the meeting session, the NUJ Chairman, Comrade Michael Ikeogwu underscored the critical importance of ICPC Nigeria in fighting corruption and enhancing positive societal growth through prevention of corrupt tendencies and enforcement of anti corruption laws. Ikeogwu…
With less than two weeks to the year 2023 edition of Maris Annual Public Service lecture, renowned Delta-born billionaire businessman, Dr Gabriel Ogbechie, OON, has agreed to be Chairman of occasion. Secretary of Maris Trust Council, MTC, organisers of the annual lecture series, Comrade Fidelis Egugbo disclosed on Friday in Asaba, Delta State that this year’s edition will be a gathering of who-is-who in the society as they proffer solutions to the challenges of the society. According to him, “we are very excited that Dr. Gabriel Ogbechie, OON, Group Managing Director, Rainoil Limited, will be Chairman at this year’s edition…
The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress(APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has confirmed that Dr Nasiru Ladan is the authentic and indisputable Director General, of the Amalgamated APC Support Groups(AASG) the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party knows. A statement signed by Mr. Nkem Osu, Director of Communications and Public Relations, Amalgamated APC Support Groups AASG, disclosed that Senator Adamu gave this affirmation when the AASG paid a post-election interactive visit to aprise the NWC of the challenges facing the group. In his earlier address, Dr Nasiru Ladan revealed that, a group of self-appointed leadership impersonators, has been a…
The Delta State APC Gubernatorial Campaign Committee have watched with disgust the shameful vituperations of Dr. Cairo Ojougbo, the expelled and now former member of our party, the APC on Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, our Gubernatorial candidate. Dr. Ojougbo spent nearly an hour on Arise TV pouring invectives on our candidate and principal Ovie Omo-Agege. We have observed too that Dr. Cairo has been traveling the media circuit looking for free board to vilify our candidate in order to demoralize and discourage his teeming APC partisans from supporting his rightful bid to recover his mandate stolen in broad daylight by a…