By Oghenero Orovwuje Delta State Government has said it is irrevocably committed to the success of the 2023 Population and Housing Census coming up in the country next year. The state Governor and Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, made this known during a stakeholders summit on 2023 census organized by the National Population Commission (NPC), in collaboration with the state government, held at the Unity Hall, Government House, Asaba. Senator Okowa, represented by the Secretary to the State Government(SSG), Chief Patrick Ukah, said the theme of the summit: “Getting people involved” was…
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By Aruoriwo Ivovi The need for training and retraining of workers to develop their skills and abilities for effective and efficient service delivery has been reiterated. The Delta State Head of Service (HoS), Mr. Reginald Bayoko, stated this while declaring open a one-day Performance Improvement Workshop, organised by the Directorate of Government House and Protocol in conjunction with Messrs Farmers Consult for staff of the directorate, held at the Press Centre, Government House, Asaba. Mr. Bayoko, who stimulated the participants with several work ethics, nuggets, said that the Delta State Government would continue to give priority attention…
By Onoriode Etatsemi. A one-day Capacity Building Training Workshop for Legal Directors, Zonal Heads and Law Officers in the Department of Legal Drafting in the Ministry of Justice and relevant MDAs in the State will be organized by the Ministry in collaboration with a leading Training Consultant with foreign reach. According to a Press Release made available to journalists in Asaba by Mrs. Rita Abidemi Ekpemina; Director of the Department of Legal Drafting ,the Workshop will hold at the Conference Hall in Cluster B, second floor of the Professor Chike Edozien Secretariat on Wednesday, October 19 beginning from 10am. The…
By Onoriode Etatsemi. The Honourable Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice Delta State, Mr Isaiah Bozimo has identified reasons which subjected the Criminal Procedure law to Criticism Over the past twenty years. Mr Bozimo made this observation while delivering his speech on the occasion of the opening Ceremony of the 2022/2023 Legal year at the Ceremonial Hall, high Court of Justice, Asaba, Delta State. The Honourable Attorney-General said that the principal statutes governing Criminal Procedure are excessively inflexible and have not achieved their intended purpose of improving the administration of criminal Justice. Mr Bozimo maintained that the Criminal trial process remains…
Members of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists NAWOJ, Zone F, heartily felicitate with the National President of our great Union, the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Comrade Chris Isiguzo, on his conferment of the Award of the Member of the Federal Republic (MFR), by the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari. This National Award is well deserved given your visionary, focused and purposeful leadership style, as well as your calm, intelligent, compassionate, courageous and firm character, which you have displayed over time. You have consistently shown the stuff you are made of,…
By Abdulraheem Saad The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Interior, Dr Shuaib Belgore has reiterated the need for peace to reign in order to pave way for sustainable growth and development of our dear country. Dr. Belgore, who was a special guest of honour said this while delivering closing remarks at the Leadership Course In Preventive Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution organized by the National Orientation Agency (NOA) in Abuja. “peace is Indispensable and it is known to be a vital ingredient of sustainable growth and development of any nation. As an indivisible entity bound together by common destiny, Nigeria needs…
By Basil Okoh Atiku Abubakar has ordered a halt to every activity in his Presidential Campaign and recruited a team of high profile crisis managers to help bring Nyesom Wike back to his campaign organization. The men are Peter Odili, James Ibori and David Mark, one of the long term underhand dealers in Nigeria’s affairs. The truth has become starkly obvious to him contrary to all the lies spewed daily by his surrogates in the social and traditional media that all is well and progressing with the campaigns. He now realizes that he is being led to obvious failure in…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory on Thursday upheld the appeal of the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The court also discharged and acquitted the embattled leader of the proscribed group. Kanu had in his appeal dated April 29 and marked CA/ABJ/CR/625/2022 applied to be discharged and acquitted. Kanu was first arraigned on December 23, 2015, and was later granted bail on April 25, 2017. However, the Court of Appeal on Thursday declared as illegal and unlawful, the abduction Kanu from Kenya to Nigeria and quashed the entire terrorism…
The agitation of Youths from Isoko Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta Region over alleged marginalization in the pipeline surveillance contract has taken a new twist with a coalition and a 7-days ultimatum to the Federal Government to resolve the issues or face degeneration of social order. In a communique issue by a coalition of eleven Isoko Youth Groups drawn from the 19 clans of Isoko Ethnic Nationality and Diaspora spanning Bayelsa State and other regions of Nigeria, the coalition adopted the petitions of Isoko National Youth Council addressed to the Presidency on September 25, 2022. The Youth Coalition urged…
Delta Governor and Vice-Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Wednesday said one veritable measure for addressing insecurity in Nigeria was for States to operate their separate police systems. He stated this in his remarks at the annual conference of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) in Abuja, and noted that there had been a consensus among the citizenry for State Police in the country as a way of reducing crime rate. Okowa said that it was unfortunate that the Federal Government had remained indifferent on the issue, and assured that PDP administration would…