Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Ndudi Elumelu, has been adopted as Sole Candidate by communities in the Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency ahead of the February 25 National Assembly elections. Elumelu, who represents Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency, was adopted as sole candidate for re-election into the House of Representatives at a Town Hall meeting with stakeholders and constituents from six communities in Oko in Oshimili North Local Government Area, Delta State on Thursday. The communities have expressed their determination to re-elect him given his impressive performance in the area of quality representation, constituency projects and citizen empowerment. Oko communities…
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By Suyi Ayodele There are two insects in Yoruba cosmology that are similar. But they are very distinct. One is oyin (bee). The other is agbon (wasp). Both equally sting in their unique ways. Oyin, for instance, is less aggressive and stings only when it is threatened. On the other hand, agbon is very aggressive, territorial, domineering and controls its space. While oyin and agbon live in almost similar nests (with oyin’s own a bit concealed), agbon openly displays its abode, daring anyone to come near it. Now, when these two insects set out to fight, oyin stings and leaves marks of the attack on its victims.…
The people of this country have been compelled to live under excruciating pains occasioned, mainly, by the contrived crisis in the petroleum sector. Nigerians have been at the mercy of the unscrupulous elements in the distribution chain who have sustained the artificial scarcity of the product since late last year. The unsavoury sight of the past has not only resurfaced in all the major cities of the country. It is also eroding the goodwill enjoyed by the Federal Government for the stability achieved in the past seven years. Nigerians have been living with scarcity of petroleum products for some time…
Eligible votes in Nigeria have been advised to vote out the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, on February 25, so as to pave way for good governance from May 29 under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Spokesperson of Delta State Campaign Council of PDP, Latimore Oghenesivbe, in a statement on Friday noted that Nigerians cannot afford to ignore the unnecessary excruciating financial hardship, Naira notes scarcity and acute poverty imposed on them by the ruling APC, adding that the only alternative to end the escalating mass suffering is to stay united against APC bad governance by giving block vote to…
PRESS RELEASE AN OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR IFEANYI OKOWA ON THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN DELTA STATE BY CHIEF (DR.) E.K. CLARK OFR, CON ON THURSDAY 2ND JANUARY, 2023 His Excellency, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State, Government House, Asaba. YOUR DICTATORIAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REIGN OF UNACCOUNTABILITY IN DELTA STATE Your Excellency, my letter will definitely come to you as a surprise because of my unusual silence over your nearly eight years of governance in Delta State. But my unusual silence does not mean I have kept a blind eye to some of your corrupt and misuse…
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…
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…