Ex-agitators and former Youth Leaders of Isoko ethnic Nationality, under the auspices of Generals of Isoko Nation have passed a confidence vote on the Coalition of Eleven Isoko Youth Groups convened by, Mr. Iteveh Nur’ Ekpokpobe and Mr. Karo Edor who have been at the fore of the national putsch for the recognition of Isoko Nation in the pipeline surveillance contract of the federal government. The group, Generals of Isoko Nation, also called on the attention of the Presidency, the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, and the Management of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), to the attempts of some…
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By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA Towards drastically reducing unemployment in the State, the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, has graduated the third batch of its DESOPADEC Skill Academy composed of 173 graduands (50 and 123 women) all of whom have been presented full Business Starter Packs with additional N200,000 each to help them set up. According to the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Commission, Chief Askia Ogieh JP, the six months intensive training in various vocational skills and business management is aimed at transforming the teeming unemployed youths in the State, especially in the oil producing…
There are indications that the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State are at loggerheads as the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) takes over of the state chapter’s court cases against the opposition. The NWC overrode the state chapter which had challenged the conduct of legislative primaries of some opposition parties in the state. The cases which the Rivers State PDP instituted against the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Accord, Labour Party (LP) and others have advanced to the Court of Appeal, after the lower court delivered judgements…
The chairman of the Niger-Delta Development Commission(NDDC), Lauretta Onochie has enjoined the Delta State Tinubu/Shettima Support Group, to deploy efforts toward overwhelming successes for the All Progressives Congress(APC) in the impending serial elections, beginning with the February 25 presidential stanza, as this will guarantee the continuation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s enduring lagacies. Onochie, who is also the Deputy National Coordinator of the Women’s wing of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Counci, gave this advice while addressing the body at a recent meeting in Asaba. According to her, “We have to go all out in the quest for electoral victories, because we…
The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has applauded the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for listening to Nigerians and extending the deadline for swapping of the old naira notes for new ones by 10 days. The Caucus in a statement on Sunday night by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, said the 10 days extension of deadline from January 31, 2023 to February 10, 2023 was a welcome decision, saying it will ease the suffering as well as social and economic discomfort being faced by many Nigerians in accessing the new naira…
By Charles Nwabardi Smile communications, Nigeria’s number one mobile broadband 4G LTE services provider has expanded its footprint in Nigeria by launching Smile services in Kano City. Practitioners within the telecoms space, say it is a well-planned launch for a brand that has consistently delivered quality service in every city of presence. Kano becomes the 9th city in Nigeria where Smile offer its services. The citizens of Kano are already excited about the launch, with a lot of people visiting the Smile office at No C-2 Muhammadu Buhari Way Tudun Yola Kano. “Our customers in Kano will have unlimited FREE…
Spokesperson of Delta State Campaign Council of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe Esq, has described politicians who recently defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, as enemies of progress who by their actions and inactions openly endorsed continuity of poverty and hunger that is ravaging Nigerians since 2015 under APC national government. He made the assertion on Sunday during a public affairs radio programme in Warri, Delta State, saying that no right thinking politician with the interest of the people at heart would defect to APC that practically ruined the robust economy it inherited from PDP in…
All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has assured the people of Edo State that he will make money for Nigeria and create prosperity for the people of the state by ensuring the development of the gas deposits in the state. Tinubu speaking on Sunday at the town hall meeting in Benin to APC stakeholders and different trade groups and civil society organisations said under his leadership Nigeria will pipe gas to Europe and compete with Russia. He urged the people of Edo State to take back their state from Peoples Democratic Party by forging unity of purpose.…
The Delta State wing of the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Group has extolled Lauretta Onochie’s leadership attributes, which has inspired party faithful and the electorate alike, to identify with, and eulogize President Muhammadu Buhari’s laudatory accomplishments. Mrs Faith Anoki, the Ndokwa-East local government coordinator, made this commendatory statement, on behalf of all local government coordinators, in response to Madam Lauretta Onochie’s opening address at one in the series of the group’s meeting in Asaba. According her, “ The emergence of Lauretta Onochie as the NDDC chairman, as well as being the deputy national coordinator of the women’s wing of the Tinubu/Shettima presidential…
President Muhammadu Buhari sends warm greetings to retired Professor of Oral History, University of Ibadan, Prof. Bolanle Awe, on her 90th birthday, rejoicing with the renowned scholar, administrator and publisher on the landmark age, heralded with accomplishments. President Buhari joins family, friends and the academia in celebrating with Prof. Awe, whose influence stretches beyond educational institutions, within and outside the country, to include state and national governments, and multilateral organizations. The President felicitates with the former Commissioner of Education; Trade, Industries and Cooperative in Oyo State, who started her teaching career in 1960, obtained her doctorate in 1964, and got…