The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has revoked the broadcast licences of Silverbird TV, AIT, Raypower FM, and Rhythm FM amongst others over failure to renew their broadcast licences. Director General of the NBC Mallam Balarabe Shehu also directed its state offices to liaise with security agencies to ensure the shut down of the operation of these stations within the next 24 hours. Culled from Channels TV
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By Nneka Glory Nwachukwu The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Friday, August 19, has reserved date for judgement in the appeal to upturn the judgement of the Federal High Court which disqualified Rt Hon Sheriff Oborevwori in the Gubernatorial primary of the Delta PDP and ordered his substitution with Olorogun David Edevbie as the lawful candidate of the party for the 2023 Governorship election. The court which last sat on August 8 fixed hearing for August 19 and at the end of the hearing the judges announced that they will communicate a date for the delivery of judgement…
The convener of the David Edevbie Movement’23, Comr. Tomi Akporoghene Wojuola has stated that the position taken by the Delta Unity Group was timely and necessary, especially where it inferred that Olorogun David Edevbie is the valid and only candidate of the People’s Democratic Party as it stands. In a statement made available to the press, Comr. Wojuola stated that truly, as the Delta Unity Group resolved, the unity of the People’s Democratic Party was sacrosanct towards winning the 2023 general elections hence the need for all stakeholders to avoid making statements that would further disparage members. “I…
By Nneka Glory Nwachukwu Pilgrim Baptist Mission/Association of the Anioma Delta Baptist Conference, with its headquarters in Issele-Uku, in Aniocha North Local Government Area, Delta State, is set for the Centenary Celebration of the Mission, founded in 1922, by the late Rev. Dr. Samuel Nwadiei Martin. According to a statement by the Chairman of the Centenary Celebration Committee, Rev. Gabriel Okpala and the Secretary, Rev. Samuel Ugbaja, the week-long centennial celebration will be declared open on Monday by the Moderator and Spiritual Leader of the Mission, Rev. Moses Ekene Okolie, at the Pilgrim Baptist Cathedral, Issele-Uku beginning at 10am, with…
By Oludayo Tade The National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates confraternity) which originated from the University College, Ibadan in 1952 with membership across the globe is a humanitarian and charitable organization with a creed to fight all social ills and conformist degradation. They are against moribund convention and tribalism but stand for humanistic ideals, comradeship and chivalry. The Pyrates Confraternity held their 46th Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Ikeja Lagos between August 4 and 6, 2022. It was attended by over 2000 members from different ethno-religious backgrounds and from different parts of the globe. The AGM which would have gone unnoticed…
By Abdullahi O. Haruna Serious people are too engaged to be unionizing, almost every workforce in Nigeria is unionized. You have family union, tribal union, clan union, senior and junior staff union, transport union, even touts have union; in all of these, non of these guys are producers of tangible goods and services- they leech on the system for survival. And most of these unions are nothing but self-serving contraptions; they are people in search of power and wealth. The reason union leaders are richer than the people they represents. As a student leader, I was almost impeached because…
By Nneka Glory Nwachukwu A new political pressure organisation, Delta Unity Group, has called for the unity and commitment of all Deltans to the success of the Atiku/Okowa PDP Presidential ticket as well as the Delta Governorship mandate of Olorogun David Edevbie in the 2023 General Elections. The call is the highpoint of the communique issued by the group at its first General Assembly held in Kwale, the headquarters of Ndokwa West LGA, on Wednesday, August 17. The Delta Unity Group, a convergence of long standing, prominent and emergent leaders of the Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) drawn from…
The race to the completion of the 27-kilometre Lagos Blue Line Rail Mass Transit has begun, with the launch of the last track beam (T-beam) of the rail track on Wednesday. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu witnessed the historic moment and personally flagged off the engineering procedure held at the site of the iconic Marina station of the rail project. With the laying of the final T-Beam, all difficult civil works standing in the way of the Lagos Blue Rail Line, which started in 2012, have been overcome. The contractor – China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) – will now go ahead…
By Emmanuel Ochayi Isaac, the younger brother of former Ekiti Governor Ayodele Fayose, has said the Labour Party(LP)’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi needs at least N50bn to win in 2023 Fayose said Obi’s online popularity is not enough to secure victory, emphasising he needs N50bn to defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He also stressed the Labour Party presidential candidate lacks the political structure to win the contest. In a video, the younger Fayose said Tinubu has the money and structure to become the next President. “Out of all the candidates, Obi is the…
By Nneka Glory Nwachukwu The House of Representatives candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Ika Federal Constituency, Hon. Chief Doris Uboh, has joined other members of the APC in Delta State to celebrate the State Chairman Of The APC, Elder Omeni Sobotie on his birth anniversary. In a Press Statement issued by the her Director of Media, Mr. Donald Igudia, Hon. Doris Uboh lauded the Delta State APC chairman for providing visionary leadership for the Party since he assumed office. While commending Sobotie for his enormous contributions towards the stability of the APC in the State and nation…