STATEMENT BY SOUTHERN & MIDDLE BELT LEADERS’ FORUM, SMBLF (17-06-2022) The Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum (SMBLF) has berated the Governor of Delta State, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa for accepting his nomination as Vice Presidential Candidate to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. It is unspeakable and quite disappointing that Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, who is currently Chairman of the South-South Governors’ Forum, and a native of Owa-Alero in Ika North-East Local Government Area (one of the Igbo-speaking areas) of Delta State, would exhibit such barefaced unreliability. It bears…
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Delta State Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate for the 2023 General Elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has solutions to the numerous challenges bedeviling the country. Okowa said this on Thursday in his acceptance speech after his nomination as Vice-Presidential Candidate of the PDP at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja. He said that the solutions to Nigeria’s problems as a nation lay in Atiku’s book “My Covenant With Nigeria” and urged party members and all Nigerians to join hands with the PDP to rescue the nation from maladministration. According to him, we…
The Delta APC Gubernatorial Campaign Organization has warned the Delta State Governor and Vice Presidential candidate of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa not to use state funds to finance Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s campaign and other political activities. The campaign organisation said the call became necessary in the light of credible intelligence at its disposal that the 2023 General Election is a PDP conduit pipe to loot the state. It noted that the use of taxpayers’ funds and collective resources of Deltans to fund personal political ambitions was unacceptable, callous and inhuman. “It is sad that on a…
The Oyo State Government on Friday presented Nine thousand, two hundred and twenty-seven letters of promotion to primary school Teachers on Grade level 13-15 in the State. This was revealed today by the Executive Chairman, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, Dr. Nureni Aderemi Adeniran during the symbolic presentation of 2017-2020 letters to Seven Thousand, Four-Hundred and Sixty Teachers. He said the pending promotion letters are in fulfillment of Governor Seyi Makinde’s promises to teachers in the State. Dr. Adeniran noted that the category of teachers who received their letters of promotion were placed on a six years waiting period…
The Provost, Federal College of Education (Technical), Asaba, Delta State, Dr (Mrs) Josephine Anene-Okeakwa, has said that his appointment as the Provost of the college was divine as she never lobbied for it. Dr Anene-Okeakwa made the disclosure while speaking on the occasion of the 3rd year anniversary as Provost, organised by the Directorate of Consultancy Services, Federal College Of Education (Technical), Asaba, held at the Main Auditorium of the institution. The several award winning Provost who narrated the story of her humble beginning as a pretty trader while growing up at the popular Ogbe-Ogonogo Market in the capital city…
I heartily congratulate you, Your Excellency, Sen. Dr. Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, the humble, hardworking and down to earth Governor of Delta State on your emergence as the Vice-Presidential Candidate of our great party the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections. Your confirmation as Presidential running mate is no doubt informed by the confidence and trust reposed on you by our Presidential Standard Bearer, His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar, GCON, (Wazirin Adamawa), other PDP leaders, teeming members and supporters of our great party across the nation. You have again brought honour and pride to our dear State, Delta, where…
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, today, disqualified the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its governorship candidate, Biodun Oyebanji, from participating in the June 18, 2022 Ekiti State governorship poll. Justice Ekwo also held that the APC is not fielding any candidate in the election, having failed to comply with provisions of the Electoral Act as well as its guidelines in the conduct of party primary. The court subsequently sacked the APC and Oyebanji from participating in the governorship poll and ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to delist APC and Oyebanji from the list of…
By OGHENETEJIRI NYERHOVWO Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE)Delta State has as part of activities to mark the 3rd convocation ceremony is set to install His Royal Majesty , Oba Babatunde Adewale Ajayi, the Akarigbo & Paramount Ruler of Remo Land as the new Chancellor of the University. This was disclosed by Prof. ( Engr.) Akpofure Rim-Rukeh, Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun(FUPRE) at a media briefing, he said that 1,409 students will be graduating at the ceremony slated for Saturday, June 18, 2022. Prof. Akpofure also disclosed that the University. Would confer honorary doctorate degrees on…
By Ena OFUGARA The Urhobo word for lion is “Okpohkhrokpo”. Our sister tribe, of which Ibori also belongs to, the Itsekiris, call the lion “ejenakpu”. The hunter with his dane gun knows that after shooting a lion, and seeing trails of its blood, he must reload and fast, as the injured lion will look to tear him down And a lion is a cat And a cat has nine lives, the saying goes. So those who think Ibori dead, must count the times Ibori has “died” and risen again…feline. When Okowa decided to go against the arrangement to hand power,…
Controversial Catholic Priest, Ejike Mbaka has described the presidential aspiration of Mr. Peter Obi as a dream that will never come to pass. Father Mbaka made the declaration during his weekly prayer meeting on Wednesday. The popular Catholic Priest further described Obi as a stingy man and said its better for an old generous man to win the election than an stingy politician. Mbaka further said that for leaving Peter Obi out of his team, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar is now serious to contest for the nation’s number one seat. Recall Fr. Mbaka campaigned in the emergence of President Buhari…