A group, Niger Delta Development Agenda (NDDA), has called on a group of legal practitioners, Lawyers For Justice Reform and others to properly verify their facts and provisions of the law and desist from maligning the good image of Hon. Stella Okotete, the Executive Director, Nigeria Export Import Bank (NEXIM). In a statement signed by its Chairman, Mr Iteveh Nur’ Ekpokpobe and Secretary, Comr. Karo Edor, issued in Port-Harcourt, the group stated that the Lawyers For Justice Reform petition was baseless, and laced with deliberate maliciousness to bring an illustrious daughter of Niger Delta to disrepute before the public. According…
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The Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has said if elected as the next governor, his administration would reactivate and fixed moribund industries littered across the State. He stated that the plan is part of his economic blueprint to boost business activities in the State. Omo-Agege, who is the Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, also assured the people of Ika Nation that an APC-led government in the State would be fair and just to Ika nation and other parts of Delta. The Delta Central lawmaker stated this on Thursday at Ward…
A former speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly and chieftain of the APC, Rt. Hon. Victor Ochei, says he is fully in support of the gubernatorial ambition of the Deputy President of the Senate and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, as the next governor of Delta State. Ochei, who spoke at the APC ward-to-ward campaign to Aniocha North LGA, said Omo-Agege will succeed Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as the next governor of the state in 2023. The former lawmaker described the Delta Central lawmaker as his friend and a honest politician who will…
The APC Delta State has lamented the lack of infrastructure and development in Anioma nation of Delta State. The State party Chairman, Elder Omeni Sobotie, made this declaration at Nsukwa, Aniocha South LGA of Delta State, during the ongoing APC ward to ward campaigns for the 2023 general elections. “It is a thing of shame that in 2015, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa came in the name of Anioma and having been given that opportunity, he wickedly punished the Anioma people by taking every development project to his hometown, Owa-Alero, at the expense of others. *But don’t worry, his days are numbered,…
The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu has assured that a Presidency led by Atiku Abubakar and Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa will bring in meaningful development that will impact positively to the lives of Nigerians. The Minority Leader, spoke Monday and Tuesday in Oshimili North Local Government Area, Delta State while canvassing for votes for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and all its candidates during the on-going rallies ahead of the forthcoming general elections A massive crowd followed Elumelu who was in the train of the Delta North PDP Ward Campaign Team led by the PDP…
Hundreds of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) supporters from Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta have dumped the Party for the All Progressives Congress (APC). The former PDP supporters, while dumping the Party, vowed to deliver all candidates of APC including Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Ovie Omo-Agege for President and Governor respectively. They stated that despite having the Governor in their locality, the little projects were executed by the APC-led Federal Government of President Mohammadu Buhari. The defectors were received into the APC by the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator…
By Olorogun Olori Magege Delta State has since 1999 ran on the wheel of equity, fairness and the stability, peace and cohesion occasioned by the presence of justice. This is why Delta State stands tall to be counted among the three most stable states in Nigeria today. The reality of the peace and stability that hold sway in Delta State is not by accident. It is the product of a deliberate decision and choice orchestrated by the leaders and which the people embraced wholesale for the good of all. This experience is what has given birth to and sustained the…
By Grade-One Clark This short but incisive exposition is not just an academic standpoint, but a factual narrative of the grand betrayal of a people. it unravels the bits and pieces that have in recent times tipped the odds and shifted the balance of power from the PDP to the APC as a new party of destination for Ijaw people. The Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa led administration adopted deliberate policies of Ijaw exclusion and isolation from mainstream politics and governance in Delta State. There is anger in the heart of Ijaw, the anger is underpinned on issues, as in: denial of…
Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) on Tuesday arrested two suspected abductors and rescued a female victim inside their car around Presbyterian Church, Yaba, Lagos The General Manager of LASTMA Mr. Bolaji Oreagba stated that the two suspected abductors were arrested by a team of personnel from the Somolu zone while on traffic monitoring patrol around the Yaba axis. He said, “Our officers on patrol and with the help from passersby chased and apprehended a Toyota Corolla saloon car (FST 60 RJ) after a lady in the back seat was heard shouting ‘kidnappers’ after the bridge coming…
By Oniobo Ofegor Collins (mnim) It is in public domain, the way and manner the Judiciary arm of government which is the beacon of hope, has been reduced to it’s lowest ebb by the Executive. This is a system that has been in place over the years but was, however, worsened by the current administration of President Mohammadu Buhari (GCFR) since inception in 2015. During the 2018 Presidential primary of the PDP, Alh. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, an aspirant in the Party then, publicly apologized to former President Goodluck Jonathan (GCFR) for leaving the PDP and helping to enthrone a tyrant…