By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA The Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka, today, offered academic certificates, diplomas and degrees to a total number of twelve thousand, nine hundred and twenty graduands. The DELSU Vice Chancellor, Prof. Andy Egwunyenga disclosed this numbers in his speech at the Convocation ceremony. He said the summary of Postgraduate Degrees, First Degrees and Diploma for the 2018/2019 Session was 4465. That of 2019/2020 Session was 4998, while that of 2020/2021 Session was 3457. Making a grand total for the three sessions12920. Egwunyenga said the university has consistently kept faith with its mandate of producing quality graduates who…
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Immediate past Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, CFR, has commended Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for picking Dcn. Kingsley Otuaro as Deputy. That Otuaro’s emergence was responsible for the ongoing peace in many parts of the State. Uduaghan, who defined the Delta State Deputy Governor as a veteran in Peace, Conflicts and Security management, made the commendation when he received the foremost Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship aspirant Barr. (Dcn) Kingsley Burutu Otuaro and his campaign train at his country home in Koko, Warri North Local Government Area. He noted that Otuaro’s emergence as Deputy Governor took…
By Ovedhe Hezekiah. As part of his contributions towards the growth and development of Ughelli Kingdom, Olorogun (Engr)Omonefe Uwanogho has built and presented a website to the executive of Ughelli Descendant Union UDU in other to archive and showcase the activities of the kingdom in the global space. Speaking while presenting the website, www.ughellidescendantsunion.org at the royal palace hall in Ughelli North local government area of Delta state, Uwanogho disclosed that “The world is going global and it is time for our kingdom to usher and archive all her activities, culture, customs and traditions into the global space. He said,…
Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa has reinterated the commitment of the present administration towards empowering the youths through the various empowerment policies of the government. Okowa stated this at the commissioning of Wetland Microfinance Bank corporate Headquarters at Effurun/ Sapele Road, Uvwie Local Government Areas, Delta State. Okowa represented by His Deputy, His Excellency Deacon Kingsley Burutu Otuaro said, “I bring you well wishes and congratulations from His Excellency Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa. May I quickly say that it is heart warming to see and hear of Wetland Microfinance Bank over two decades of operations in the financial institution…
By Umukoro Oghenekaro The fallout from the South South PDP Governorship Screening held in Port Harcourt on Thursday has raised a red flag on the possibility of the PDP offering the Delta State Governorship to the opposition All Progressives Alliance on a platter of gold with Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s insistence on Sheriff Oborevwori as his preferred candidate. It emerged that at the panel that Oborevwori was confronted with series of serious petitions against him, one of which was discrepancies in his names and certificates. According to the facts in a petition submitted by some concerned members of Delta PDP, while…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Dr. Iyorchia Ayu has applauded the Minority leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu for his outstanding contributions towards human capital development of the people in his Aniocha/Oshimili Federal constituency, saying that Delta State was very lucky to have such an outstanding personality. Speaking on Friday at the 2021 edition of the Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu’s empowerment programme for the people of his Federal Constituency, held at the Cenotaph, Asaba, Dr. Ayu acknowledged that Elumelu who represents Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives had done…
By Christian Ogoh Property worth several millions of naira at the General Hospital, Agbor- Alidinma in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State has been destroyed by heavy rainstorm. The storm which preceded the rain had left several roofs and windows at the hospital and other buildings in the community in sorry situation. According to one of the nurses who was on duty, Mrs. Josephine Okwuchi, “we thought the end of the world has come, as the windy situation was beyond imagination.” “Although, no life was lost, some hospital workers sustained minor injuries in the process of rescuing some patients…
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA Prof. Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba, of PLO Lumumba Foundation, Nairobi Kenya, has noted that it is time to make Education in Africa count for Africans not to be ignored in the committee of Nations. Lumumba stated this in his Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka, 30th Anniversary Lecture, he delivered today to a mammoth crowd cut across the country that besieged the 1000 capacity Lecture Theater, Site III Abraka. He asked why would African not be ignored in the committee of Nations when we have Engineers but we cannot produce our cars, Agriculturists but we cannot…
Recently, the social media has been flooded with debate, assertions, fuss and trading of venoms over the need for the incoming Governor of Delta State to have a plethora of Degrees from several Higher Institutions both within and outside Nigeria as in their opinion, performance can only be driven by such plethora of Degrees. After a careful consideration of the above, I have come to the irresistible conclusion with all due respect, though that the emphasis on degrees as the sole indices for performance is misconceived and made out of either ignorance or pure sycopancy. I want to quickly point…
By Patrick Ochei The Delta State Capital Asaba, was on Thursday, 28th April, 2022, agog with the visit of the Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo. The President who landed at the Asaba International Airport at about 2:48pm, immediately moved to the Palace of Asagba of Asaba, HRM Obi (Prof) Chike Edozien to brief him of his intention to contest the Presidency of the country. He told Asagba that he has garnered enough experience both as Vice President in the past seven years and Acting President at various periods, to be the President that the country has been yearning for. Osinbajo…