By Livingstone Edesiri The hazy confusion is clearing; the obscuring agent of deliberate and depraved lies concocted to obfuscate the truth about the persona of the Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, and PDP governorship aspirant Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, seeking to fly the ticket of his party in the 2023 governorship battle for the Unity House, Asaba, is now transparent and able to be seen clearly. The serial blackmailers have called the gentleman names; terrible and disgusting names, and disseminated falsehood in extremely sentimental speech and writing; in order to give him the proverbial bad name and hang him.…
Author: Spade Nigeria
(By Edevbie Person to Person Movement, April 24, 2022) Edevbie Person to Person Movement is a grassroots socio-political pressure group with membership cutting across all local government areas of Delta South Senatorial District. The group is committed to garnering necessary support in Delta South for the 2023 Governorship ambition of Olorogun David Edevbie. The group hereby issues the following press statement on the unwarranted attack on Olorogun David Edevbie by the politically unstable Chief Mike Loyibo of Tuomo: 1. Ordinarily, we expected that Chief Mike Loyibo of Tuomo will use his unproductive interview with Saturday Vanguard to market the highly…
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta said he was committed to allowing God’s will prevail on the choice of who would succeed him in 2023. He said that he was not willing to lord himself on the people but to allow the will of God to provide Deltans with a worthy successor as governor. Okowa stated this on Sunday at the 70th birth anniversary thanksgiving service of Chief Oritsetimeyin Adams which held at Cathedral Church of St. Luke’s Anglican Church, Sapele. He commended the church and other leaders for their prayers and support, and urged them to pray that God should…
By Hon Prince Isire Michael Loyibo’s statements in the Vanguard interview of April 23 titled: “How PDP Chieftains Bypassed Okowa, Ibori to Pick Oborevwori,” exposes the desperation in Sherrif Oborevwori’s camp. While the various spurious claims he made in the interview are undeserving of any attention, we are concerned about the danger to the future of Delta State as contained in his threat to force Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and Chief James Ibori to lower the bar of Delta Governorship to enable him and his co-travellers foist an Agbero system on Deltans. Knowing that Governor Okowa has withdrawn his earlier falsely…
Delta State Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that the state government may terminate the contract of electricity supply project in Mosogar, Ethiope West Local Government Area over contractor’s non-performance. Okowa gave the hint on Friday, at the final passage rites of the Ovie of Mosogar, Samson Okirhiobo Imoyin-Omene, Udurhie I, at the Palace Gound in Mosogar. He expressed dissatisfaction with the performance of the contract, saying that he was disturbed to hear that the project had continued to suffer unnecessary delay on account of the ineptitude of the contractor. He said that the state government would take steps…
By Paul Osuyi The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) popularly known as Pyrates confraternity, has donated musical equipment to the Delta State Command of Nigeria Correctional Services (NCS). The equipment worth about N2 million include unit of equaliser; unit of cross over; two units of sound prince height; two units of 400 watts M-audio power amp; and power generating set. President of Asaba chapter of NAS, Engr. Emeka Okolo led other members of the chapter to present the items to the management of Delta State command in Asaba on Friday. Okolo told our correspondent after the brief presentation ceremony that…
For a lifetime of contribution to the development of medical laboratory science in Nigeria, some veteran Medical Laboratory scientists were honored with awards in Delta State. Amongst the awardees, was Mr Alfred Ekpokpobe who bagged an ‘award of honour for outstanding quality in impacting knowledge to future generation of medical laboratory scientists in Nigeria’. With about 50 years of practice and contribution to medical laboratory research in Nigeria, Ekpokpobe, who spoke to newsmen, said the award was an incentive to continue on his oars. According to him, the history of medical laboratories science in Nigeria like almost every other sector…
By Osigwe Omo-Ikirodah “Tinubu doesn’t take up an impossible assignment nor romance failure. He will shock opportunists and pessimists.” – Chief Bisi Akande Everything is now in place for the mother of all conventions, which will determine the presidential candidate for Africa’s largest political party, the All Progressives Congress, APC. The party has tentatively set the convention date for May 30/31 2022. Of course, the APC would prefer an electoral process in which delegates from the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory would choose the party’s representative or a consensus arrangement where the President alongside the…
By SMART I OFUGARA The reverend name Chief Obafemi Awolowo is synonymous with Free Education as it became a successful policy for empowerment, enlightenment, and resources for advancing society and human potential. It was such a cherished legacy that later generations of leaders embraced free education as it was good for the growth of society and the people. Across the old Western region (now Lagos, Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Ekiti,Ondo, Edo and Delta), the importance of free education was felt with the governors who governed these states between 1979 and 1983. The names of those governors have been remembered…
An aspirants vying for the seat of Oshimili North Constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly, Ekitu Kenneth Agbomah, haven lost his chance of emerging as one of the Ad-hoc delegates in his Ebu Ward, has allegedly led thugs to attacked the State Assistant Organizing Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Uche Egbuche. Ekitu Agbomah, who was arrested and detained at the Police Criminal Investigation Department in Asaba headquarters, allegedly boasted at the Illah Divisional Police Station saying; “In politics I can kill anybody and nothing will happen”. It was revealed that Agbomah was nominated as an…