By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA The people of Isoko South Local Government Area and faithful members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Delta State have been charged to support the candidate of the Party, Dr. Ogaga Ifowodo, in the State House of Assembly byelection slated for September 11, 2021. A chieftain of the APC and Senatorial hopeful for Delta South Senatorial District, Dr. Sylvester Onoyona, in a statement said it was high time to move Isoko nation in the right direction and called on APC supporters and the masses to overwhelmingly support Ifowodo in his plan to redirect Isoko South in…
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In a bid to meet the yearnings and aspirations of it’s host communities, the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) Limited, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on Thursday handed handed over starter packs to forty women drawn from its host communities in Asset Management North, covering Kogi and Edo States. The NGC presented the starter packs to the participants of it’s Women Empowerment Programme, at a handover ceremony held at Top Rank Hotel Galaxy, Abuja. The women who were trained in 2016 but were not given their starter packs due to some logistics, were trained in…
The Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) sitting in Asaba has struck out a suit by Chief Mike Chukwuka Nwukoni on an application for an abuse of power and usurpation of power of the Attorney-General of the federation. In the petition submitted to the LPDC on the 30th of October, 2020 and titled “RE CHARGE NO. A/2060/2019: INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE V CHIEF COLLINS UCHE AFUWAH. A CASE OF FLAGRANT ABUSE OF OFFICE BY THE HON. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF DELTA STATE AND USURPATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS VESTED IN THE HON. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 174…
Value Rebirth and Empowerment Iniatiative (VREI) in partnership with the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD), Delta study centre has graduated 76 students in her 2020/2021 academic session. This was disclosed by Pastor Edewor Egedegbe, Executive Director, Value Rebirth & Empowerment Initiative (VREI) during the “4th Graduation and 5th Matriculation ceremony of Centre LSD Leadership School, Delta chapter. The ceremony which was held at Effurun near Warri had in attendance academicians including Dr Otive Igbuzor, the Executive Director, Centre LSD. Pastor Egedegbe said that the theme of the event, “Leadership and Effective Representation in…
By Nelson Agbajor Ahead of the 2023 gubernatorial election in Delta State, a political pressure group, Delta Great Movement, (DGM) has decided to support the immediate past Commissioner for Works, Chief James Augoye to enable him win the Delta State governorship seat. The group made this known during its inaugural meeting held on Tuesday at the Wetland Hotel, Ughelli, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. In his address during the meeting, the State Coordinator of DGM, Chief Mathew Kwode, expressed gratitude to all for the massive attendance. Kwode, who spoke on the theme “unveiling Project Augoye 2023”, noted…
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA The Deputy Governor of Delta State, Dcn. (Barr.) Kingsley Otuaro has highlighted early identification and acknowledgement of purposeful talents and potentials as one of the surest ways of making it in life. Otuaro noted this while challenging Nigerian youths to discover their potentials and turn them into commercial value to create employment opportunities thereby reducing poverty and crime rate in the country. Declaring open the 1-Day Youths Seminar organized by Aspire Global Conference, with the theme “Youths Capacity Building”, in Warri last weekend, Otuaro, in a keynote address advised youths to always diacover…
Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State will on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 handover starter packs to graduating pioneer one hundred and sixty(160) students of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) skills academy. This is contained in a statement signed by Mrs. Chinenye Ezonfade, Head, Media & Public Affairs Unit, DESOPADEC on behalf of management of the Commission made available to journalists in Warri, she disclosed that the ceremony will take place at PTI Conference Centre, Effurun at 7.30am. According to the statement, “Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of Delta State will grace the occasion as…
Delta Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Friday said the state had in its three decades of existence been a potpourri of diversity and inclusion, trials and triumphs and growth and stability. He stated this at the Gala and Award Night in Asaba marking the grand finale of a week-long celebration of the 30th anniversary of the creation of the state. At the event held at Event Center, no fewer than 18 distinguished Deltans, including Chairman of Zenith Bank, Mr Jim Ovia, Chairman of United Bank for Africa, Mr Tony Elumelu, Director-General of World Trade Organization, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and…
Gbajabiamila, Okowa, Wase, others bid mama Nwokolo farewell Speaker of House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, Delta Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa and wife, Edith, Deputy Speaker, Rt. Hon. Ahmed Wase, were among dignitaries, who bade Mrs Grace Nwokolo farewell as her remains were committed to mother earth on Saturday. The late Mrs Nwokolo is mother to Hon. Victor Nwokolo, the member representing Ika Federal Constituency in House of Representatives. Her remains were interred at her husband’s home town, Igbodo in Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta. Mrs. Nwokolo, 86, died in July, 2021 after a brief illness.…
By JOHNSON EBIGIDE The birth of every individual, no matter how demeaning his or her background, is a source of joy to not only the parents and the immediate family, but the people of goodwill in the society. Could it be that the parents have been childless since marriage or have been having just a single sex as children ? Could it be that it was simply an additional expansion of the family for cultural emphasis or a mark of productive potency !? What ever it is, a new arrival in any family is a thing of joy. As it…