By Ifeanyi Mbakogu The recent disclosure by the Minister of Digital Economy that the Federal Government would soon deploy the Five Generation network (5G) in Nigeria should come as a welcome relief, to all those who have been rankled by the inexplicable electoral amendment bill which requires that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), obtains clearance from the Nigerian Communications Commission before it the electoral body could transmit election results electronically. But before I go further on the e-transmission issue, it is apposite to put the 5G network issue in perspective. Obviously, the controversy over the health implications of the…
Author: Spade Nigeria
The business of government is regulated by existing laws. That is, anything done outside the law is null and void. Moreover, every law made by the legislature must have human face. It is on the above premise that Delta chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) condemns in totality the indiscriminate collections of levies from operators of Point of Sale (POS) in the State, particularly in Ethiope East, Udu, Okpe Sapele, Ughelli North and Isoko North LGAs. In Delta State, it is the Consolidated Revenue (Approved List of Collection) Law, and bye-laws of the different LGAs that govern what…
The business of government is regulated by existing laws. That is, anything done outside the law is null and void. Moreover, every law made by the legislature must have human face. It is on the above premise that Delta chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) condemns in totality the indiscriminate collections of levies from operators of Point on Sale (POS) in the State, particularly in Ethiope East, Udu, Okpe Sapele, Ughelli North and Isoko North LGAs. In Delta State, it is the Consolidated Revenue (Approved List of Collection) Law, and bye-laws of the different LGAs that govern…
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA Delta State Head of Service (HoS), Mr. Reginald Bayoko, mni, has reiterated that the yearly Senior Management Course for Senior Civil Servants, is a springboard to understanding and polishing an officer towards becoming a director and permanent Secretary before attaining the position of Head of Service which is pinnacle of the civil service progression. Bayoko stated this at the opening ceremony of the edition of the Seven-Weekend Higher Management Course, organized by the office of the HoS, in collaboration with the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON), for Senior Management Staff of the Delta State Civil…
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA The Chief Protocol Officer (CPO), Office of the Deputy Governor of Delta State, Mr. Franklin Ebiama Brialade, has concluded the burial arrangements of his mother, Mrs. Theodore Oruberi Brialade (Nee Tuedon). According to the invitation card printed and signed by Hon. Richard Tuedon and Franklin Brialade, the families of Buboubiri and Badeinmo of Ayakoromo Town in Burutu Local Government Area of the State on behalf of the children of the deceased, the burial ceremony would kickoff on Tuesday, September 7, 2021, with a Vigil Mass at the St Anne’s Catholic Church, Burutu, by 4pm. …
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…
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…