Hundreds of Ijaw indigenes from Delta, both old and young, defied the heavy downpour which lasted for over an hour, besieged the Oginibo country home of the prominent Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), governorship aspirant and former Minister of Education (State), Olorogun Barr. Kenneth Gbagi, in Ughelli south local government area of Delta State, to pledged their unalloyed support for his 2023 governorship election. The Ijaw group by their act on Wednesday May 12th 2021, has deflated the camps of interested persons from the Delta South Senatorial District of the State who rumour said are also gunning for the seat.…
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Pioneer Director General (D-G) of Delta State Traffic Management Authority (DESTMA), Olorogun Stephen Dieseruvwe has instructed his legal team to commence legal action against one Mr Andrew Okurume, an Assistant Director cadre working with the Delta State Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Asaba head office. The Dieseruvwe’s legal action against the Civil Servant was contained in a notice signed by one Omes Ogedegbe, Esq, of OGEDEGBE & OGEDEGBE (Superior Chamber) Legal Practitioners Human Right Activist, House 92 Alegbo / Okoribi Road Effurun, Delta State, on the 8 day of May, 2021. SPADE NG News reliably gathered…
President of the Federated Niger Delta Ijaw Communities, FNDIC, Chief Bello Oboko says Prof. Benjamin Ogele Okaba, the newly elected President of the Ijaw National Congress, INC, and his executive council have the historic Kaiama Declaration and the FNDIC Oporoza Declaration as guide, going forward. The inauguration of the new executive council is billed for Friday, May 14, 2021. Oboko, who congratulated Prof. Okaba on his victory said while the Kaiama Declaration harps on resource control, environmental justice and self-determination within Nigeria, the FNDIC Oporoza Declaration additionally centres on equal political space for Ijaw wherever they are and other ethnic…
By JOHNSON EBIGIDE Members of the Redemption Team have rejoiced with the Director-General (DG) of the team, Comrade Felix Igbekoyi, as he gets new appointment as the Bureau Chief of the Leadership Newspapers in Delta State. The Redemption Team was the platform through which the Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Delta State, Comrade Michael Ikeogwu, won the union elections in 2020. Speaking at the temporary press centre of the union in Asaba, the state capital, the venue of the get together felicitation, Comrade Ikeogwu congratulated him for the appointment, adding that he was particularly happy…
By Charles Nwabardi A value system is a set of consistent ethic values and measures used in the purpose of ethical or ideological integrity. A well defined value system is a moral code. A cursory look at Nigeria from East to West, North to South by a real concerned Nigeria can show that the fore going definition has no place in Nigeria as a nation. In every civilized society with a value system, source of wealth of individuals and lifestyles are followed up to know what they actually do for a living but in Nigeria, the philosophy is “whatever you…
The Delta State Coordinator, PDP One Voice, a political pressure group within the Party, Hon. Pudiya Biakpara has described former Governor of Niger State, Alhaji Babangida Aliyu as an asset to the PDP and a key player in the politics of North and Nigeria as a whole. Honourable Biakpara who stated this while speaking on some national political issues in Warri,Delta State said members of the PDP must remain focused and united to have a chance of winning the presidential election in 2023. He observed that in the 2015 general election,the PDP did not have a good strategy…
The State Caretaker Committee Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, Prophet Jones Ode Erue, has commended the Deputy Senate President, Distinguished Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, for what it termed “quality representation” of the good people of Delta Central in particular, and Delta State in general. The message of goodwill and felicitation by the State Chairman (personally signed), said, “Delta Central and the State have not had it so good in terms of quality representation, exemplifies by Distinguished Sen. Omo-Agege, since Nigerian return to democracy in 1999. The audacious and political sagacity of the Deputy President of the Nigerian…
The Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) Limited, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has handed over starter packs to forty women drawn from twenty host communities in Abia, Akwa Ibom and Rivers States, trained in five different vocations. The NGC presented the starter packs to the participants of it’s Women Empowerment Programme, at a handover ceremony held at Golden TulipHotel, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The women who were trained in 2016 but were not given their starter packs due to some unforeseen circumstances, were trained makeup artistry, fashion and design, computer, catering and hair dressing. In an address,…
Delta State 2023 formost governorship aspirant, Olorogun Barrister Kenneth Gbagi, has charged the federal government to declare a state of emergency on the security system in Nigeria. Gbagi told journalists under the aegis of Delta Online Publishers Forum (DOPF) that the Nigerian security architecture has collapsed, hence there is need for an emergency declaration to salvage the system. The renowned security encyclopedia who is gunning for the Delta State governorship in 2023 and has been gathering support across board, said there is deception between the government and stakeholders in the nation’s security apparatus. The former Minister of Education…
National Coordinator of Niger Delta Grassroots Organization, NDGO, Itsekiri-born Comrade Weyinmi Olley says alternate plans should ensure crowning Olu Designate, Tsola Emiko, on schedule and not allow search for the missing sacred crown to set Warri Kingdom back. Olley spoke to newsmen in Warri, Friday, against the background of probe by the police in Zone 5 headquarters in Benin towards recovering the missing crown. Reports say the keys to the room where the gold and silver crowns and other paraphernalia were kept have been found. “Instead of thoughts of retrieving the missing crown for the forthcoming but imminent enstoolment, I…