By FEMI ADESINA The country has been agog this week with fallout from the signing of the long-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law. That legislation has now become Petroleum Industry Act (PIA). President Muhammadu Buhari has done what Napoleon couldn’t do. Again and again. The Bill had defied Olusegun Obasanjo who introduced it, got the better of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua (God rest his soul), worsted Goodluck Jonathan, but has finally been subdued by Buhari. The man has proven to be adept at concluding things that had long trounced and vanquished many leaders before him. The PIB overwhelmed the first…
Author: Spade Nigeria
Delta State Government on Thursday said it would partner with the World Bank in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in the state. The State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa stated this when he inaugurated the Delta State Project Steering Committee of the Nigeria COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Project (Co-PREP), at the Government House, Asaba. The governor, represented by his Deputy Governor, Deacon Kingsley Otuaro, said that the committee will oversee the implementation of Co-PREP projects at the state level. Otuaro said the steering committee headed by the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mordi Ononye, will also review progress reports and oversee…
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA Delta State Deputy Governor, Dcn. Kingsley Burutu Otuaro, has maintained that the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s led administration was committed to adhere to the Federal Government’s guidelines and International best practices in the fight against Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). Otuaro stated this when he inaugurated Members of the Delta State Project Steering Coordinating Committee of the Nigeria COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Project (Co-PREP), in Asaba. While praying for a quick end of Covid-19, Otuaro noted that the heartbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in the early part of the year 2020 was an ill wind that blew the world…
By SHARON IVOVI In a bid to improve professionalism and enhance the capacity of educational managers in the Delta State Basic Educational Sector towards the effective implementation of Teacher Professional Development (TPD) Programmes, not fewer than fifty four Educational Managers in the state have been trained by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) in collaboration with the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB). Declaring the four day training workshop opened with the theme “The Role of Educational Managers in the Implementation of Teacher Professional Development (TPD) Programmes”, the Executive Chairman Delta State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Hon. Sunny…
THE people of Ushie in Ndokwa East local government area of Delta State, has debunked claims that they have a King. In a rejoinder to a news report titled, “Excitement As The Uloko Of Ushie Returns,” the people observed that the sponsored story was designed to cause intra-communal crises and gave newspaper houses that published the news item seven days to publish a retraction or face legal actions. According to the rejoinder which was signed by Goddy Emeli, the Okpara-Uku of Ushie, Mr Felix Opute, President-General of Ushie community, Chief Jacob Okpufe, the Odogwu-Ebi of Ushie, Chief John…
A popular medical doctor and founder of UFOR Hospital in Ughelli, Delta State, Dr. Peter Claver Obakponovwe, is dead.The renowned medical doctor who had been sick reportedly died on Wednesday morning. He’s one of the first Urhobo trained medical doctors in Urhobo to establish a private hospital in Delta State. The deceased hailed from Ufor, a satellite village of Okpara Town in Agbon Kingdom, Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State. Culled from Urhobo Messenger
By Ndutimi Alaibe We have been in this season of bad news for too long. When are we getting out of it? When will death give up on us? Who can stop death from claiming our best in business, in politics, in leadership, in the military, in sports, in everything? Where did we go wrong? No death is good news. Every life has its value. God created everyone for certain divine plans and purposes. Why should death keep us in constant tears? You never know who is next on the line until the phone rings at an ungodly…
The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives congratulated former military President, Gen. Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida GCFR, as he attains the octogenarian age of 80 years. The Minority Caucus celebrates Gen. Babangida as a noble and dignified leader, an exceptionally detribalized statesman, whose commitment towards the unity, stability, national cohesion and economic development of our nation has remained unwavering. Over the years, Gen. Babangida, whose legacies in office cut across all sectors of our national life, has particularly remained a quintessence of humility, tolerance and nationalism in the national quest for mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, political…
The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives mourns the death of eminent statesman and former Deputy President of the Senate, Distinguished Senator Ibrahim Mantu. Senator Mantu was an exceptionally patriotic leader, exemplary democrat, very brilliant and resourceful legislator, who deployed his energy, experience and skills in serving our dear fatherland. As a lawmaker and particularly, as the Deputy Senate President, Senator Mantu played pivotal roles in upholding the principle of separation of powers while enhancing lawmaking and oversight functions of the legislature for good governance in our country. His roles as the Chairman of the Joint…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Delta State, urges Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to step into the economic war brewing between the Asagba-In-Council and the Chairman of Oshimili South Local Government Area of the State. The call becomes inevitable in view of the fact that Asaba is now a cosmopolitan city, and a home to people who are not indigenous to the City. Besides, the squabble between the Asagba-In-Council and Oshimili South Local Government Council Chairman could be interpreted wrongly or rightly by members of the public, particularly the Indigenes as an affront and denigration of the traditional stool, and/…