The Executive Director of Eye On The Future Initiative (EFI), a Delta State based NGO, Comrade Josephine Omodior has called on parents to keep their children indoors whenever it is raining, saying that the warning on the anticipated flooding in some parts of the country should not be taken for granted. In a Press Release on Sunday in Asaba, the EFI boss, expressed concerns about the lackadaisical attitude of some parents towards their children whenever it is raining and called for attitudinal change, especially with the impending flood. She lamented that many children have been swept away by raging floods…
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Delta North APC leaders have reaffirmed their support for Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, urging unity under his leadership to build on the 2023 general election achievements. This commitment comes as the Delta State All Progressives Congress (APC) sets its sights on claiming the governorship in the 2027 elections. At a recent public hearing of the Secretariat Subcommittee of the Olorogun O’tega Emerhor-led Reconciliation Committee for Delta North, held at the Maryam Babangida Center in Asaba, stakeholders presented memorandums advocating for party unity and focus under Omo-Agege’s leadership. By reaffirming their support for Omo-Agege, Delta North APC leaders demonstrate their determination to…
Senator Ned Nwoko representing Delta North in the National Assembly on Saturday revealed that he has submitted a total of six bills for recommendation on the floor of the Senate. In a post he made on X after arriving in Kano for a three-day retreat of the Senate Committee on the review of the 1999 constitution, Senator Nwoko said the review of the constitution was long overdue and he was excited over the development. He revealed that he was honoured to be part of the few Senators selected among the 109 Senators from across the country. According to him: “It’s…
The wind of progress is blowing through Anioma, driven by the relentless commitment of our most Distinguished Senator Prince Ned Munir Nwoko. His vision for the people has translated into tangible projects that promise to uplift and transform the senatorial district. Anyone with a sense of fairness can see that he takes his mandate to heart. Even from afar, it’s clear to see his dedication. Having the privilege of working closely with him, I can attest to it even more. He seizes every opportunity to raise the needs and aspirations of his constituents, whether on the Senate floor, in committee…
As Nigeria marks its 64th Independence anniversary, Director General of Delta State Orientation and Communications Bureau, Dr. Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe, has called on Nigerians to stop celebrating fraudsters and unscrupulous elements. Dr Oghenesivbe, gave the charge while speaking as special guest of the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, and a popular radio talkshow in Asaba on Saturday. He emphasized that this culture of celebrating ill-gotten wealth has contributed to the country’s socioeconomic woes and moral decay. He lamented that 64 years after Independence, Nigeria’s reputation was fast dwindling at the global stage due to acute corruption and primitive accumulation of wealth…
Eye on the Future Initiative (EFI) in Collaboration with Precious Family Aid Charity Foundation, on Friday held a sensitization campaign against cultism for students in secondary Schools in oil rich Delta State, aimed at kicking out the menace. The organizers implored the students to shun social vices capable of ruining their lives. The sensitization campaign tagged “Back to School” was held at Okpanam high School in Oshimili North Local Government Area. Addressing the students on the need to shun Cultism, the Executive Director of Precious Family Charity Aid Foundation, Mrs Patricia Gbemudu Advised the students not to disappoint their…
The Niger Delta Stakeholders Assembly (NDSA), on Saturday called on the Inspector General of Police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun to interrogate Anabs Sara-Igbe over threat to cause crisis in the oil rich Niger Delta Region, just as they said that he was being used by the Executive Vice President, Upstream, NNPCL, Mrs Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Mr Umar Ajiya to wage media war against the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Engineer Mele Kyari. The group in a Press Release signed by Akpoebi Awoalaye-Ofori (President) and Anetorufa Gabriel (Secretary) linked the…
Over 30,000 ex-agitators in the Niger Delta, on Friday opposed the planned protests across the country on October 1st. The youths vowed not to allow any protest to take place in the region on October 1st. The repentant agitators, who spoke through their leaders at a stakeholders’ meeting organised by the Presidential Amnesty Programme led by Dr. Dennis Otuaro, in Warri, Delta State, called on the people of the Niger Delta region to avoid protests ahead of the October 1, assuring that the region’s challenges would be addressed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration. The youths disclosed this Friday…
By Jane Uyi Orobosa Chaiii, what a shameful show of subservience. It is a sad, sad new day for Edo State. And please, don’t get it twist for a second, a New Edo is not rising anytime soon. No, not with a Monday Okpebholo, the fraudulently declared governor-elect of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. Since the stomach turning video of Okpebholo, with his deputy, Denis Idahosa, accompanied by a prattling old man renowned for his uncontrollable diarrhea of the mouth hit the internet, men and women of conscience have been shocked beyond reaction. History, they say, is…
Lucky Tubotu,an indigene of Bilabiri 1&2 communities in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has clarified the statements he made regarding armed youths recruited into the communities following heightened insecurity in the communities occasioned by the activities of Ebimene Abaka,Tekena Abaka and others. Tubotu in a statement in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State Capital titled “Setting the Record Straight,Clarifying Misunderstood Statement” said he only re-echoed what Ebimene Akaba and the Chairman of Bilabiri 1 community Tekena Abaka told the people that the armed youths in the communities were employed by an erstwhile Governor Elect of Bayelsa State to carry out a…