Delta Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Thursday signed three Bills for the establishment of new universities in the state. Speaking at the ceremony at the Government House, Asaba, the governor commended the House of Assembly for the prompt passage of the bills. The bills, which were presented to Okowa for assent by the Speaker of the Assembly, Chief Sheriff Oborevwori who was accompanied by his Deputy, Chief Christopher Ochor and other principal officers, were for the University of Delta, Agbor; Dennis Osadebay University, Anwai and the University of Science and Technology, Ozoro. He recalled that the bills were sent…
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Delta State Government on Thursday said Asaba International Airport was not sold but only concessioned for 30 years to make for its adequate upgrade into a world-class airport, by the concessionaire. The Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, made this known while briefing journalists on the outcome of the meeting of the State’s Executive Council meeting presided over by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa in Asaba. Aniagwu said that under the concession agreement, the concessionaire would inject about N30 billion into the upgrade of facilities at the airport. According to him, the concession became necessary as the daily operation of the airport…
By FRED EDOREH It is normal for citizens to be concerned when any critical asset of the commonwealth is being privatised or concessioned. It is therefore important to educate the citizens, many of whom do not understand the peculiarities in the structure and operations of many assets, on what the issues are and the expected outcomes of some policies. Airlines and airports operations require steady huge capital investments for stability and competitiveness, still they remain tricky businesses. Let us ask ourselves, for instance, why it is that most Nigerian airlines have gone under, others operating at a steady loss and…
By OLOROGUN STEPHEN K. DIESERUVWE The Asaba International Airport was conceived and built by the administration of Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, CON, as a passenger and cargo airport. The foundation laying ceremony which took place on May 7, 2008, was performed by Chief Vincent Ogbulafor, the then National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP. The first flight to land at Asaba airport was a chartered Overland Airways flight from Abuja on March 24th, 2011, and the Airport has been operational since then to date. From reliable sources, the Asaba International Airport was built with approximately forty billion naira (N40b).…
Delta APC concurs with the saying that “government has no business in business”. This would mean that, the business of any serious minded government is to provide enabling environment for private businesses to thrive. It is on this above premise, Delta APC supports any government that is transparent in concesioning public properties. Unfortunately, the fraud called “concesioning of Asaba Airport”, will go down in history as the greatest bleak, shady business, and economic coup against Deltans! It is an affront to common sense that an Airport (business) wherein more than N40billion was invested, was concessioned for N4billion, and to yield…
By SPADE NG News Following some political detractors negative reactions to Senator Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s (SABAT) statement that he has never stolen public fund, renowned Niger Delta Human Rights and Good Governance Crusader, Comrade Billy Oghenerume Egbe yesterday, joined others reminding Nigerians on the outcome of Tinubu’s trial and travails by former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan between 2003 to 2011. Egbe disclosed that “When former President Olusegun Obasanjo formed the EFCC, many argued that his intention was to use it to witchhunt his political enemies. To some extent, they were right because it was through the instrumentality…
by FADAKA LOUIS With about 2 years to the next general elections in Nigeria, the plot to draft ex president Goodluck Jonathan to succeed president Muhammadu Buhari is thickening. AIF Media can authoritatively inform our readers and followers that without any distortion to the plans of those behind this 2023 Jonathan presidency, the Otuoke man will return to Aso Rock again. Those behind the Jonathan 2023 presidency are not leaving any stone unturned. They are determined to impose him on APC where he will serve only 4 years and relinquish power to them. Jonathan is the only person from south…
Federal government has been charged to initiate plans that would address the socioeconomic and infrastructural challenges bedevilling oil bearing communities as compensation for their huge imput in the nation’s economy. The Senior Political Adviser to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa Hon Funkekeme Solomon gave the charge while speaking at a live Delta TV programme TV Guest on Tuesday the 23rd of February 2021. He said the time was ripe for the federal government to put an end to the conspiracy move to deny oil host communities of their entitlements from the federation account stressing that most of the oil firms were not…
A Nigerian professor, Edwin Okey Chikata Ijeoma, who previously renounced his Nigerian citizenship, has been expelled from South Africa over bigamous marriage. Ijeoma, a professor of public sector economics at the University of Fort Hare (UFH) in the Eastern Cape had his citizenship revoked by the Ministry of Home Affairs after he fraudulently relied on a bigamous marriage to a South African woman to obtain naturalisation and citizenship. Prof. Ijeoma arrived in South Africa from Nigeria on a study permit in 1998 to pursue academic studies at the University of Pretoria. He obtained a PhD in economics in 2003. According…
BY CHARLES NWABARDI The Chairman of Delta State Independent Electoral Commission (DESIEC), Chief Mike Ogbodu has assured Deltans that everything has been put in place to ensure a free and fair Local Government elections slated for March 6, 2021, as he urged journalists to abide by the ethics of their profession by eschewing bias and emotions in their reportage. The DESIEC chairman said this while declaring open a workshop tagged “ETHICAL JOURNALISM: AN INDISPENSIBLE ASSET FOR EFFECTIVE COVERAGE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS” organized by the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission (DESIEC) in collaboration with the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ)…