By Precious Igbonwelundu Claims by Mary Daniel, the Oshodi amputee hawker that she lost a leg in an accident that killed all passengers, including her parents when she was a teenager, have been discovered as false, The Nation learnt on Wednesday evening. Daniel became a sensation weeks ago after pictures of her selling water at Oshodi emerged on social media and attracted sympathy from Nigerians across the world. Daniel, in an interview, claimed she was an orphan with a baby and an aged grandmother to fend for. She narrated how life dealt her several blows and she had to drop…
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By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA The Governments of the South-South zone of the country have called on the National Boundary Commission to clearly describe all approved boundaries for Gazetting. The stakeholders made the recommendation in a Communique released at the end of a two-day interactive session organized by the National Boundary Commission with the States’ Boundary Committees in the South-South (SS) Geo-Political Zone at Unity Hall, Government House, Asaba, Delta State on 27th and 28th April, 2021. The interactive session was primarily designed to enable relevant stakeholders share thoughts and experiences aimed at deepening…
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA The Governments of the South-South zone of the country have called on the National Boundary Commission to clearly describe all approved boundaries for Gazetting. The stakeholders made the recommendation at a two-day interactive session organized by the National Boundary Commission with the States’ Boundary Committees in the South-South (SS) Geo-Political Zone at Unity Hall, Government House, Asaba, Delta State on 27th and 28th April, 2021. The interactive session was primarily designed to enable relevant stakeholders share thoughts and experiences aimed at deepening relationships among critical Stakeholders with a view…
From Bulou Kosin The Delta State Government has warned Chief John Ossai or any other person or group of persons against parading selves as Okpala-Uku (King) in Obiaruku pending determination of who is senior between contending parties. Following a meeting last week in Government House, Asaba, with the Deputy Governor who was represented by a Committee led by Chief Edwin Uzor, Special Adviser on Peace-building and Conflict Resolution, the Chairman of Ukwuani local government area of the state was directed to “investigate and identify the senior between the two claimants to seniority and hence Okpala-Uku-ship title. The Chairman of council…
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa has urged the National Boundary Commission and the Boundary Committees of the States in the South-South zone, to look through and properly x-ray the challenges boundary delineation in the zone and come up with fresh ideas and responses on how best to surmount these challenges. Gov Okowa made the call in Asaba today, during a A 2 -Day interactive session of National Boundary Commission with States’ Boundary Committees in the South-South Geopolitical Zone holding in Asaba from 27th to 28th April, 2021. Gov Okowa, who was represented by his deputy,…
By Fred Edoreh The eviction of thousands of businesses at the National Stadium, Lagos, mid-2020, came as a shock to many. It was more so as the action was taken after several months of business lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic and, worse still, the businesses were given only about two weeks to vacate after which their shops and structures were demolished. On a rough estimate, the facility hosted about 5,000 businesses and jobs on which many anchored their livelihood for years. All got lost within a twinkle of eye and many of the victims, unable to recover,…
BY SAM DUVWODE The Delta State Government has asserted that it will exhaust all the mechanisms of dialogue and peace building in addressing the agitations of Oil communities in Delta State over the issues of oil spillage. The State Deputy Governor, Barr. Kingsley Otuaro gave the indication yesterday during a routine meeting with the impacted ethnic nationalities of Ijaw and Itsekiri at the Government House Annex Warri. According to him, “Oil spillage has become a recurring environmental disaster to riverine communities In Delta State. The recent spillage within the excravos axis has prompted the Ijaw and Itsekiri ethnic nationalities of…
BY SAM DUVWODE Delta state will surely miss the wisdom and inspiration of the former chairman of the Delta State PDP elders council, Chief Dennis Etaluku, who passed on recently. Those were the tributes of the State Deputy Governor, Barr. Kingsley Otuaro while on a condolence visit to the family of the Late Chief Dennis Etaluku at his residence in Warri. Barr. Otuaro noted that, late Chief Dennis Etaluku before his death, has been a partner in progress with the state government in resolving political issues and promoting the traditional institution. The state deputy governor who condoled with the bereaved…
By Emmanuel Elebeke In a letter to the Managing Director of Channels Television signed by the Acting Director General of the Commission, NBC, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, the Commission referred to Channels 7pm live broadcast programme of Sunday, 25th April, 2021, in which it accused the TV station of allowing a leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB to make secessionist and inciting declarations on air without caution or reprimand by the station contrary to the broadcast code.
I didn’t start to be proud of Jagaban when he rescued SW or Nigeria. He was my Leader when he rescued only LAGOS and 5 Progressive States were stolen from AD by OBJ in 2003…When he was pushed out of the AD by Afenifere and OBJ(who hijacked AD Structures and made the then AD Chairman his Special Assistant) after the gruesome murder of Bola Ige, he was my Leader. When he formed AC a platform for the then Dejected SW Progressives, he was my Leader. When the hope of Progressives was dimmed and oppression by the PDP was at its…