By Osita Biose Two indices that can easily draw attention to any rustic environment are its human and natural resources. Humans who are gifted to turn around things, turning the impossible to adorable features in their localities are quintessential in attracting the needed attentions, not only to themselves but their homesteads for greater development. Again, a sleepy, rustic community could burst into a beehive of activities, if suddenly a rare natural resource was found to be embedded in its bowels. Even without any hope of accessing such an alluring enclave, hard beaten pathways would be determinedly created to tap into…
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VIEW POBy Charles Nwabardi The Oxford Dictionary defines Slum as a squalid and overcrowded urban district inhabited by very poor people. However, the purpose of this write-up is not for an assessment of the dwellers of the slums but to try to unravel the correlation between some of the Slum dwellers and crime. Truly, there are slums in most cities in Nigeria just like many famous cities all over the world. In the foremost commercial city of Nigeria, Lagos, there are Ajagunle, Amukoko, Badia, Bariga, Makoko, Mushin to mention but a few. In Pakistan, slums are there-Orange, Munchar Colony and…
By SPADENG.Com The National Association of Seadogs (NAS) aka Pyrates Confraternity, Hispaniola-X Deck’s in celebration of the 2021 WORLD HEALTH DAY (WHD) has maintained that, the risk of not taking the COVID-19 approved and recommended vaccines is worse than the benefits of taking it. Dr. Atuyota Larry Orogun, a United States of America based medical practitioner, stated this at the Hispaniola-X Deck’s webinar discourse marking this year’s WHD, on Monday, 11 April,2021. As guest speaker of the Webinar, theme; ‘Geared Towards Building A Fairer, Healthier World Through Vaccination Awareness Campaign’ , Dr. Orogun stated that the COVID-19 vaccine was safe…
Executive members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) led by its president, Elder Chinedu Okoronkwo undertook a facility tour of the OPAC modular refineries in Kwale, Delta State on 9th of April with a mission to assess the refining capacity and perform oversight on the preparedness of the refinery as it is poised to provide finished petroleum products to bridge the constant demand and supply gaps of petroleum products in Nigeria which is brought about by the overdependence on the importation, with the attendant high cost in foreign exchange and challenges of logistics and delivery timeline. OPAC…
By Johnson Ebigide Delta State government (DTSG) has taken the next step at battling fire outbreaks with the employment of over 100 new intakes to fill in vacant positions in the fire fighting command in the state. Speaking to newsmen at the training ground of the new intakes at the Old Secretariat, Post Primary Education Board (PPEB) premises, Asaba, the state capital, the Director of Fire Services in the state, Mr. Eugene Oziwele, expressed gratitude to the state government for granting the request to beef up the manpower need of the command, adding that the command may have very many…
By Johnson Ebigide A terrible rainstorm in the late hours of Saturday April 10, 2021 has left one hospitalised and a gigantic sign post mounted atop the Summit-Illah Road by the premises of the Post Primary Education Board (PPEB) blown down in Asaba, the state capital of Delta State. An eye witness, Mr. Azuka Obuseh, Chairman, Smart Delicacy, whose eatery was close by, said that the storm pulled down the massive sign post, hitting the man who was hurrying away from his eatery as a result of the threatening rain, adding that the horrific sound of the fallen signpost and…
A foremost governorship aspirant and former minister of State for Education, Olorogun Barr. Kenneth Gbagi, has felicitated with the People Democratic Party (PDP) family and the candidate of the party who stood for the Saturday 10th April 2021, Isoko North Constituency By-election, Mr. Jude Ogbimi, for the landslide victory. In a press statement on Sunday April 11th 2021, signed by Olorogun Barr. Kenneth Gbagi and made available to newsmen by his Media Assistant, Kenneth Orusi, the industrialist, said Ogbimi’s victory is a well-deserved one, as the party went to the nooks and crannies of Isoko North Constituency to campaign vigorously.…
The Executive Chairman Isoko South Local Government Hon Victor Asasa has described the emergence of Hon Jude Ogbimi as the member representing Isoko North at the Delta State Delta State House of Assembly as an act of divine intervention. Asasa said that at a time Isokoland needed somebody to stand in gap of the great loss of our able parliamentarian Hon Tim Owhefere of blessed memory , God has brought in Hon Jude Ogbimi , a man with a vision, energy, a modest man who always places the populace first. The Executive Chairman paid glowing tribute to The Governor of…
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum on Saturday emerged University of Ibaban’s alumnus of the year 2020, the the fifth person to be such honoured since 1973. He also bagged the distinguished alumnus award of the premier university. The decision to recognize Zulum was reached by all time graduates of the University from all parts of the world through their alumni association. Zulum, a professor of soil and water engineering, was a student of the University during which he bagged an Msc in agricultural engineering, before obtaining his Phd at the University of Maiduguri in 2009. The presentation held at…
By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA Delta State Deputy Governor, Dcn Kingsley Otuaro, Bayelsa State Gov. H.E Douye Diri, Minister of Petroleum (State), Timipre Sylva and former Gov of Delta State, H.E Chief James Ibori, day attended the funeral service of Late Mrs. Yeiebimo-Ere Kasua Penawou (Nee Corsin), mother of Chief Joseph T. Penawou (The Iyasere of Akugbene Mein Kingdom) and Prince Kelly Kalanama Penawou (Special Adviser to Gov Okowa on Local Government Affairs) The service was conducted by the Practical Grace of God’s Mission Church, in Okpokunu, Burutu Local Government Area in Delta State. Born on May 19, 1947, Mrs Penawou…