By Linus Okolo The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, Delta State Command has landed into troubled water, following the disappearance of 8pieces of truck tyres worth over 720,000, at 90,000 each, belonging to a road construction company where they secure. Trouble according to inside sources started when about 13pieces of tyres purchased on the 9th of February 2021, to be fixed on the company’s trucks, were stolen under the watchful eyes of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, Delta State Command, leaving only 5pieces. According to findings, on the 10th of February, the company’s store keeper, name withheld,…
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By Aminu Alhassan Kuba I used to think that the South West was somehow better than their neighbors to the east. I had admired people like Tinubu and Fashola. They did very well as governors. They continued doing well at higher level. They occasionally spoke well outside their home. Some of the traditional leadership also showed some level of sophistication and enlightenment. This is despite the fact that the press from that part of our country belongs to the lowest level of filth anywhere in the world as far as journalism and its ethics are concerned. Then Igboho happened. He…
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has congratulated Dr Njide Okonjo-Udochi on her emergence as first black female Physician-of-the-Year in the United States of America. This came as the world is celebrating the appointment of her elder sister’s, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as Director-General of World Trade Organization (WTO). In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, in Asaba, the governor said Deltans and Nigerians were proud of the outstanding accomplishments of the Okonjo family of Ogwashi-Uku in the state. He said that after the recent humble elevation of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, it was pleasing to hear that Okonjo-Udochi had…
Ahead of the scheduled Saturday local government Elections in Delta State, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State, Dr. Sylvester Onoyona PhD, has charged all faithful of the party in the State not to relent nor dissuaded by what he described as showoff campaigns of the State ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Onoyona gave the charge in a statement circulated in Asaba on Thursday, noting that there was nothing new in their alleged makeshift campaigns. The APC chieftain who urged Deltans to vote for his Party that the APC was reliable at all times, charged…
Gbolahan Gbadamosi Is this proof that the old hand – Magu – refused to do what is right? Or is it that the new hand – Bawa – is now being pressured by unseen hands to do something urgently? Or is it that Bawa has a personal score or knows something we all don’t know which he now wants to investigate properly? Whatever is the case, I will argue that it doesn’t speak well of successive governments since 2007 that we are investigating a man who is not in office 14 years after he left office especially when such a…
By: Nelson Agbajor As part of efforts to make the Timber City, Sapele local government area of Delta State a more peaceful and crime free society, Military joint operation has invaded and destroyed some notorious criminal hideouts and other secret places where cult activities are being carried out in Sapele and its environs. The joint Operations which was carried out by men of the the Nigerian Army, Navy, DSS, Civil Defence Corp and Vigilante groups, saw men and officers of the various formations invading nooks and crannies of Sapele main town and interior settlements to fish out criminals in the…
Democracy is the government of the people, for the people and by the people. That is, it is the people (Electorates) who determine who lead them in any democratic setting. Delta APC, having it at the back of its mind that it is God and the electorates that give power, encouraged all its Candidates to transverse the length and breadth of the different Units and Wards in the different Local Government Areas of the State to solicit for votes. The Party states with all sense of responsibility and truism that information from the field shows that the Party’s Candidates have…
The Delta State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has commended its candidates and campaign organizations in all the Local Government Areas of the State, for the peaceful, colourful and orderly manner they conducted their comprehensive campaigns, in preparation for the forthcoming Local Government elections and predicted a landslide victory for the party in the March 6, 2021 council polls. This assertion was contained in a Press Release by the PDP State Publicity Secretary, Dr. Ifeanyi Osuoza, who further warned the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, and other political parties participating in the polls, to desist, in their own…
AS countdown begins for the March 31, 2021 Maris Public Service Lecture, the Unity Hall, Government House Asaba, Delta State has been announced as the new venue for the lecture. The lecture, with the theme “Effective Tax Administration For The Delivery Of Democratic Dividends”, was initially to hold at Orchid Hotel, also in Asaba. Comrade Fidelis Egugbo, Special Assistant, Media to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State, who is also secretary to the lecture organising council, disclosed this on Tuesday in Asaba. He, however, noted that the choice of the Government House as the new venue for the lecture was…
BY SAM DUVWODE Delta State Governor, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa has called on the National Assembly Joint Committee on Petroleum Industry Bill, (PIB) to enact a legislation that will encourage host Communities participation in the industry in the interest of peace, fairness, equity and justice. Governor Okowa made the call yesterday at the Governor’s Annex, Warri during the Town Hall meeting of National Assembly Joint Committee on Petroleum Industry Bill and Host Communities in Delta State. The governor who was represented by his Deputy, Barr. Kingsley Otuaro, said the visit and meeting by the committee on PIB was most apt…