President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Senate to confirm Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) In a letter to President of the Senate, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, the President said he was acting in accordance with Paragraph 2(3) of Part1, CAP E1 of EFCC Act 2004. Bawa, 40, is a trained EFCC investigator with vast experience in the investigation and prosecution of Advance Fee Fraud cases, official corruption, bank fraud, money laundering, and other economic crimes. He has undergone several specialized trainings in different parts of the world, and was one of the…
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By ABEL JOHNGOLD ORHERUATA A Chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Delta State, Dr Onoyona Sylvester PhD, has called on its members in the State to tow the line of peace in the ongoing National registration and revalidation exercise. Onoyona made the call yesterday, February 15th, while speaking with newsmen in Abuja on the geniuness and challenges facing the exercise in some States of the country, especially Delta. He noted that it is not unusual in a political process to have differences in opinions, stressing that there has to be a workable method to move the party forward.…
An astute media practitioner in Delta State, Comrade Nelson Agbajor has been appointed as the Director General of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Publicity Campaign Committee in charge of Print/Electronic Media for the forth coming Local Government Election. Until his recent appointment, Nelson Agbajor is the current Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Journalists,NUJ Sapele Correspondents Chapel and a one-time member of the Delta State Council of the NUJ Cartaker Committee, Asaba. He is the publisher/Editori-in – Chief of Nel Xpress Magazine and Inhispresence Live Media Network an online plantform. Nelson Agbajor was a former Correspondent with the popular Sapele…
By: Nelson Agbajor The Executive Director, Finance and Administration of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Hon John Nani, yesterday night escaped death when a mobile policeman shot and killed a police inspector, attached to him at the Ajogodo area of Sapele, Delta State. Nel Xpress gathered that the Police orderly whose identify is yet unknown as at the time of filing this report, met his untimely death when he tried to intervened in a feud between his boss and another police officer allegedly attached to an oil company in Sapele. It was further gathered that trouble started…
President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that his government will protect all religious and ethnic groups, whether majority or minority in line with its responsibility under the constitution. In a reaction to reports of breakout of violence in some parts of the country by some ethnic and sectional groups, President Buhari warned that the government will not allow any ethnic or religious group to stoke up hatred and violence against other groups. The President condemned such violence and gave assurance that his government will act decisively to stop the spread of any such violence. He appealed to religious and traditional leaders…
BY CHARLES NWABARDI, The All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairmanship candidate for Isoko North Local Government Area in the forth–coming Delta State local government election, Honourable Cornelius Ugoh said that his regime will be for the people as his government would be for the upliftment of lives of the people of Isoko North Local Government Area. Ugoh made the submission during the Nigeria Union of Journalists organized and sponsored one-on-one media chat with Local Government chairmanship candidates of Political Parties in Delta State held in Isoko Development Union Hall, Oleh in Isoko South Local Government. Speaking, the APC Chairmanship candidate said…
By Patrick Ochei The All Progressives Congress, APC Chairmanship candidate for Isoko South Local Government Council election, Hon. Dcn. Mrs. Hoplyn Eruore Ayu has affirmed that she is a woman with clean political history, adding that she does not have any political godfather. Speaking during the Delta NUJ Media Engagement Programme with Chairmanship candidates in Isoko on her plans and programmes ahead of the Delta Councils’ election coming up on March 6, 2021, Hon. Ayu authoritatively affirmed she is a candidate to beat. She listed her 3-point agenda for Isoko South to include Peace and Security, Quality Primary Healthcare Delivery…
The Aniocha North Local Government leaders rose on Friday, February 12, 2021 from a stakeholders meeting expressing a total sense of commitment and unity to work together for the landslide victory of the party in the March 6, 2021 council elections. The leaders who converged at the country home of a former deputy governor of the state, Chief Benjamin Elue in Obior, stated that all structures in the party at the council level have resolved to work for the victory of the party. Among those at the well attended meeting of the leaders included the host, Chief Benjamin Elue, Dame…
Delta Government on Thursday announced the approval of the construction and rehabilitation of no fewer than 15 roads across the state at a cost of about N16 billion. This was part of the decisions reached at the State Executive Council meeting presided over by the Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa. Briefing newsmen after the council meeting at the Government House, Asaba, the Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, said that the roads approved were spread across the three senatorial districts for fairness and equity. Aniagwu listed the roads as construction of a bridge across River Ethiope in Umusume Quarters, Obiaruku; internal roads…
BY AJOS DAVID The emergence of HE, Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege from the small, sleepy village of Orhomuru, Orogun into the red chambers of the Nigerian Senate, having built a community-based, grassroots campaign could be likened to the biblical triumphant entry of the twenty 1st century to the people of Urhobo land, Delta Central and Delta State as a whole. Urhobo is indeed blessed and lucky to have Senator Ovie Omo-Agege at time we are experiencing great political and economic challenges caused by the lofty promises of past political jobbers who have plunge us into an almost irredeemable…