The Youths of Warri Escravos and Forcados in Warri South West and Burutu Local Government Areas of Delta State have expressed their displeasure by drawing the attention of the Federal and Delta State Governments, the Inspector General of Police and the general public, as well as the international community to the illicit and oppressive activities of Ocean Marine Solutions Limited (OMS), which will cause chaos in the creek of Niger Delta if its Chairman/Chief Executive Officer,Captain Hosa Okunbor, is not called to order. A statement made available issued in Warri by the leadership of the Central Youth Body jointly…
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In view of the ongoing consultation for the chairmanship of Uwvie local government area in the forthcoming elections, Director General of Ofoni Support Assembly, Comrade Henry Omodjota, has said that Chief Anthony Ofoni is the best candidate to fly the flag of the PDP in the local government elections. Comrade Omodjota while briefing newsmen in Effurun, said Chief Ofoni is a seasoned and grassroot politician and a community mobiliser in Uwvie local government area of Delta state. According to him, Chief Ofoni has made significant contributions to the growth and well being of the people of Uwvie and he is…
The Publisher/Editor-in-chief, Daily Watch has raised alarm over clandestine move by Niger Delta Minister Godwill Akpabio who is the supervising minister of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in connivance with crooked men of the Nigerian Police Force and Inspector General Police (IGP) to abduct him and do whatever thing they were instructed to do to the Journalist over his Daily Watch exposure of the monumental fraud in NDDC running to billions of naira that had attracted the Senate and National House or Reprsentative to set up various committees to probe the commission Interim Management Committee. The media learnt that yesterday…
Men of the Nigerian police, Warri Command in a commando style abducted three Journalists from their office at NUJ office, Warri Delta state without disclosure of their offences. The police in their patrol van drove to the office at about 4:30pm arrested one Mr. Omonigho Matthew of Daily Post online newspapers and sped off. The leadership of the union directed two other journalists Mr. Edeki Igafe staff of News agency of Nigeria, Mr. Francis Sadhere with the National Reformer and one Christopher to go to the Area Commander office, Warri following calls from Matthew Omonigho where he was being detained.…
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) Chief Orientation and Mobilization Officer (COMO) in Warri South local government area of Delta State, Comrade Julie Efejuku yesterday, continued the Agency’s Sensitization Campaign program to the rural areas of the Council. Comrade Efejuku, accompanied by the Delta State Commander of the War Against Indiscipline (WAI) Brigade, Commander Robert Obot and his team has been criss crossing the nooks and crannies of Warri South communities sensitizing the people on the precautionary measures to prevent contracting and avoiding the spread of the dreaded pandemic coronavirus. While disclosing that Warri South have twelve confirmed…
My Distinguished Leader, Pa Senator Chief (Dr) Edwin Kiagbodo Clark: Your imposing personal and family achievements in varying fields of endeavour could have long retired a faint-hearted one holding your kind of big dream for Nigeria. But you are vintage Senator Clark (Edwin Kiagbodo), OFR, CON; indefatigable! Congratulations as you, today, mark 93 years! You have sustained self-sacrificing clamour, refusing to be stopped by the drag of age, to advance the Ijaw nation to a glorious political height–the Johnathan Presidency! Your insistence that all parts of the nation should have a shot at the Presidency or equal political space, for…
Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Friday inaugurated two committees on community policing, saying it was in response to yearnings of citizens for local policing apparatus to check rising security challenges in the state. The committees are State Community Policing Advisory Committee (SCPAC) and State Community Policing Committee (SCPC). At the ceremony in Asaba, Okowa said that raising the committees was to deepen the security architecture in the state to enable insecurity issues to be nipped in the bud. According to him, the committees will help to bolster community policing to check criminal activities and assist the Police and…
The construction of a new office complex for the Secretary to the Delta State Government (SSG) and the Chief of Staff has commenced in Asaba. Commissioner for Housing in the state, Chief Festus Ochonogor, who disclosed this in Asaba, stated that erecting the structure was one of the legacy projects Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s administration was determined to bequeath to the people of the state. He noted that apart from the office complex for the SSG and the Chief of Staff, work has reached advanced stage on a six-storey High Court Complex in the state capital to reduce court congestion and…
Delta Government on Thursday said it had taken steps to grow the economy of the state amid the Coronavirus pandemic. State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu disclosed this in Asaba while briefing newsmen on some of the decisions taken by the government to rejig the state’s economy. He said part of the decision was to ask contractors handling various road projects to return to site and also to ensure that projects do not suffer on account of the COVID-19 pandemic. Aniagwu noted that the state was desirous to open up the economy for growth activities despite fighting the pandemic…
BY EDOJAH ESTHER The Delta State Contributory Health Commission (DSCHC) have inaugurated a ‘Covid-19 Crisis Support Response Team’ to curtail the spread of the pandemic coronavirus in the State. The Response Team comprised of Doctors, Nurses, Laboratory technician and Call Centre Operators to attend to Deltans and other Enrollees of the State Contributory Health Scheme, for medical assistance during the Covid 19 Lockdown in the State. Advising enrollees of the State Contributory Health Scheme not to panic or rush to any hospital without being referred and to avoid overcrowding in case of suspected symptoms, Dr. Ben Nkechika, the Director General…