SPADE News. A police inspector and two rank and files attached to the Delta State Police Command, State Headquarters, Asaba, were on Saturday night, attacked by suspected bandits in Asaba, the Delta State capital. Two rifles were also allegedly reported to have been carted away by the bandits during the attack on the policemen, who were said to be on a stop – and – search duty in Asaba. The victims were reportedly said to be manning the NIPPI Point at Inter-bau roundabout by ASCON Oil fuel station in Asaba, where they were machetes by the bandits. Sources disclosed that…
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By Bulou Kosin The Acting Governor of Delta State, Deacon Kingsley Burutu Otuaro, says the people of Anioma should sustain the prevailing peace as the state government prepares to scale up development across the state. Otuaro spoke as the Organization for the Advancement of Anioma Culture (OFAAC) led by Arc. Kester Ifeadi, paid him a courtesy call where they congratulated Senator Ifeanyi Okowa and Deacon Kingsley Otuaro on their re-election. The organisation used the avenue to invite the Acting Governor for OFAAC’s cultural outing scheduled for April 21, 2019. Thanking the Anioma people for their contributions towards the re-election of…
By Abel Johngold Orheruata Flagging off the sensitization to curb post election violence, other security challenges, and to promote discipline, unity and patriotism, NOA Director General, Dr Garba Abari represented by the Imo State Director of the agency, Mr Vitus Ekeocha, urged the people of the South South geo-political zone of the country to embrace the National Orientation Agency’s platform of peace building in all their communities to bring about the much expected economic transformation of the region. Doctor Abari who stated the above in Asaba, said post election violence and other security challenges will reduce to the barest minimum…
Being text of lecture delivered by His Excellency Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, CON, at the 1st Governor Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan Annual Public Lecture under the auspices of Prof BIC Ijeomah Centre for Public Policy & Research at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) on Tuesday 9th April 2019. PROTOCOLS 1. I want to begin my opening remarks by appreciating the UNN management for instituting a chair in the faculty of social sciences in my name. I am humbled by this kind gesture and I am pleasantly surprised by it. Some years ago while as…
DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, Chairman of the Delta State Oil Producing Area Developmental Commission (DESOPADEC), Chief Williams Makinde, former Acting Governor of Delta State, Prince Sam Obi and former Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Stella Omu have been unveiled to be among dignitaries to attend the first Maris Annual Lecture which has as topic, MANAGING POST-ELECTION CHALLENGES: Nigeria As Case Study will be discussed. According to a press statement issued on Monday (08/04/19) in Asaba, Delta State, former top management staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) who is the Oshimili Atata of Ahaba, Chief…
By Bulou Kosin Acting Governor of Delta State, Deacon Kingsley Burutu Otuaro, indicated that Niger Delta people were on same page with President Mohammadu Buhari as they both said the actualisation of the Nigerian Maritime University (NMU), Okerenkoko fulfilled a dream and vision. They spoke as parties at the receiving and giving ends of the dream–the Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko, which held its first matriculation ceremony on Saturday, at the Kurutie campus of the institution in Warri South-West local government area, Delta State. Otuaro said “actualisation of NMU, Okerenkoko was collective aspiration of Ijaw and Niger Delta people”. But Buhari,…
The maiden matriculation ceremony of the Nigeria Maritime University was held on Saturday, April 6, 2019, at the institution’s start-off campus at Kurutie, Warrior South-West Local Government Area of Delta State. Speaking at the event, Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, thanked God that the Nigeria Maritime university is now a reality, saying that the school is one of the total and unflinching demonstrations of President Muhammadu Buhari to the development and progress of the Niger Delta. Vice President Osinbajo, who was represented at the event by his Senior Special Assistant on Economic Matters, Dr Iyamu Edobor, said that very soon the…
BY SAM DUVWODE The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Mohammadu Buhari, has said that one of the core vision of his administration is to re-write the story of the neglected Niger Delta region, adding that the establisment of the Nigeria Maritime University (NMU), Okerenkoko Delta State, is one of the strongest demostration and commitment of his administration to the development and progress of the Niger Delta. The Acting Governor of Delta State, Barr. Kingsley Otuaro also noted that, the establishment of the Nigeria Maritime University is a symbol of the collective aspiration of every person in Gbaramatu…
By Austin Emaduku The law in as much as it relates to the dispensation of justice, ought to be clear as not to confuse. Justice, when delivered by the law, should direct and enlighten and not confuse. Justice by its very nature is like a bright lamp on a hilltop, visible to all. The law is supposed to be the pathway to justice. The court, regarded as the last hope of the aggrieved and the common man, is the vehicle through which the law dispenses justice. Like everything else in contemporary Nigeria, it is increasingly becoming impossible to know what…
By Austin Emaduku I do not understand Nigerian politics. I cannot understand why the opposition, even though, quite aware of it’s minority status will want to snatch the leadership of the National Assembly from the majority party. And we are not even talking of a slim majority here! Is it so that it can frustrate the policies of the national government that also holds the majority in the legislature or what? In Democracies across the world, a synergy is required between the Executive and the legislature for governance to succeed. That is why every party worldwide seeks to control both…