ALL HAIL NIGERIA NIGERIA AT 58: THE BLACK RACE AND AFRICA’S FLAGSHIP The super potential, capabilities of both human and natural resources which are yet to be tapped, brings some magic wand theorists and dooms day commentators to postulate for Nigeria only perdition, but God forbid. Nigeria at 58 has had her unfortunate and bitter nationalexperiences that is why both some very well bred, trained superior elites, and some baseless common people are in the same league, in their belief that whoever emerges the Head of State or President does not have what it takes to run government no matter…
Author: Spade Nigeria
By Abel Johngold Youths in the Niger Delta region have been commended for the relative peace in the creeks at the moment. The commendation was made by the Chief Press Secretary ( CPS) to Delta State Governor, Comrade Charlse Ehiedu Aniagwu, during an interactive session with the leadership of the Online Media Practitioners Association of Nigeria (OMPAN) Delta State Chapter on Monday, 22 October, 2018, when the group paid him a courtesy call. Comrade Aniagwu noted that the restored stability in the creeks was one of the reasons for steady revenue inflow to Government coffers. While imploring the Niger Delta…
Veteran actors, Richard Mofe-Damijo and Joke Silva have emerged winners at the 14th edition of the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) in Kigali, Rwanda. While RMD emerged the overall Best Actor in a Leading Role, for his role in Cross Roads, Silva, bagged the Best Actress in a Supporting Role award for her character in Potato Potahto. Below are some of the winners from Nigeria Best actor in Supporting Role: Gideon Okeke- Cross Roads (Nigeria) Best Actress in Supporting Role: Joke Silva- Potato Potahto (Nigeria) Best Actor in a leading Role: Richard Mofe-Damijo- Cross Roads Best Actress in a Leading…
…Patoranking, Others To Thrill Fan All is now set for the 2018 AITEO Football Finals between Rangers of Enugu and Kano Pillars of Kano on Wednesday (24/10/2018) inside the Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba. A statement signed in Asaba today (22/10/2018) by the Vice Chairman of the Local Organising Committee for the competition, Ogbueshi Patrick Ukah, disclosed that the match will kick off by 4.30pm. Ogbueshi Ukah, who is also the Delta State Commissioner for Information, stated that there will be a curtain raiser between Comprehensive Secondary School, Ogwashi Uku, and West End Mixed Secondary School, Asaba by 2.30pm and entertainment/musical…
By FIDELIS EGUGBO According to Wikipedia, “a budget is the sum of money allocated for a particular purpose and the summary of intended expenditures along with proposals for how to meet them. It may include a budget surplus, providing money for use at a future time, or a deficit in which expenses exceed income.” In Nigeria, we are used to hearing people say, “you know there is nothing we can do until the budget is approved.” This is majorly as a result of the fact that it was impossible for the national or budgets of different states of the country…
Due to the prevailing economic hardship in the Warri axis of the state, occasioned by the withdrawal of air traffic services at the Osubi airport since September 3, 2018, the Delta State House of Assembly during Thursday, October 18, 2018 plenary, has called on the State Governor to intervene in the situation. The House adopted a motion calling on Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to interface with the Federal Ministry of Transport to prevail on the National Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) to restore air traffic services at the Osubi airport. The motion was moved under motion on notice by the member representing…
Okowa Urges Political Appointees To Give Their Best To The People … Swears-In New Commissioners, Others DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has charged political appointees to always give their best in rendering services to Deltans. The governor gave the charge today {19/10/18) in Asaba at the swearing-in ceremony of two new members of the State Executive Council: Hon. Freeman O. Fregene and Mr. Julius Takeme, three members of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission – DESOPADEC: Hon. Ejaife Odebala, Hon. Mofe Pira, Hon. Talib Tebite and Dr. Samuel Ochonogor Ossai as Executive Director, and the inauguration of…
Okowa Presents N367, 09 Billion Budget Proposal For 2019 Fiscal Year DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa today (17/10/18), presented a budget proposal of N367, 095,083,451 to the State House of Assembly for the 2019 fiscal year. According to the governor, capital expenditure in the projected budget will gulp the sum of N209, 999,054,198 which is 57.21 while the sum of N157, 096,029,253 or 42.79 per cent of the budget would be spent on recurrent expenditure. It would be recalled that the year 2018 had as its total budget size, N308,888,558,898 (three hundred and eight billion,…
…APPROVES WORK ON FIVE ROADS …APPROVES APPOINTMENT OF THREE TRADITIONAL RULERS The faces of some pensioners in Delta State will soon be filled with smiles as the state government has approved an increase in the pension payable to them. Those to benefit, according to the State Commissioner for Information, Ogbueshi Patrick Ukah, are pensioners that retired before May 2000 who have gotten a 33% increase in the rates of pension they receive. Ukah who spoke after the State Executive Council meeting held in Asaba and presided over by the State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, disclosed that the increase was…
The immediate past governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has disclosed that over 30 per cent of farmlands in the Niger Delta region has been lost to this year’s ravaging floods. Uduaghan, a senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress for Delta South Senatorial District in 2019 general elections, noted that the development poses great concern for the nation’s food sufficiency drive. In a statement to commemorate the 2018 World Food Day on Tuesday, the former governor lamented that this year’s floodings had led to premature harvesting and destruction of farmlands including fish ponds in the country particularly in…