The Immediate past executive Chairman of Isoko North Local Government Council, Deacon Christian Iteire has thanked the people of Isoko North local government for their warm solidarity and passionate call for him to return and serve them saying their voice is loud and clear enough and he will yield to their call to consolidate on his first term achievements. It would be recalled that the people of Isoko North had on various occasions called on him to seek re-election, describing him as a man that the fear of God moderates his actions by subjecting himself to public service without blemishes.…
Author: Spade Nigeria
President Tinubu has disclosed that he won’t host any birthday event and does not want any of his associates and numerous well-wishers across the country to organise any celebratory event on his behalf or in his name because of the challenges Nigeria is currently battling . The President wants his friends and associates who may wish to place goodwill advertorials for his birthday to kindly donate the money to charity organisations of their choice in his name. The president will use the opportunity of his birthday to reflect and re-dedicate himself to the task of building a more stable, more…
By Fred Edoreh Seventeen soldiers of the Military Joint Task Force gruesomely murdered in a remote village in the creeks of the Niger Delta, not in war but on a peace mission: How could that have happened! Across Nigeria, outrage followed disbelief. The first impression was that the dastardly act was committed by the people of Okuama community in Ughelli South, following a protracted boundary dispute between them and Okoloba community in Bomadi LGA, on one hand, and what may have seemed to them like bias officiating with undue use of force by the JTF personnel, on the other hand.…
Indications have emerged that President Bola Tinubu may announce the new minimum wage on May 1 in commemoration of the International Labour Day and backdate its implementation to April. Saturday PUNCH gathered that the National Minimum Wage Committee was working to ensure that all negotiations regarding the new rate were finalised before then with the expectation that the President would announce the new minimum wage in his Workers’ Day address. A member of the committee, who spoke to Saturday PUNCH on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the issue, said, “By next week, the minimum wage committee…
Advocate Lecture Series Board of Council (ALSBC) has announced a renowned Canadian-based professor of Family Medicine, Prof. Rukevwe (Ruky) Ugwumba as a Guest Discussant at Advocate Newspaper Publication’s Inaugural Lecture Series, themed “Youth Empowerment and Leadership Evolution: Rethinking Nigeria’s Leadership Recruitment Process.” ALSBC, in a press statement on Saturday signed by its Secretary General, Mr. Shedrack Onitsha, Anipr, disclosed that the choice of the family doctor, Prof. Rukevwe Ugwumba, was as a result of her outstanding impacts globally for over two decades. The statement Read: “Advocate Lecture Series Board of Council (ALSBC) is pleased to announce the inaugural lecture…
Traditional Rulers in Delta State have pledged to assist security agencies to fish out those involved in the killing of 17 Officers and Men of the Nigerian Army at Okuama community in Delta State. Rising from a meeting of the Delta State Council of Traditional Rulers in Asaba the Monarchs condemned in the strongest terms , what they called unprovoked and barbaric attack by the Okuama Community which led to the death of the officers. In a 5-point communique issued at the end of the meeting, the Council Chairman and Orodje of Okpe, Major-General Felix Mujakpuero ( Rtd) ,…
A Social Critic in the oil rich Niger Delta Region Zik Gbemre has blasted Rtd General Tajudeen Olanrewaju over his comment linking the killing of Soldiers in Okuama Community, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State to oil bunkering and implored him to just shut up if he had nothing good to say about the Region. According to the Social Critic, the ex-General must be hallucinating, describing his comment as diversionary, childish and bias and made it clear that Okuama Community has no oil and gas assets. In a recent statement, Major-General Tajudeen Olanrewaju (retired) had come under fire…
By Pius Mordi The gruesome and mindless killing of 17 servicemen at Okuama has occasioned the reenactment of the traumatic events of some years ago in Zaki Biam and Odi when the sins of a few sons of lucifer were visited on many innocent people. A similar thing was enacted in Gaza when some hotheads among Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis and abducted hundreds. The response by Israel has divided opinions within the international community. Seven months after Hamas struck, the IDF is still executing its agenda to decimate the militant group. In the process, over 31,000 civilians in Gaza are…
A Yoruba Group, O’Odua Integrity Network (OIN) has rained heavy knocks on Rtd. Major General Tajudeen Olanrewaju over his statement linking private security surveillance contractors to the killing of 16 soldiers in Okuama community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State The OIN accused him of fronting for oil Barons in the country, wondering why a 78-year made himself available for dirty jobs. The Group in a Statement Signed by Chief Adewale Adeosun (President) and Mr Ige Kilanko ( Secretary), said that brutal killing of officers and soldiers of the 181 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Bomadi, Delta State, elicited…
The Delta Online Publishers Forum (DOPF) extends its heartfelt condolences to the Nigerian Army and Okuama Community, following the gruesome and devastating loss of lives in recent tragic and unfortunate incidents. The heinous killing of 17 military personnel and the subsequent collateral damages which has consumed numerous civilians in a frenzy of reprisal attacks, deeply saddens and diminishes us all as humans. As we seek swift justice for the gallant fallen heroes, we equally emphasize the importance of upholding rules of engagement and established judicial procedures, especially as defined in Democratic systems. With Nigeria not in a state of war…