NDDC: Semenitari disowns fraudulent mail, bank A/C
By Nwaorgu Faustinus
The Ag. Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, said her attention has been drawn to a fictitious electronic mail currently in circulation purporting to have its origin from her.
Mrs. Ibim Semenitari
A statement signed by Bekee Anyalewechi SA on (Media) to the Ag. MD/CEO of NDDC explained that ‘To ...
Benin residents lauds Oshiomhole on projects
By Eben Enasco Kingsley, Benin City
Residents of Benin City have commended Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State for ensuring that development projects in the state are not abandoned in spite of dwindling revenues to states and the federal government, saying they will give their full support to whoever the Governor brings as his successor, as ...
BEDC Embarks on Mass Disconnection of unpaid subscribers
By Eben Enasco Kingsley, Benin City
The Benin Electricity distribution company (BEDC) has disclosed that it will embark on mass disconnection of subscribers under its network who are indebted to the company and yet to remit such payment.
Mr. Tayo Adekunle, BEDC head of corporate affairs in statement signed by the management and made available to our ...
NDA: Edo Deputy Speaker proffers dialogue As Solution
...As Ayiri Blame regional leaders for Niger Delta Underdevelopment
By Eben Enasco Kingsley, Benin City
Following the emergence of Niger-Delta Avengers,NDA, in the oil rich Niger delta region of Nigeria, the deputy speaker of Edo state house of assembly, Hon. Justin Okonoboh has called on the federal government to engage the group in dialogue to end incessant ...
VENTURE INTO POLITICS,PASTOR IZE- IYAMU URGES RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS
By Eben Enasco Kingsley, Benin City
Front line gubernatorial aspirant of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has admonished God fearing people to go into politics in order to sanitize politics and make it truly serve the interest of the public.
Speaking Thursday in Lagos at an interactive media briefing with news men Pastor Osagie ...
Don Pedro Obaseki withdraws from the race, labels APC unserious
By Eben Enasco Kingsley, Benin City
An All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant in Edo State, Don Pedro Obaseki, has announced his withdrawal from party’s primary election slated for June 18, 2016 , saying the outcome of the exercise was already predetermined to favour a particular aspirant.
He said he, on Thursday, he stumbled on a document that showed that apart ...
HOW COOKING AS TEENAGER INSPIRED ME TO VENTURE INTO HOSPITALITY BUSINESS– EGHOBAMIEN
Edward Edosa Eghobamien was born a natural gifted cook. He has lived and dwell in this life style for ages. He revealed to EBEN ENASCO KINGSLEY in this interview how helping his mother at the age of 7 to cook led him to set up an Academy of Hospitality Management, Catering Services and his eventual ...
EDO 2016: ODUBU,AIRHIAVBERE,OGIEMWONYI DECRIES FRAUDULENT BUYING OF PVC BY ASPIRANT
By Eben Enasco Kingsley, Benin City
As Primary Election of the All Progressive Congress hits a boiling point Ahead of the Edo State gubernatorial election to elect its party's Flagg bearer, some aspirants of the Party have decried fraudulent buying of permanent Voters Card from delegates to hoodwink them during the primary electioneering procedure of the party on June 18,2016.
Lately,the ...
PETTY STEALING RISES IN UKWUANI, AS NIGERIA’S ECONOMY WORSENS
By Our Correspondent
The wave of petty stealing of domestic and household items has increased in Obiaruku, the headquarters of the Ukwuani Local Government Area of Delta State, a trend that is not unconnected with the worsened state of Nigeria’s economy.
The cost of food items have continued to increase since the beginning of this year and this is telling on the socio-economic ...
ST. GOTATE SCHOOL OBIARUKU HOLDS 30TH SPORTS COMPETITION
By Our Correspondent
The 30th Inter-House Sports Athletic Competition of St. Gotate Schools, Obiaruku has successfully held with dignitaries from all works of life in attendance at Akashiede Girls College playground Obiaruku.
Delivering his address, the principal, Pastor Eledu Lucky remarked that learning in the school should not be restricted to the cognitive and affective domains but also include the psychomotor domains, adding that parents ...
Delta Speaker list priorities
By Our Correspondent
The Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Monday Igbuya, Wednesday made a critical appraisal of the Delta State House of Assembly, describing the Sixth Assembly as “the most stable and promising.”
Hon. Monday Igbuya, Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly.
Igbuya who spoke in Asaba on the occasion of the first anniversary celebration of the ...
Niger Delta Avengers: Tonfawei Urges FG To Dialogue With Niger Delta Community Monarchs, Elders, Leaders, Youths
By Our Correspondent
Prominent Ijaw leader, Apostle P. (Dr.) Clement Tonfawei has urged the Federal Government to dialogue with Niger Delta community monarchs, Elders, leaders and youths in region if it wants lasting peace to reign.
Militants
He said previous dialogue with militants and government officials in the past never yielded results because of the selfish interests of those ...
Ogbe-Ijoh/Aladja Crisis: Omare Denies Sponsoring NDA To Wipe Out Aladja
By Our Correspondent
FORMER Delta State Commissioner for Environment, Chief Frank Omare has urged the people of Ogbe-Ijoh and Aladja to embrace the committee set up by the State Government aimed at resolving the age long communal dispute in the two communities just as he denied sponsoring the Niger Delta Avengers to wipe out the Aladja people.
Chief ...
Activist Sues For Peace In Niger Delta Region
By Francis Sadhere
A Niger Delta Activist from Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State, Mrs Doris Esiemighan has sued for peace in the oil-rich Niger Delta Region where militants have been attacking oil installations.
Militants
In a press release made available to our Correspondent in Warri, Mrs Esiemighan said that the present situation in ...
VICE PRESIDENT OSINBAJO, GOVERNORS, SECURITY CHIEFS MEET OVER NIGER DELTA MILITANTS
... As Gov Okowa brief the press after the meeting
In view of the threat by Niger Delta Militants to bomb strategic buildings in Abuja, acting President, Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday met with governors of oil producing states and service chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa
Governors who attended the meeting were Nyesom Wike ...