SAPELE, OKPE COMMUNITY CHAIRMAN DONATES WHEEL CHAIRS TO PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED

Posted by admin on Wednesday, 24 February 2016 in News 1359 Reads

By Our Correspondent Determined to create a sense of belongings among those with disabilities, the Chairman of Sapele – Okpe Community, Hon. Moses Ogodo has in his usual magnanimity, donated wheel chairs to the physically challenged persons while empowering 20 “less privileged widows” each with N5,000.00 (Five Thousand naira) cash monthly, including the blind persons which he has already placed on ...

Okowa Pledges Support To Obi Akaeze I … Lauds Successful Emergence Of Obi Of Ubulu-Uku Kingdom

Posted by admin on Wednesday, 24 February 2016 in News 1259 Reads

By Our Correspondent DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has lauded the successful emergence of HRM Agbogidi Chukwuka Noah Akaeze I as the Obi of Ubulu-Uku Kingdom in Aniocha North Local Government Area of the state. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and the new King of Obulu-Uku Kingdom, His Majesty, Agbogidi Chukwuka Noah Akaeze. Speaking when the monarch ...

EMERHOR COMMENDS TINUBU’S POLITICAL SAGACITY, SAYS “SUN NEWSPAPER MAN OF THE YEAR AWARD” WELL DESERVED

Posted by admin on Wednesday, 24 February 2016 in News 911 Reads

By Our Correspondent Leader of Delta State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and 2015 governorship candidate, Olorogun Otega Emerhor has described the National Leader of APC, His Excellency, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed TINUBU as one of the greatest 21st century democrats who helped in no small measure to stabilize constitutional democracy in Nigeria. Asiwaju Bola ...

Don’t Cancel 260M Dollar Contracts For ExxonMobil’s Usan Field, Group Tells Kachikwu

Posted by admin on Wednesday, 24 February 2016 in Energy Today 1140 Reads

By Our Correspondent THE Niger Delta Indigenous Movement For Radical Change (NDIMRC) has urged the Federal Government to ignore the call by some Stakeholders in the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry to cancel the 260M Dollar Contracts for the ExxonMobil's Usan Field. Some Stakeholders, under the aegis of Nigerian Content Front (NCF), had requested the Minister of ...

CEPEJ condemns attack on Shell’s Forcados Terminal by militants.

Posted by admin on Tuesday, 23 February 2016 in Energy Today 1303 Reads

By Our Correspondent A Niger Delta Non-Government Organization, Center for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), has condemned in strong terms the attack on Forcados Terminal, a facility of Shell Petroleum Development Company by a shadowy militant group, resulting in the spilling of about 35,000 barrels of crude. The NGO described the dastard act as uncalled for given ...

FG urged to strengthen ICPC to tackle corruption in civil service

Posted by admin on Monday, 22 February 2016 in News 939 Reads

By Our Correspondent A Niger Delta based Non-Governmental Organization, Center for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), has joined other Nigerians and groups to condemn in strong term the discovery of projects allegedly sneaked into the Federal Government’s 2016 Appropriation Bill by unscrupulous civil servants. President Mohammadu Buhari To this end, the Center has advised the government to ...

Okowa Extends Olive Branch to Political Opponents … Dedicates Victory to God

Posted by admin on Sunday, 21 February 2016 in News 918 Reads

By Francis sadhere The Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa yesterday held out the olive branch to his political opponents, calling on them to join hands with him to move the state forward. Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State. The governor stated this during the interdenominational Thanksgiving Victory Service held at Word of Life Bible Church, Warri, ...

SPDC intensifies oil recovery of Forcados spill

Posted by admin on Sunday, 21 February 2016 in Energy Today 1135 Reads

By Our Correspondent The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) at the weekend intensified recovery of oil from the February 14, 2016 spill at the Forcados Terminal export pipeline. Supported by industry group Clean Nigeria Associates (CNA) and other oil companies, SPDC has deployed specialised equipment to contain the spill. SPDC has also mobilised clean-up teams ...

NSCDC DARES BUNKERS, AS ADULTERATED NNPC CRUDE OIL TANKERS,Drums Recovered in Edo

Posted by admin on Sunday, 21 February 2016 in News 1384 Reads

By Eben Enasco Kingsley, Benin City The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, seems to be winning the war against pipelines vandalism, crude oil theft and illegal bunkers across board as no fewer than two NNPC inscribed tankers , drums of adulterated crude oil and several materials were recovered recently along Benin Auchi express Road during one of its ...

KLEPTOCRACY IN NIGERIA: The Real Politics of Corruption

Posted by admin on Sunday, 21 February 2016 in News 1011 Reads

By Alex Osondu Atawa-Akpodiete* Periodically, some interesting words get into our lexicon and we start wondering about its entomology. Kleptocracy is one of such words. Kleptocracy is simply government of thieves or essentially a nation being ruled by thieves. Officially, it is a derivative “from Greek: κλέπτης - kleptēs, 'thief' … and “is a term applied ...

GROUP ALLEGES SCARCITY OF JAMB REG. CARD NATIONWIDE

Posted by admin on Sunday, 21 February 2016 in News 959 Reads

By Eben Enasco Kingsley, Benin City A group, under the Aggies of Concerned and Affected Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, UTME, 2016, Candidates in Edo State, has staged a protest against the body over what they alleged as purported scarcity of online registration cards Nation wide. The peaceful protest which was held in the state capital ...

H/COURT SACKS OTARU FROM PALACE, ORDERED TO VACATE WITHIN 31-DAY

Posted by admin on Sunday, 21 February 2016 in News 1025 Reads

By Eben Enasco Kingsley, Benin City A Benin High Court has ordered Alhaji Aliru Momoh Ikelebe III,the Otaru of Auchi to vacate the premises he currently occupies as his palace in the last two decades in 31 days, as he is an illegal occupant. Alhaji Aliru Momoh Ikelebe III,theOtaru of Auchi. The property according to the court, which also ordered ...

Uvwie Councilors Denied Access to Council Secretariat by Hoodlums

Posted by admin on Sunday, 21 February 2016 in News 1436 Reads

By Our Correspondent The last may not have been heard about the purported leadership legislative change in Uvwie Local Government Council which occurred Wednesday February 17, as the 10 Councilors loyal to the ousted Uvwie Council Chairman, Hon. Henry Baro Minabonware have raised alarm, saying they were denied access to the legislative building by hoodlums who ...

Former PDP Member, Orido, Followers, Defects to APC

Posted by admin on Sunday, 21 February 2016 in News 1521 Reads

…As Ogbuagu laments Disunity in Delta APC ...Inaugurates Delta State Coalition for Buhari By Francis Sadhere The wind of change blowing round the country is taking its toll on the Peoples Democratic Party as one of its staunched members, Chief John Miller Omagbemi Orido, together with his followers, yesterday, defected to the ruling All Progressives Party, (APC). Chief Orido ...

MAKINDE VOWS TO GO TOUGH WITH CORRUPT DESOPADEC STAFF

Posted by admin on Saturday, 20 February 2016 in News 1344 Reads

By Francis Sadhere/Stella Peredu The Managing Director of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Olorogun Williams Makinde has threatened to sack any staff who uses his name to perpetuate corrupt practices in the commission. The DESOPADEC Managing Director stated this when he played host to DESOPADEC Indigenous Contractors Forum who paid him a courtesy ...

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