EDO PRIMARY: APC ASPIRANT URGES MEMBERS TO SHUN POLITICS OF MONETIZATION
BY EBEN ENASCO KINGSLEY, BENIN CITY
As the race for the sole-candidacy of All Progressive Congress, APC,
reach its horizon to decides who becomes the party flag bearer ahea
the 2016 governorship election in Edo State, one of the front line
aspirant, Professor Oserhiemen Osunbor, has urged the people of the state to consider the quality of prospective candidates ...
JOB CREATION: Okowa Says Non-Oil Sector Is The Solution
By Our Correspondent
DELTA State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa has called on the Federal Government to pay attention to Nigeria’s non-oil sector to generate employment for the country's teeming jobless youths.
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State.
Governor Okowa made the call on Monday in Asaba, when he received staff and students of Senior Staff Course 38, ...
More PDP Heavyweights Desert Wike, back Peterside – APC …Wike threatens not to go down alone
…as Nwankwo, Soberekon, Bekinbo Dagogo-Jack, Tobin-West formally collapse Rivers PDP
By Nwaorgu Faustinus
The camp of embattled Care-Taker Governor, Chief Nyesome Wike, has become further depleted with the exit of more heavyweights of the Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of which he is the Leader.
ETCHE ONE, DR DAKUKU PETERSIDE ADDRESSING THE CROWD ...
Destruction of Oil Pipelines, Self-Inflicted Injury – Boroh
By our Correspondent
THE Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brigadier General Paul Boroh (Rtd) has told Stakeholders, Traditional rulers and leaders in the Niger Delta that destruction of oil facilities in the Region is self-inflicted injury.
Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator, ...
Oil Price Crash: Itihwe Solicits Cooperation Of HOSTCOM
By Our Correspondent
WORRIED by the unabated oil price crash, Chief Amos Itihwe, DESOPADEC Commissioner representing Ughelli South, Udu, Uvwie and Urhobos of Warri South, at the weekend solicited for the cooperation of members of HOSTCOM in Delta Central.
Chief Amos Itihwe chief
Speaking while donating wireless amplified microphones, computer and printer to HOSTCOM, Delta Central for ...
Scrapping Maritime University Will Jeopardize Buhari’s Commitment to Niger Delta –Aginighan
By Our Correspondent
FORMER Acting Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Pastor Power Aginighan has said that the proposed scrapping of the Nigerian Maritime University by the Federal Government will jeopardize President Mohammadu Buhari’s Commitment to addressing the challenges of the Niger Delta region.
Pastor Power Aginighan, former Acting Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission ...
Monarch Decry Fall in Oil Prices, Pipeline Vandalism, Oil Theft
…Calls For Diversification of Nation’s Economy
By Our Correspondent
THE Paramount ruler of Seimbiri kingdom and former national Chairman, ATROMPCON, His Royal Majesty, Pere Charles Ayemi-Botu (JP), OFR, has expressed worry over the dwindling price of crude oil in global market, theft of oil and vandalism of oil installations in the Niger Delta region, saying the only ...
NULGE excos called to actualize workers welfare plan
Okpalaume Mary, Sapele
The chairman of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Sapele Chapter, Comrade Ejiro Odebala has called on the members of his cabinet to work in the interest of the workers whom they represent reminding them that their election and inauguration into the various offices is a call to serve the union ...
RE: NDDC, REVERSE SEMINITARI’S APPOINTMENT, PMB ADVISED.
Communique Reached by the Niger Delta People's Movement at the End of Its Meeting Held On Friday, 22nd January 2016
RE: NDDC, REVERSE SEMINITARI'S APPOINTMENT, PMB ADVISED.
We have observed, over time, attempts by various supposed pro-Niger Delta groups to get President Muhammadu Buhari reverse his recent appointment of Mrs Simintari's as the Acting Managing Director of ...
35 Youth to Benefit From Ugborhen Community Skills Acquisition Programme
By Our Correspondent
The President of oil-rich Ugborhen Community in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, Chief Anthony Ayovogware Amitaye has flagged off a Skill Acquisition Training Programme for 35 youths of the community in different disciplines.
In his opening speech at the ceremony,Chief Amitaye, thanked Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for creating an enabling environment between the ...
Delta Speaker, ALGON Chairman dismiss story on remittance of N325million
By Fidel Njamanze
The Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Monday Igbuya has stressed the need for media practitioners to be thorough and be armed with accurate facts and figures in their investigative journalism.
Rt. Hon Monday Igbuya
He also asked them to always project the image of the State in its
true perspective to counter ...
OGBEMUDIA DUMPS PDP FOR UNKNOWN PARTY
By Eben Enasco Kingsley, Benin City
Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia the former Bendel State two term governor has dumped PDP for an unknown party following his submitted resignation letter yesterday to withdraw his membership.
Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia
The Chieftain and a member of the party’s Board of Trustees, BoT,
disclosed that he made his decision to quit the party ...
The litigious fight against corruption in Delta State: Comrade Kpokpogri, ICPC and the rest of us
By Ephraim Okwuosa
Fighting corruption in a nation like Nigeria is certainly a complex
phenomenon but it remains a very necessary ingredient that would help strengthen democracy because a victory over financial sleaze in
governance will ensure that the collective wealth of citizens are
properly utilized for common good. However, when emotions and
falsehoods are introduced to misguide interpretations of ...
Market Square opens in Yenagoa
By philip eke, yenagoa
A new shopping experience capable of giving big supermarkets operating in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, a run for their money, has opened for business.
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State.
Named Marketsquare, the shopping outfit designed like Shoprite, wasinaugurated on Wednesday by the state Governor and Governor-elect, Mr. Seriake Dickson.
As the name implies, Marketsquare, ...
BE GOOD AMBASSADORS, UNIBEN VC CHARGES MATRICULANTS
BY EBEN ENASCO KINGSLEY, BENI CITY
The Vice Chancellor University of Benin, Prof. Faraday O Orumwense, has charged matriculants of the university to be good ambassadors of its Alma maters.
Prof. Faraday O Orumwense.
He gave the charge on the occasion of its 2015/16 matriculation
ceremony held today at the Akin Deko Main Auditorium Ugbowo Campus Benin City.
While ...