Archives for November, 2014
Uduaghan’s Wife Lauds Arubayi’s Achievements in Delsu
By Francis Sadhere
Wife of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, Deaconess (Mrs.) Roli Uduaghan has lauded the achievements of the outgoing Vice chancellor of Delta State University, Abraka, Professor Eric Arubayi.
She stated this yesterday at Our Savior's Chapel, Delsu, Abraka while speaking to journalists during the Valedictory Thanksgiving Service in honour of Prof. Eric Arubayi for a successful ...
Delta State Govt, others commend CNL for Education development
By Tejiri Ebikeme
The Delta State Government has commended the efforts of the NNPC/Chevron Joint Venture in supporting educational development in the State through various programs including the sponsorship of the Awokoya Memorial Chemistry competition.
GUESTS AND THE WINNERS CUT A CAKE TO MARK THE EVENT
The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Prof. Patrick Muobaghare made ...
Chevron, Agbami Partners Applauded for Child Safety Campaign in Warri
By Francis Sadhere
Star Deepwater Petroleum Limited (a Chevron company and operator of the Agbami field) and its partners in the Agbami field: Famfa Oil Limited, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Statoil Nigeria Limited, and Petroleo Brasileiro Nigeria Limited (Petrobras) have been commended for their commitment to safety of children through the Arrive Alive child road ...
Nigeria’s Petroleum Minister, Madueke, Elected OPEC President
The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been elected the first female president of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
Mrs. Diezani Madueke
Alison-Madueke was elected President of OPEC Thursday at the ongoing 166th General Meeting of the body in Vienna, Austria.
She replaces former President of OPEC, Libyan Vice Prime Minister for Corporations, ...
JONATHAN FLAGS OFF GREAT GREEN WALL INITIATIVE IN KEBBI STATE
By Our Correspondent
President Goodluck Jonathan has flagged off the Nigerian component of the Great Green Wall, GGW, progamme at Bachaka, Kebbi State.
President Goodluck Jonathan
The GGW is aimed at checking desertification in 11 northern states of Adamawa, Borno, Bauchi, Gombe, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Jigawa, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara.
Speaking on the occasion, Jonathan said that as ...
The Horrendous War against the Innocent and Law-abiding Citizens
By Jesse Ese
99.9% of those who have been caught red-handed in the act of criminality, terrorism, and the host of other dreaded activities always attribute the blame to government. They say that the government has refused to provide jobs, and social amenities that make life easy for mankind.
Some of them complaining of lack of employment ...
Epz:Etoromi Cautions Itsekiri, Ijaw Leaders Against Inflammatory Statements
By Tejiri Ebikeme
THE Seipakumor of Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, Lt. Col Satchie Etoromi (rtd.), yesterday, asked Ijaw and Itsekiri leaders to stop making provocative statements in breach of the agreement of both ethnic groups on the $16 billion Export Processing Zone, EPZ project.
Speaking to our correspondent in his office in ...
New IPMAN Boss, Emoefe, pledges open–door tenure
By Our Correspondent
The newly elected chairman of independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Benjamin Emoefe, has promised to operate an open door policy where no marketers would be oppressed; saying the dream of their founding fathers as articulated in the 1997 constitution would be protected.
Emoefe, who made this known during the swearing in of ...
Olejeme to Grace Non-Yoruba Speaking People Event in Lagos
By Njamanze Fidel
Delta State governorship aspirant, Dr. Ngozi Olejeme is expected to grace the Cultural Festival of Non-Yoruba Speaking People in Lagos on Sunday.
Dr. Ngozi Olejeme
A statement from the Office of the Director of Communications, Olejeme Campaign Organization in Asaba said Dr. Olejeme will be attending the Cultural Event as the Special Guest of ...
Gov Amaechi Abolishes Discriminatory School Fees for Non-Indigenes …He is a hero, a deliverer and a patriotic leader – NIPF
By Our Correspondent
It was celebration galore last Monday among non-indigenes in Rivers State when the State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, announced to students and staff of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) that henceforth it would be abominable to allow the injustice in State-owned schools where non-indigenes are made to ...
Adoption of Peterside: Rivers APC Says Primary Will Still Hold
By Our Correspondent
The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said that despite the adoption of Amaopusenbo Dakuku Adolphus Peterside by the party, the party’s primaries will still hold as planned.
GOV AMAECHI STATE ADDRESS
It says its attention has been drawn to various news reports especially by the electronic media concerning ...
UDUAGHAN’S WEIRD LEGACIES AND OKOBIA ROAD
By Bobson Gbinije
“Our world is a neighborhood.
We are tied together in the single
Garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly”
(Martin Luther king Jr)
The arrogant segregationists and the Caucasoid depots thrived in their Golgotha savagery because their victims were sandwiched in the tragedy of despondency, non-violent complacency ...
2015 ELECTIONS AND NATIONAL INTEREST (WILL NIGERIA SURVIVE?)
By Bobson Gbinije
“If liberty and equality, as is taught by some,
are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained
when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost”.
ARISTOLE (384-322 B.C) Politics
When the groundswell of pusillanimous tergiversation and the recherché of culpable taciturnity becomes the mantra in any ...
DELTA NLC SEEKS GOVT’S URGENT INTERVENTION ON KIDNAPPED LECTURERS
By Our Corresponent
Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Delta State Council, Comrade Williams Akporeha has called on the Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan to urgently deploy relevant security agencies to secure the immediate release of some of the Delta State University lecturers kidnapped recently in the state.
Comrade Akporeha made this call at ...
EPZ: Ijaws Are Not Calling for War, Says Gbedekama
By Our Correspondent
Spokesman, Gbaramatu EPZ Major Stakeholders Community, Godspower Gbedekama has debunked media reports by the Itsekiri ethnic nationality alleging that the Ijaws were calling for war due to the botched ground breaking ceremony of the multi-billion dollar gas city project by President Goodluck Jonathan.
DR EMMANUEL EWETA UDUAGHAN
Speaking with journalists in Warri, Gbedekama said Ijaws ...