Archives for November 27th, 2014

New IPMAN Boss, Emoefe, pledges open–door tenure

Posted by admin on Thursday, 27 November 2014 in News 2148 Reads

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

Posted by admin on Thursday, 27 November 2014 in News 1586 Reads

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

Posted by admin on Thursday, 27 November 2014 in News 1797 Reads

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

Posted by admin on Thursday, 27 November 2014 in News 1514 Reads

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

Posted by admin on Thursday, 27 November 2014 in Opinion 1631 Reads

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?)

Posted by admin on Thursday, 27 November 2014 in Opinion 2793 Reads

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

Posted by admin on Thursday, 27 November 2014 in Crime 1692 Reads

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

Posted by admin on Thursday, 27 November 2014 in News 1998 Reads

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 ...

2015: Delta Strategic Team, Committed To Jonathan’s Victory, Says Datuowei

Posted by admin on Thursday, 27 November 2014 in Politics 1236 Reads

By Our Correspondent The State Coordinator, Delta Strategic Team for Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) 2015, Mr. Felix Datuowei, says the group would stop at nothing in ensuring the victory of President Jonathan in 2015 presidential election through sensitization and mobilization of the electorates in the state. Mr. Datuowei stated this during an inaugural meeting with coordinators of ...

Kidnapped DELSU Lecturer Regains Freedom After 45 Days In Captivity

Posted by admin on Thursday, 27 November 2014 in Crime 1246 Reads

By Francis Sadhere Kidnapped Delta State University lecturer, Dr. Nyerohovwo Tonukari has been released in the early hours of yesterday after 45 torturous days in the hands of his kidnappers. His released came barely 24 hours after ASUU, DELSU chapter, staged a peaceful protest at the Government House, Asaba and the office of the Delta State Police ...