Archives for March 13th, 2015

BENIN TRADITIONAL COUNCIL ASKED TO LIVE OBA OUT OF POLITICAL MATTERS

Posted by admin on Friday, 13 March 2015 in News 1345 Reads

BY: Eben Enasco Kingsley, Benin The Benin Traditional Council has resolved that hence forth, the Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba of Benin be left out of political matters, and has not mandated any of his chiefs to speak or make any political comments on his behalf especially as to the choric of any ...

POWER: DESPOTS BEWARE!!!

Posted by admin on Friday, 13 March 2015 in Opinion 1276 Reads

BY BOBSON GBINIJE “We must define democracy as that form of government and of society which is inspired above every other, with the feeling and consciousness of the dignity of man” Thomas Mann (1875-1955) Narcissistic psychopaths and Hitleric nihilists have an insatiable and venomously gluttonous appetite for power. Power is authority, prerogative, jurisdiction, force and domination. When ...

Delta: PDP, Accord Party Disagree Over Existing Alliance

Posted by admin on Friday, 13 March 2015 in News 1102 Reads

By Omos Oyinbode, Asaba Barely one week after the Delta State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Edwin Uzor, denied any alliance between the PDP and Accord Party in the state, the State Chairman of Accord, Pastor David Ashikodi, said his party would remain faithful to the terms of alliance with the PDP through ...

2015 Elections: Agbon Monarch Preaches Peace …As Political Parties, Stakeholders sign Peace Pact for Violence Free Polls

Posted by admin on Friday, 13 March 2015 in News 1504 Reads

Francis Sadhere As the 2015 general election draws closer, the traditional ruler of Agbon Kingdom, HRH Ogurimerime, the Ukori 1 of Agbon kingdom, Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, recently tasked his subjects on the need for a peaceful election in Nigeria, noting that elections should not be a do or die affair. HRM ...

I Did Not Sponsor Okowa – Tompolo

Posted by admin on Friday, 13 March 2015 in News 1611 Reads

Francis Sadhere Ex-Niger Delta militant, Chief Government Epkemupkolo (alias Tomplolo) has denied ever sponsoring the People's Democratic Party candidate, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, stressing that he is only supporting Okowa to achieve his dream of becoming the governor of the state. Chief Government Ekpemukpolo (alias Tompolo) at the Amaniekumor Festival Chief Ekpemukpolo stated this yesterday at Oporoza, Warri ...

Delta offsets three months arrears of 1200 Environmental Marshals

Posted by admin on Friday, 13 March 2015 in News 1144 Reads

BY OMOS OYINBODE, ASABA Delta State Government has paid three months salary arrears to 1200 newly recruited Environmental Marshals in 10 pilot towns in the state. Speaking at Ughelli and Warri, the Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Frank Omare, allayed the fears of the marshals who were of the view that the recruitment was political. Represented by Assistant Director ...

Igbo President: Is It After Armageddon

Posted by admin on Friday, 13 March 2015 in News 1015 Reads

By Bobson Gbinige “Tis all men’s office to speak patience To those who wring under the load of sorrow, But no man’s virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself.” – SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) Dialectical logicians and theosophical purists are cantankerously at variance on many subject matters, but in a form of antinomy, they tend to agree ...