Archives for April, 2015
SPDC, Onobrakpeya Foundation Train 60 Young Niger Delta Artists
By Francis Sadhere
As part of its efforts to bring succor to Niger Delta Youths, the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, in partnership with a Non- Governmental Foundation, Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundation, have trained 60 Delta youths from six states of the region in various art skills.
The graduating students in a group photograph with the three ...
Curator Challenges Nigerians to Preserve National Heritage, Monuments
BY Austin Oyibode
The Curator of the National Museum in Asaba, Delta State capital, Mrs. Vivian Okeke, has called on all Nigerians to protect the country’s national and local heritages so as to preserve them for generations yet unborn.
Mrs. Okeke made the call during the 50th celebration of the International Council for Monuments and ...
Ekpan Murder: Police Vows to Fish Out Killers of Olomu
By Francis Sadhere
The Nigerian Police has vowed to fish out the killers of the Financial Secretary of Ekpan community, Comrade Abraham Edesiri Olomu, who was murdered in cold blood on Monday 27 in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State.
Solomon Arase, Acting Inspector General of Police.
According to a credible police source who pleaded anonimity, ...
Factional Chairman of NLC Releases Activities for May Day Celebration
Tejiri Ebikeme
The newly inaugurated Delta state Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has announced activities to commemorate the 2015 May Day celebrations in Asaba, the Delta state capital.
The state Chairman of the NLC, Comrade Williams Akporeha disclosed this today shortly after a meeting with Congress Leadership.
According to Akporeha, all arrangement for a colourful ...
Niger/Delta Youths Protest Litigations against Okowa’s Guber Victory
Omos Oyinbode, Asaba
Not less than 2500 youths drawn from the South-South States under the aegis of South-South Youth Awareness Forum and Pages Group, Wednesday, protested against the various litigations being raised to challenge the electoral victory of Senator Ifeanyi Okowa in the just concluded governorship elections in Delta state.
Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor-elect, Delta State.
The ...
Delta: Okowa Douses Anxiety, Says I’ll be Fair in Appointments
Omos Oyibode, Asaba
As politicians in Delta employ various strategies to influence the incoming government for political appointments, Delta State Governor-Elect, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that appointments into his cabinet would favour all Deltans, stressing that his administration would be an all encompassing government that would operate on a pan Delta agenda.
Senator Ifeanyi Okowa
Okowa ...
Rivers Guber: Amaechi Will Be Vindicated – APC …..Wike and PDP’s celebration premature
By Nwaorgu Faustinus
The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has predicted that the State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, will be eventually vindicated in his efforts as the State APC Leader to upturn the declaration of Chief Nyesome Wike of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as winner of the April 11 ...
Bayelsa: The beautiful bride and the Battleground State
By Rev. (Prof.) Alex O. Akpodiete Atawa
I was sitting perusing the dailies, while at the same time following the updates on the supplemental governorship elections results in Imo, Abia and Taraba States when I came across an article in Sunday Leadership titled: Bayelsa 2016: Uncertainty Surrounds Dickson.
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State.
The writer seems ...
Kebbi House Of Assembly Speaker Hassan Shalla Impeached
The Speaker of the Kebbi State House of Assembly, Hassan Shalla, has been impeached for alleged breach of trust and embezzlement of allowances of his colleagues.
Usman Dakingari, Kebbi State Governor.
In the absence of the speaker and his deputy, the sitting, where the speaker was removed, was chaired by a member, Abubakar Sabo, representing Birnin ...
Fresh plot to remove Mu’azu uncovered
Aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party members may be hatching a fresh plot to sack the party’s National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu and members of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC).
The fresh plot is to remove Mu’a zu and members of the NWC before the end of the tenure of President Goodluck Jonathan on May 29.
The plot involves mandating ...
UDUAGHAN’S THIRD TERM OR OKOWA’S TENURE?
By Bobson Gbinije
“It is not the glory of Caesar that matters now
It is the welfare of Rome.”
- Cicero
“A politician imitates the devil, as the devil
Imitates a cannon: wheresoever he
Comes to do mischief, he comes
With his backside towards you.”
- John Webster
Under comparative analysis and the blitzkrieg of intellectual anatomy, the dynamics and calculus of leadership ...
Igbuya Remains Our Candidate for Speaker’s Position – Anioma Leaders
By Njamanze Fidel
Anioma Leaders on Sunday described Delta State House of Assembly Majority Leader, Chief Monday Ovwigho Igbuya as a focused, visionary and steadfast leader, pledging to work for his emergence as the next speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly.
Hon. Monday Igbuya
An online news report made available to journalists by Mr Henry ...
Rivers APC reprimands Mrs. Khan for sabotaging quest for justice at election tribunal
Nwaorgu Faustinus
The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has reprimanded the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mrs. Gesila Khan, for blocking the party from having access to evidence of monumental rigging of the March 28 and April 11 elections in the State with a view to seeking redress at the Election ...
DACEMCPS HOUSING UNITS TO BOOST ECONOMY OF OIL RICH WARRI—IKUTEGBE
OGHENETEJIRI NYERHOVWO
Delta Area Chevron Employees Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society (DACEMPCS) Housing Estate with one hundred and eighty units would boost the economy of Delta State in general and Effurun-Warri metropolis in particular when completed and ready for use in 2017.
This was disclosed by Sir David Edafe Ikutegbe, immediate past president, DACEMPCS during the ground-breaking ceremony of ...
Rochas Okorocha Declared Winner Of Imo State Governorship Election
The incumbent Governor Rochas Okorocha has secured victory after yesterday’s supplementary polls to conclude the inconclusive governorship election in Imo State.
Governor Rochas Okorocha
Mr. Okorocha, who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has beaten Emeka Ihedioha, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by 416,996 votes. Mr. Ihedioha scored ...